This is an example of a wellness plan to benefit the school and it's community. The goal is to improve education through improving the health of the students, employees, and members of the community.

1. VISTA HEIGHTS
MIDDLE SCHOOL
WELLNESS PROGRAM
BJORN ERIK FREEMAN
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
NOVEMBER 23, 2016

2. PROGRAM GOALS
1. Improve student performance in school by
improving health habits.
2. Improve the overall health of employees and
community members.
1. Improve employee productivity.
2. Improve the health of the community.
3. Lower health care costs.
4. Improve quality of life.
3. Change the school environment to support
healthier decision making.

3. ACTION PLAN TASKS
1. Policy changes
2. Environmental changes
3. Fitness and nutrition programs
4. School and community events

4. POLICY CHANGES
Responsibilities
-Administrators, community representatives, USOE, and teacher collaboration.
-Ensure quality health and physical education is being taught.
-Variety of classes in addition to regular P.E. including dance, aerobics, fitness.
-Opportunities for before and after school physical education classes for
employees and students.
-Provide 8 minute walk breaks during regular education classes.
-Collaboration with Insurance companies for financial incentives for participation.
Resources
-District employees, School administrators, teachers, and other staff, community
members insurance. companies, and the Utah State Office of Education (USOE).
-Researched methods and ideas from the community.
-Time to meet with the group to discuss effective policy.
Timeline
These new policies will be Implemented by the beginning of the 2017-2018 school
year.

5. SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT CHANGES
Responsibilities
-Administrators, cafeteria workers, school nurses and community
member collaboration.
-Create a budget to buy heathier foods including more whole
grains, fruits and vegetables.
-Provide healthier options in vending machines.
-Time to plan, explore healthy and affordable options.
Resources
-Administrators, cafeteria employees, local businesses and
vendors.
Timeline
-Implement within 2 months.

6. FITNESS AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Responsibilities
-Administrators, teachers, other staff, and community member
collaboration.
-Provide after school fitness and nutrition classes for staff and
community members.
-Provide a variety of after school physical activities for students.
Resources
-Fitness teachers for adult and student classes.
-Facilities at the school which include a gym, fields, a fitness room
and a dance room.
-Money to pay for materials and fitness teachers provided by
donations and grants.
Timeline
Implement by the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year.

7. SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
Responsibilities
-Administrators, school staff, and community member
collaboration.
-5k fun run to bring the community, students, and school
staff together.
Resources
-Community, school staff.
-Social media and flyers to advertise.
-School announcements.
-business donations and sponsors.
-Race equipment, flags, cones, starting line, map, timers.
Timeline
Implement by April when the event will be held

8. LEADERSHIP ENGAGEMENT
Leaders will be heavily involved in the process by:
-Following the servant leader style by we being aware of
who we are and how we impact others (Keith, 2016).
-Leaders will take an active role in developing policy,
implementing classes, and changing the school
environment.
-Leaders will collaborate with teachers, staff, community
members, and our students for effective ideas.
-Leaders will be involved in classes and community events
to encourage and inspire others.
-Leaders will allow teachers to use their own creativity to
create productive classes and support them through
participation in the program (Keith, 2016).

9. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
School staff
- School staff including teachers, office staff, lunch workers, and sanitation staff will
be involved in planning and implementing the program.
- Staff will also be encouraged and given incentives to participate in classes.
- Staff will also have a voice in the policy and environmental changes.
Members of the community
- Members of the community will be involved in planning.
- They will be encouraged to participate in after school classes, and may be used as
teachers.
Students
-Students will have a voice in what they would like to see implemented for classes.
When students are aware of the program and it’s purpose they are more likely to
participate (Hoelscher & Moag-Stahlberg, 2016).
- Programs focused on wellness policy implementation is associated with positive
changes in student behaviors (Hoelscher & Moag-Stahlberg, 2016).

10. CURRICULUM CONTENTGoals
- Participants will make goals based on what they want to accomplish.
- SMART – Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely.
Nutrition
-Energy balance – weight loss comes by balancing calories.
-6 Nutrients – Focus on eating a balance of the six nutrients
-Tips for a healthy diet – Find foods they enjoy and make an individual plan.
Fitness
Aerobic exercise – For building endurance and burning fat.
Anaerobic exercise – For building strength and boosting metabolism
Variety in activities – Build a plan with different activities to make it fun and
challenging.
Varying your routine – Understand homeostasis and achieving more balance in work
outs.
Tips for success – maximize workouts by combining aerobic with anaerobic exercise.
Individualize workouts to help them achieve their goals.

11. STRATEGY IDEAS
Personal lifestyle choices
-Help people understand that they don’t have to make major changes in their lives, and they don’t
have to give up things they enjoy.
Family relations and support
-Encourage people to bring friends and family to be part of their support system.
Organizational strategies
-Change policies and the environment to support healthy choices and make time for more activity.
-Provide incentives for people to participate in these programs.
Benefits
-As part of our class we will help change attitudes to help people understand that they can all
achieve their goals. Those who perceive more benefits and fewer barriers exercise more regularly
(Thomson & Buckley, 2016).
Barriers
-The two main barriers for people not to exercise are time and fatigue (Thomson & Buckley, 2016).
-Providing time for employees and students to get more exercise during the day.
-Help them develop good nutrition and exercise habits, which will help them to feel more
energized.

12. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTFeedback
- We look for consistent feedback from all stakeholders which include
students, employees, and members of the community to see how the
program is going and to see how we can continue to make
improvements.
-We will seek feedback from people who are not involved in the
program to see what kinds of things would motivate them to get
involved with the program.
Evaluation
-We will have ongoing assessments to see what adjustments we need
to make to improve the program.
Flexibility
-We will look for ways that we can make the program better, and seek
suggestions from those who both embrace the program, and from
those who have a lot of criticisms, and we will look at both views as
important to the progress of the program.

13. COMMUNICATION PLAN
Employees
-Get information from employees to see what types of activities they would
be interested in participating in.
-Use email, social media, meetings to communicate the plan to
employees.
Students
-Get information from the students to see what types of things they would
be interested in participating in.
-Morning announcements, Flyers, student council, and Home room to
describe the program to students.
Community
-Get information from members of the community to see what types of
activities they would be interested in participating in.
-Use email, social media, meetings to communicate the plan to
employees.
-Also use flyers to be sent home with students to get the word out to their
parents.

14. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Environmental changes
The first phase of implementation will be to make environmental changes.
- We will use students input on what healthy foods they would like to see
available.
- Healthier options in vending machines.
- Breakfast and lunches will include more fruits, vegetables, and whole
grains.
- Goal is to implement these changes within 2 months.
Fitness classes
The next phase will be to implement fitness classes.
-After finding out what interest there is for classes and interest for teaching
them we will start implementing those classes.
- The Goal is to fully implement them by the beginning of the 2017-2018
school year.
Policy changes
-Administrators, teachers, community members will begin looking at policies
that prevent healthy habits, and create policies that will support healthy
habits.
-Goal is to implement them by the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year.

15. REFERENCES
Keith, K. M. (2016). Key Practices of Servant Leadership.
http://www.toservefirst.com/key-practices-of-servant-leadership.html
Servant-Leadership (2016). http://www.greenleaf.org.uk/about.php
Hoelscher, D. M., Moag-Stahlberg, A., Ellis, K., Vandewater, E. A., Malkani, R. (2016).
Evaluation of a student participatory, low-intensity program to improve school wellness
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Thomson, R. L., Buckley, J. D., Brinkworth, G. D. (2016). Perceived exercise barriers are reduced
and benefits are improved with lifestyle modification in overweight and obese women with
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