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U.S. Department of Education PEP Report Update Year 2

Chicago Public Schools received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to implement the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP). This effort seeks to advance and institutionalize changes to CPS’s existing physical education program. PEP will enable the district to address the areas for growth identified through school health inventories and CPS wellness assessments, including meeting state learning standards and physical activity (PA) time requirements, offering consistent professional development and resources tailored to the needs of PE teachers, and building infrastructure to collect and assess data related to PE and student physical activity. PEP will also help the district maintain and increase attention to the importance of a high-quality PE programing for positive physical health, behavior and academic outcomes to ensure that all CPS students have the knowledge, skills and confidence for academic success and lifelong health.

CLOCC is serving as the evaluators of the PEP project. The evaluation is assessing the PEP project on reaching its goals around individual, student level physical activity acquisition and fruit and vegetable consumption. Interim findings on specific student level outcomes, requested by the U.S. Department of Education, from the first four rounds of data collection are included in these reports.

The goal of this effort is to collect an adequately powered sample of student-level data regarding physical activity and nutrition behaviors from students attending CPS elementary and high schools implementing PEP. Data is collected from a random sample of students attending participating schools in the spring and fall of 2014, spring, fall and winter of 2015 and the spring of 2016. Approximately 477 students are recruited at each time point.

All participating students are asked to wear a pedometer for one week, complete a survey addressing nutrition and physical activity opportunities and behaviors, and complete 5 of the Fitnessgram fitness measures. A 3-day physical activity recall is completed by students in 5^th grade and above.

Results from year one can be found here.

Finding Highlight:
In addition to the data presented in these reports, we found a statistically significant improvement from baseline to year one in the proportion of students which obtained 60 minutes or more of moderate/vigorous physical activity, increasing from 12.4% at baseline to 25.0% in year one (p<0.001).  Similarly, the proportion of students which obtained 60 minutes or more of moderate/vigorous physical activity was higher at year two, compared to baseline (from 12.4% to 32.0%; p<0.00001). This finding that the proportion meeting the physical activity goal is higher after the initiative is an encouraging outcome for the intervention which targets increased PE time and quality.  The proportion of students with Healthy Fitness Zone scores was not significantly different between baseline and year one or year two (p=0.34 from baseline to year one; p=0.75 from baseline to year two).  Changes in healthy eating habits were not significant (p=0.92 from baseline to year one; p=0.28 from baseline to year two) 

University of Illinois Extension

http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/state/nutrition.html

Multiple facts, guidelines, and ideas for working and eating with children.

Updated CLOCC Q1 March 11 2015 Meeting Agenda

Agenda for CLOCC Quarterly Meeting, March 11, 2015

Voices for Healthy Kids

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Advocate/Voices-for-Healthy-Kids_UCM_453195_SubHomePage.jsp

American Heart Association in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Walking and Bicycling Resources

http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/mobility/walking-and-bicycling

View and print maps of the walking area.

Walking and Bicycling Safety

http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/mobility/walking-and-bicycling/safety

Walking Information

http://www.walkinginfo.org/library/details.cfm?id=12

Welcome to School Lunch

https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/tn/dmp_welcome.pdf

School lunch food identification and taste test activity

Westside Healthy Start Breastfeeding Support Model

Sandra Morales, CLC, Breastfeeding Support Counselor for the Westside Healthy Start program at Access Community Health Network discusses important the role of a breastfeeding counselor in affirming, educating, and supporting patients in breastfeeding.

What’s in Breastmilk?

What’s in Breastmilk? Guide—part of Breastfeeding Toolkit.