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Overcoming Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence
Create and implement school policies that support wellness and fitness for our children's health and success!
This timely and authoritative overview by an educator and a physician helps principals navigate their way through the contradictory recommendations confronting them. The authors target the "do's," "don'ts," and "can'ts" that school leaders need to know when developing school policies for wellness, nutrition, fitness, and health. Student surveys and guides to the best research accompany core chapters on:
- Dealing with childhood obesity in schools
- Facilitating the principal's role as an agent of change
- Understanding the barriers that interfere with change
- Developing school wellness plans
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781412916660
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2006
- Page Count: 168
- Publication date: November 02, 2006
Price: $30.95