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5 The Potential of Health Sector Partners to Contribute to the Implementation of the Best Evidence About What Supports Educational Attainment
5 The Potential of Health Sector Partners to Contribute to the Implementation of the Best Evidence About What Supports Educational Attainment
Pages 53-68
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Hunt said that CDC now has two units that focus specifically on school health: her branch, which concentrates on physical activity, nutrition, and the management of chronic conditions in schools, and the division of Adolescent School Health, headed by Captain Stephanie Zaza. MAKING HEALTH HAPPEN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS To begin his presentation, Bender explained that the NEA is a member-driven organization and that any program that the NEA runs must 53
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He said that the interventions are science-based and developed with constant feedback from the NEA members to ensure that any intervention links educator priorities with health programming. The first example of such a program, he said, is Breakfast in the Classroom, which has received generous funding from the Walmart Foundation and is being carried out in collaboration with the School Nutrition Foundation, the Food Research and Action Council, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation.
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The second lesson is that it is necessary to understand and access the union's governance and communications infrastructure as a means of aiding the development and implementation of any initiative. Another program run by the NEA Health Information Network, this one in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente, is intended to improve school employee wellness, which CDC has defined as a key component of a comprehensive approach to a healthy school environment.
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"That was my first introduction to social disparities in health and the impact of education," Dickard said. He cited the 2012 statistics from a recently released CDC School Health Policies and Practices Study, which found that 60 percent of elementary school districts mandated that schools provide recess, while another 32 percent recommended that schools offer recess to their students.
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The department is developing tools to help local public health departments, pediatricians, and others get engaged in conducting developmental screening. Dickard also said that CDC would soon release its report on health and academic achievement, which will serve as a resource for local educators and health officials who want to make the case that health is important to the education sector.
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Data show that a disruptive child in a poor environment is at increased risk of having his or her parenting disrupted, Brotman said, and when parenting is disrupted, it negatively affects the parent's ability to create a nurturing relationship with the child and makes it more difficult for the parent to engage in effective behavioral management and to be involved in early learning activities. All of these effects in turn disrupt early childhood development in terms of behavior and learning.
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She reported findings from a randomized controlled trial conducted in highly disadvantaged minority and immigrant-dense neighborhoods with high school graduation rates of approximately 50 percent and in which half of students in district elementary schools scored below grade level on thirdgrade tests of reading or math. The trial enrolled nearly 90 percent of the pre-kindergarten population over 4 years in 10 schools.
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ParentCorps engages diverse parents as partners and cre ates networks of knowledgeable, motivated, and empowered parents throughout the school community. It builds on the strengths of culturally diverse students and families and includes tailored proactive strategies to address the needs of students who are behaviorally dysregulated.
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. The data show that relative to education as usual, children in schools with ParentCorps had greater reading achievement test scores in kindergarten, and this effect was still apparent in second grade.
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Figure 5-3 ment. Children who were in the ParentCorps school during the fourth year of implementation and whose parents participated in five or more group sessions had the largest gains, which suggests that ParentCorps has the potential to close the achievement gap for poor and minority children (Brotman et al., 2013)
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Figure 5-4 54% Obesity Rate (BMI ≥ 95th) at Age 8 25% 23% 24% 19% NYC Black and NYC Black and High Self-Regulation Low Self-Regulation Low Self-Regulation Latino Public School Latino Children at Age 4 at Age 4 at Age 4 Population from Control Schools CONTROL CONTROL INTERVENTION FIGURE 5-5 ParentCorps impact on obesity at age 8.
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Dickard replied that many of the topics discussed at the workshop, including vision screening and asthma management, are matters of state law rather than federal mandates and that this might be a place for education and health to work together. For example, approximately 30 states currently require vision screening of school children, and the nation's optometrists, through their professional society, are working to encourage the remaining states to mandate vision screening for all students.
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Pamela Russo from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked Bender if he could provide advice on how to approach local NEA affiliates to help connect with schools. Bender replied that it is best done on a one-to-one basis.
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Department of Agriculture has a program to promote summer meals in order to overcome that nutrition deficit and also that many school districts offer summer reading programs to keep children engaged in learning activities. Bender added that there has been a spontaneous effort among teachers, working together with local food banks, to provide students with weekend backpacks filled with non-perishable food so they have something to eat over the weekend, an idea that could perhaps be carried over to summer break.
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"If we move too quickly into different systems and with different people, we are going to lose all of the effects," she said. "We are sure about that." As a result, ParentCorps is for the moment keeping its focus on the prekindergarten and kindergarten populations in urban schools, but rotman B added that there are incredible opportunities for others to develop similar programs for daycare settings, primary care practices, and other community settings.
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His team's approach has been to prescreen schools with the help of the NEA state affiliates to identify those with the greatest chances of success and then motivate that select group to complete the application process. "Our solution to the problem is to try to reduce the number of rejections and frustration because it does hurt the program long term."
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