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Creating Healthy Schools and Communities of Erie and Cattaraugus Counties

School Wellness Newsletter

September 2024

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CHSC End of Year Report 2024

We are proud of all that we've accomplished in year 3 of the grant and are looking forward to continuing this work through year 4 of the CHSC grant.

NYS Department of Health Grant initiative awarded to Erie 1 BOCES to reduce the risk of chronic disease by increasing demand for and access to healthy food and physical activity. The grant period is June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2026. Our goal is to create meaningful sustainable change through the implementation of policy, systems, and environmental improvements.

Erie 1 BOCES is proud to collaborate with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County and GObike Buffalo to lead the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities (CHSC) initiative, a coordinated, multi-sector plan designed to increase demand for and access to healthy, affordable foods and opportunities for daily physical activity in high need school districts and their associated communities.

The school districts currently involved in this effort are Salamanca, Randolph, West Valley, Springville Griffith Institute, Lackawanna, Cheektowaga Central, Cheektowaga Sloan and Maryvale. We are also working in Cattaraugus County, the Town of Cheektowaga, the City of Lackawanna and the Town of Springville.

Read the full report to hear about the work we've been doing:

  • Encouraging farm to school initiatives; 
  • Getting children in daycares and pre-k increased opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity;
  • Complete streets projects and policy work that helps create safer streets for all users and;
  • Employee wellness initiatives.
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CHSC supported PD for 2024-2025

All of these PDs are offered for no cost to CHSC districts. Please sign up early to help us plan!

​​​​​​Registration links:

Play Workshop Series

October 3, 2024- full day

December 5, 2024- morning

March 27, 2025- morning

Registration link:

Math and Movement: Kinesthetic Strategies to Boost Math Outcomes for K-5 Educators

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Consortiums

Health and Physical Education Director's Consortium

Ongoing professional development for health and PE directors. The focus is on sharing best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment in Health and Physical Education. Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to; State Education updates, training, and deliverables (pre-assessments, data target setting, technology training, as it relates to PE and health, etc.) adapted PE and regulations.

  • October 2, 2024
  • December 12, 2024
  • February 27, 2025
  • May 15, 2025

Health Education Teacher Consortium

Ongoing professional development for health education teachers. The focus is on sharing best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment in Health Education. Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to; State Education Updates, training, and deliverables (pre-assessments, data target setting, technology training, SEL, etc.)

  • November 14, 2024
  • April 30, 2025

Physical Education Teacher Consortium

Ongoing professional development for physical education teachers. The focus is on sharing best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment in Physical Education. Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to; State Education Updates, training, and deliverables (pre-assessments, data target setting, technology training, mental health standards, and SEL as it relates to physical education, etc.).

  • November 6, 2024
  • April 23, 2025

CHSC Project funding for 2024-2025

   This year we are allocating funding for school-building wellness projects. A list of wellness project ideas is provided in the CHSC activity menu below.  Each building level wellness committee can submit up to 2 wellness project proposals. The deadline for submitting project proposals is November 27, 2024. CHSC school coordinators will then purchase the equipment to implement your plan and have it delivered to your building. 

2024 School Wellness Summer Symposium

SNAP-Ed New York’s School Wellness Summer Symposium was held on August 6 - 8, 2024 and brought together (virtually) school staff and administration from across NY to inspire, educate and engage. The recordings from the webinars are now available!

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Recordings from the 2021, 2022 and 2023 School Wellness Summer Symposiums are available. 

School Wellness events

If you are holding a wellness event and would like to borrow our smoothie bike, giant spinning wheel or our new class set of heart rate monitors, please reach out early so we can schedule it! 

Please send us pictures of wellness events and activities, we love including them in newsletters, sharing them on social media and seeing all the great work that you are doing.

Resource of the Month: Brain Breaks for High Schoolers

Brain breaks can prevent older students from feeling overwhelmed and provide space for reflection, joy, and connection during a packed school day. They’re also a crucial part of the learning process. Check out this article for 17 brain break ideas geared to teenagers!
 

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