SPARK - School Specialty. Physical Education & Wellness

Ignite a Healthy Environment Program:

SPARK is proud to introduce you to Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC), our exclusive Healthy School Environment (and Nutrition Services) partner. To learn more about HKC, Click Here.

Whether your school has just started down the path to wellness or has already organized a School Health Advisory Council and completed the School Health Index, SPARK/HKC will assess your progress and work with you to create a healthy environment that changes the behavior of your students and staff.

Audience: Classroom teachers, physical education specialists, food service staff, administrators/directors, nurses, parent leaders, student advisors (school wellness committee/school health advisory councils members)

Program Components:

1.  Formative Assessment

The SPARK/HKC process begins with a thorough analysis of your current CSH program, and an effort to learn more about your particular needs, challenges and barriers.

Our content experts use this data to work with you and develop a vision, plan, and timeline; then recommend targeted resources and services that align with your goals.

2.  Training

SPARK/HKC offers an Ignite a Healthy Environment workshop to put your vision into action! The 1-day (6-hr), on-site training introduces your staff and community members to CSH concepts and components through an interactive, team-building style.  The training also addresses what SPARK has identified as the "3 P’s" of CSH development:

These personal workshops don't just talk about the why and what, they show your staff HOW to facilitate positive, lasting change via simple, manageable actions!

Topics covered include:

• Best practices for creating an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity
• Successful policies and protocols
• Ways to increase awareness
• Advocacy for health
• Ways to utilize the environment to teach/reinforce health and wellness behaviors
• Skill building for making healthy choices a part of daily life

Professional trainers from SPARK (a PE/PA expert) and HKC (a Registered Dietitian) team up to lead these workshops!

3.  Follow-Up Support

For a program to work and last, extensive, ongoing consultation must be provided. SPARK demonstrates commitment to follow-up via their unique “SPARK Stars” institutionalization model, by offering FREE, lifetime support to each curriculum/material purchaser and/or workshop attendee through 800 number and e-mail consultation, a monthly webinar series, social networking opportunities and an informational monthly eNewsletter. For more information on the FREE lifetime support SPARK provides with any program, Click Here.