SPARK Physical Education Curriculum

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.  Materials

Wellness Solutions Toolkit-includes 3 Take Healthy Action Team Guidebooks and a set of 7 Healthy Works booklets.

Click Here for more information about this toolkit.

3.  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!

Training outcomes include:

• Wellness council capacity building
• Making wellness policies real world and actionable
• Building more minutes of motion and nutrition education and messages into the school day
• Engagin students, staff, and families to be part of the healthy changes
• Assisting wellness teams with assessment, action planning and evaluation for sustained results

Professional trainer from SPARK (a PE/PA expert) or HKC (a Registered Dietitian) lead these workshops!

4.  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.