• assignment of employees to specific tasks and responsibilities;
• instructions relating to the use of alarm systems and signals.  If combination visual and auditory warning devices do not exist, the plan shall include specific provisions for warning individuals with hearing impairments;
• information concerning methods of fire containment;
• systems for notification of appropriate persons and agencies;
• information concerning the location and use of firefighting equipment;
• specification of evacuation routes and procedures;
• posting of plans and procedures at suitable locations throughout the facility;
• evacuation drills which include the actual evacuation of individuals to safe areas;
• an evaluation for each evacuation drill.

The District considers child exposure to adverse childhood experience, child mental health, and suicide as serious matters which impact learning opportunities for students, classroom, and instructional challenges for staff and ultimately, if not addressed, can lead to lifelong struggles, attempted suicide and loss of life. The District will follow all laws and regulations regarding the training required to inform staff of identification and referral to services for students with mental health challenges. 

The District shall provide suicide prevention and postvention training and training on the identification of adverse childhood experiences and strategies to mitigate toxic stress response for all school personnel who hold a license, certificate, authorization or statement of recognition issued by the board of educational examiners and who have regular contact with students in kindergarten through grade twelve. The training shall begin July 1, 2019, and occur annually between July 1 and June 30, thereafter.  The content of the training shall be based on nationally recognized best practices.

“Adverse childhood experience” means a potentially traumatic event occurring in childhood that can have negative, lasting effects on an individual’s health and well-being.

“Postvention” means the provision of crisis intervention, support, and assistance for those affected by a suicide or suicide attempt to prevent further risk of suicide.

The suicide prevention and postvention training shall be evidence-based, evidence-supported and be at least one hour in length.  The content of the training shall be based on nationally recognized best practices.

The identification of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and strategies to mitigate toxic stress response training shall be evidence-based, evidence-supported, and be at least one hour in length or as determined by the Superintendent. The content of the training shall be based on nationally recognized best practices.

 

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES

Health services are an integral part of comprehensive school improvement, assisting all students to increase learning, achievement, and performance. Health services coordinate and support existing programs to assist each student in achievement of an optimal state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Student health services ensure continuity and create linkages between school, home, and community service providers. The District’s comprehensive school improvement plan, needs, and resources determine the linkages.

1. Student Health Services - Each school building may develop a customized student health services program within comprehensive school improvement based on its unique needs and resources. Scientific advances, laws, and school improvement necessitate supports to students with health needs to receive their education program.

    

   1. Supports to improve student achievement include:
      1. qualified health personnel;
      2. school superintendent, school nurse, and school health team working collaboratively;
      3. family and community involvement;
      4. optimal student health services program with commitment to its continuing improvement.
   2. Components provided within a coordinated school health program include:
      1. health services;
      2. health education;
      3. nutrition;
      4. physical education and activity;
      5. healthy, safe environment;
      6. counseling, psychological, and social services;
      7. staff wellness;
      8. family and community involvement.

2. Student Health Services Essential Functions
   1. Identify student health needs:
      1. Provide individual initial and annual health assessments.
      2. Provide needed health screenings.
      3. Maintain and update confidential health records;
      4. Communicate (written, oral, electronic) health needs as consistent with confidentiality laws.
   2. Facilitate student access to physical and mental health services:
      1. Link students to community resources and monitor follow through.
      2. Promote increased access and referral to primary health care financial resources such as Medicaid, HAWK-I, social security, and community health clinics.
      3. Encourage appropriate use of health care.
   3. Provide for student health needs related to educational achievement:
      1. Manage chronic and acute illnesses.
      2. Provide special health procedures and medication including delegation, training, and supervision of qualified designated school personnel.
      3. Develop, implement, evaluate, and revise individual health plans (IHPs) for all students with special health needs according to mandates in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), and American with Disabilities Act (ADA).
      4. Provide urgent and emergency care for individual and group illness and injury.
      5. Prevent and control communicable disease and monitor immunizations.
      6. Promote optimal mental health.
      7. Promote a safe school facility and a safe school environment.
      8. Participate in and attend team meetings as a team member and health consultant.
   4. Promote student health, well-being, and safety to foster healthy living:
      1. Provide developmentally appropriate health education and health counseling for individuals and groups.
      2. Encourage injury and disease prevention practices.
      3. Promote personal and public health practices.
      4. Provide health promotion and injury and disease prevention education.
   5. Plan and develop the student health services program collaboratively with the Superintendent, school nurse, and school health team:
      1. Gather and interpret data to evaluate needs and performance.
      2. Establish a wellness committee and school health team.
      3. Develop health procedures and guidelines.
      4. Collaborate with staff, families, and community.
      5. Maintain and update confidential student school health records.
      6. Coordinate program with all school health components.
      7. Coordinate with school improvement.
      8. Evaluate and revise the health service program to meet changing needs.
      9. Organize scheduling and direct health services staff.
      10. Coordinate information and program delivery within the school and between school and major constituents.
      11. Provide health services by qualified health professionals to effectively deliver services, including multiple levels of school health expertise such as registered nurses, physicians, and advanced registered nurse practitioners.
      12. Provide for professional development for school health services staff.

3. Expanded Health Services ​

 

The Board recognizes that some special education students need special health services during the school day. These students shall receive special health services in conjunction with their individualized education program.

The Superintendent, in conjunction with licensed health personnel, shall establish administrative regulations for the implementation of this policy.

1. Definitions

• Interpretation or intervention,
• Administration of health procedures and health care, or
• Use of a health device to compensate for the reduction or loss of a body function.

• Physically present;
• Available at the same site; or
• Available on call.

2. Licensed health personnel will provide special health services under the auspices of the school.  Duties of the licensed personnel include the duty to:

• Participate as a member of the education team;
• Provide the health assessment;
• Plan, implement, and evaluate the written individual health plan;
• Plan, implement, and evaluate special emergency health services;
• Serve as liaison and encourage participation and communication with health service agencies and individuals providing health care;
• Provide health consultation, counseling, and instruction with the eligible student, the student's parent, and the staff in cooperation and conjunction with the prescriber;
• Maintain a record of special health services. The documentation includes the eligible student's name, special health service, prescriber or person authorizing, date and time, signature and title of the person providing the special health service, and any unusual circumstances in the provision of such services;
• Report unusual circumstances to the parent, school administration, and prescriber;
• Assign and delegate to, instruct, provide technical assistance, and supervise qualified designated personnel; and
• Update knowledge and skills to meet special health service needs.

3. Prior to the provision of special health services the following will be on file:

• Written statement by the prescriber detailing the specific method and schedule of the special health service, when indicated;
• Written statement by the student's parent requesting the provision of the special health services;
• Written report of the preplanning staffing or meeting of the education team; and
• Written individual health plan available in the health record and integrated into the IEP or IFSP.

4. Licensed health personnel, in collaboration with the education team, will determine the special health services to be provided and the qualifications of individuals performing the special health services. The documented rationale will include the following:

• Analysis and interpretation of the special health service needs, health status stability, complexity of the service, predictability of the service outcome and risk of improperly performed service;
• Determination that the special health service, task, procedure or function is part of the person's job description;
• Determination of the assignment and delegation based on the student's needs;
• Review of the designated person's competency; and
• Determination of initial and ongoing level of supervision required to ensure quality services.

5. Licensed health personnel will supervise the special health services, define the level of supervision, and document the supervision.
6. Licensed health personnel will instruct qualified designated personnel to deliver and perform special health services contained in the eligible individual health plan. Documentation of instruction and periodic updates are on file at school.
7. Parents will provide the usual equipment, supplies, and necessary maintenance for such. The equipment is stored in a secure area. The personnel responsible for the equipment are designated in the individual health plan. The individual health plan will designate the role of the school, parents, and others in the provision, supply, storage, and maintenance of necessary equipment.

The District will implement a protocol to respond to life-threatening allergic reactions (anaphylaxis).  The school will maintain the medication necessary to apply the protocol in each facility. This protocol would apply to any individual present in the facility both while school is in session and during any school-sponsored extracurricular activities.

The District school nurse or other trained and authorized personnel may administer an epinephrine auto-injector from the school’s supply to a student or other individual if reasonably and in good faith believe the student or individual is having an anaphylactic reaction.  Individuals authorized to administer the epinephrine will complete the appropriate medication training and be signed off by the school nurse.

The District will obtain and keep on file a prescription and standing order for the stock epinephrine from a licensed health care professional.  A new prescription will be obtained annually.

The District will store the epinephrine auto-injectors in a secured, room temperature area that remains accessible in an emergency within each school building.  The medication will be checked monthly to ensure stability and effectiveness.

In the event of the stock epinephrine being used, the “Report of Stock Epinephrine Administration” form will be filled out and submitted to the state of Iowa.

• Parent has provided a signed, dated authorization to administer medication and/or provide the health service.
• The medication is in the original, labeled container as dispenses or the manufacturer’s labeled container.
• The medication label contains the student’s name, name of the medication, directions for use, and date.
• Authorization is renewed annually and immediately when the parent notifies the school that changes are necessary.

1. Medication must be in the original container, from the pharmacy with the directions clearly stated. This serves two purposes: signifies permission from the doctor and includes directions from the pharmacist. Pharmacists will supply another labeled container for school upon request when the prescription is filled. NO BAGGIES OR ENVELOPES WILL BE ACCEPTED AT SCHOOL.

2. Parents/guardians must give written authorization for the administration of the medication.

1. In each building in which a full-time registered nurse is assigned, access to medication locked in a designated space shall be under the authority of the nurse.
2. In each building in which a less than full-time registered nurse is assigned, access to the medication shall be under the authority of the principal.

DISEASE *Immunization is available	Usual Interval Between Exposure and First Symptoms of Disease	MAIN SYMPTOMS	Minimum Exclusion From School
CHICKENPOX*	13 to 17 days	Mild symptoms and fever. Pocks are "blistery". Develop scabs, most on covered parts of the body.	7 days from onset of pocks or until pocks become dry.
CONJUNCTIVITIS (PINK EYE)	24 to 72 hours	Tearing, redness and puffy lids, eye discharge.	until 24 hours after treatment begins or physician approves readmission.
ERYTHEMIA INFECTIOSUM (5th DISEASE)	4 to 20 days	Usual age 5-14 years - unusual in adults. Brief prodrome of low-grade fever followed by Erythemia (slapped cheek) appearance on cheeks, lace-like rash on extremities lasting a few days to 3 weeks. Rash seems to recur.	After diagnosis no exclusion from school.
GERMAN MEASLES* (RUBELLA)	14 to 23 days	Usually mild. Enlarged glands in neck and behind ears. Brief red rash.	7 days from onset of rash. Keep away from pregnant women.
HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS	2 to 4 days	Fever, vomiting, lethargy, stiff neck and back.	Until physician permits return.
HEPATITIS A	Variable - 15 to 50 (average 28 to 30 days)	Abdominal pain, nausea, usually fever. Skin and eyes may or may not turn yellow.	14 days from onset of clinical disease and at least 7 days from onset of jaundice.
IMPETIGO	1 to 3 days	Inflamed sores with pus.	48 hours after antibiotic therapy started or until physician permits return.
MEASLES*	10 days to fever, 14 days to rash	Begins with fever, conjunctivitis, runny nose, cough, then blotchy red rash.	4 days from onset of rash.
MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS	2 to 10 days (commonly 3 to 4 days)	Headache, nausea, stiff neck, fever.	Until physician permits return.
MUMPS*	12 to 25 (commonly 18) days	Fever, swelling and tenderness of glands at angle of jaw.	9 days after onset of swollen glands or until swelling disappears.
PEDICULOSIS (HEAD/BODY LICE)	7 days for eggs to hatch	Lice and nits (eggs) in hair.	May return after proof of adequate treatment to kill lice and nits.
RINGWORM OF SCALP	10 to 14 days	Scaly patch, usually ring-shaped, on scalp.	No exclusion from school. Exclude from gymnasium, swimming pools, contact sports.
SCABIES	2 to 6 weeks initial exposure; 1 to 4 days reexposure	Tiny burrows in skin caused by mites.	Until 24 hours after treatment.
SCARLET FEVER SCARLATINA STREP THROAT	1 to 3 days	Sudden onset, vomiting, sore throat, fever, later fine rash (not on face). Rash usually with first infection.	24 hours after antibiotics started and no fever.
WHOOPING COUGH* (PERTUSSIS)	7 to 10 days	Head cold, slight fever, cough, characteristic whoop after w weeks.	5 days after start of antibiotic treatment.

 

 

REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES LIST

 

While the District is not responsible for reporting, the following infectious diseases are required to be reported to the state and local public health offices:

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)	Mumps
Anthrax	Pertussis
Botulism	Plague
Brucellosis (Brucella)	Poliomyelitis
Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter)	Psittacosis
Chlamydia	Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Cholera	Rubella (including congenital)
Cryptosporidiosis	Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Cyclospora	Salmonellosis (Salmonella)
Diphtheria	Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Escherichia coli Shiga toxin-producing and related diseases (including HUS and TTP	Shigellosis (Shigella)
Giardiasis (Giardia)	Smallpox
Gonorrhea	Syphilis
Haemophilus influenzae Type B	Tetanus
Hantavirus Syndromes	Tickborne diseases (includes anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever)
Hepatitis, viral (A, B, C, D, E)	Ruberculosis, extrapulmonary
Legionellosis (Legionella)	Tularemai
Hansen's Disease (leprosy)	Typhoid fever
Listeria monocytogenes invasive disease	Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA)
Malaria	Yellow Fever
Measles (rubeola)
Meningococcal invasive disease
Mosquito-borne diseases (including chikungunya, dengue, eastern equine encephalitis, LA Crosse, St Louis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, West Nile, and Western equine encephalitis

 

Any other disease which is unusual in incidence, occurs in unusual numbers of circumstances, or appears to be of public health concern, e.g., epidemic diarrhea, food or waterborne outbreaks, acute respiratory illness.

*Adopted:  12/13/10

*Reviewed:  11/12/12

*Revised: 09/18/17

*Revised: 09/12/22

• is offered at each building as part of a standards-based program designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to promote and protect their health;
• is part of not only health education classes, but also classroom instruction in subjects such as math, science, language arts, social sciences and elective subjects;
• promotes fruits, vegetables, whole-grain products, low-fat and fat-free dairy products, healthy food preparation methods, and health-enhancing nutritional practices;
• emphasizes caloric balance between food intake and physical activity;
• links with meal programs, other foods, and nutrition-related community services; and
• includes training for appropriate teachers and other staff.

1. The district will provide at least thirty (30) minutes of physical activity per day for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district will provide at least one-hundred twenty (120) minutes of physical activity per week for students in sixth through twelfth grade or fill out the HKA Physical Activity Contract. Parents signature is required explaining how the students receive at least one hundred twenty (120) minutes of physical activity per week.

1. The district will provide physical education that:

• is for all students in kindergarten through twelfth grade;
• is taught by a certified physical education teacher;
• includes students with disabilities; students with special health-care needs may be provided with alternative educational settings; and
• engages students in moderate to vigorous activity during physical education class time.

1. Elementary schools will provide recess for students that:

• is at least twenty (20) minutes a day;
• is preferably outdoors;
• encourages moderate to vigorous physical activity; and
• discourages extended periods (i.e., periods of two (2) or more hours) of inactivity.

2. When activities, such as mandatory school-wide testing, make it necessary for students to remain indoors for long periods of time, schools should give students periodic breaks during which they are encouraged to stand and be moderately active.

1. Employees should not use physical activity (e.g., running laps, pushups) as disciplinary action. Withholding opportunities for physical activity (e.g., recess, physical education) is discouraged.

1. For students to receive the nationally recommended amount of daily physical activity and for students to fully embrace regular physical activity as a personal behavior, students need opportunities for physical activity beyond the physical education class. Toward that end, the District will:
   1. Integrate physical activity into classroom settings, by doing the following:
      1. Offering classroom health education that compliments physical education by reinforcing the knowledge and self-management skills needed to maintain a physically active lifestyle and to reduce time spent on sedentary activities;
      2. Discouraging sedentary activities, such as watching television, playing computer games, etc.;
      3. Providing opportunities for physical activity to be incorporated into other subject lessons; and
      4. Encouraging classroom teachers to provide short physical activity breaks between lessons or classes, as appropriate.

2. Market food in school in a manner consistent with nutritional education and health promotion, by doing the following:
   1. Limiting food and beverage marketing to the promotion of foods and beverages that meet the nutritional standards for meals or for foods and beverages sold individually;
   2. Prohibiting school-based marketing of brands promoting predominantly low-nutrition foods and beverages;
   3. Promoting healthy foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products; and
   4. Marketing activities that promote healthful behaviors.

3. Communicate with parents regarding providing students with a healthy diet and daily physical activity, by doing the following:
   1. Sending home nutrition information and post nutrition tips on a school website;
   2. Encouraging parents to pack healthy lunches and snacks and to refrain from including beverages and foods that do not meet the established nutritional standards for individual foods and beverages;
   3. Providing parents a list of possible foods that meet the District’s snack standards, ideas for healthy celebrations/parties, rewards, and fundraising activities;
   4. Asking parents or guardians to notify the school if their student has any food allergies or special dietary requirements;
   5. Providing information about physical education and other physical activity opportunities before, during, and after the school day;
   6. Supporting parents’ efforts to provide their children with opportunities to be physically active outside of school; and
   7. Sharing information about physical activity and physical education through a website and/or newsletter.

2. The district will also provide instruction concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to all students, so that each student has completed instruction in CPR prior to their high school graduation. The district may offer this instruction as it deems appropriate, including offering it through its physical education program.

1. The district values the health and well-being of every staff member. Staff members are encouraged to plan and implement activities that support efforts to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

1. Wellness Policy Committee.
   1. The district will establish a wellness policy committee that may be comprised of any of the following representatives of the Board, the district, parents, students, representatives of the school food authority, and nutrition/wellness experts, including teachers of physical education and/or school health professionals.
   2. The wellness policy committee and/or an individual designated by the committee will implement, monitor and evaluate/measure the wellness policy. The committee will report at least once every three years to the Board and to the general public regarding these efforts.

2. Implementation
   1. The committee and/or the designees will inform and update the public, including parents, students and the general community, about the content and implementation of the District’s wellness policy.
   2. Each school and the District as a whole will periodically measure prepare reports regarding implementation of the District’s wellness policy. The report shall describe how the school and/or District are striving to implement the goals outlined in the policy.

3. Monitoring.
   1. The Superintendent, the principal at each school, and the committee and/or designee will ensure compliance with established district-wide nutritional and physical activity wellness policies.
   2. Additionally, the following actions will occur:
      1. food service staff, at the school or district level, will ensure compliance with nutritional policies within food service areas and will report on this matter to the Superintendent or principal.
      2. The District will report on the most recent USDA School Meals Initiative (SMI) review findings and any resulting changes.
      3. The Food Service Director will develop a summary report on school district-wide compliance with the District’s wellness policy, based on input from schools within the District; and
      4. The report will be provided to the School Board and also distributed to the District.​

4. Policy Review
   1. To help with the initial development of the district’s wellness policy, each school in the District has conducted a baseline assessment of the school’s existing nutritional and physical activity environments and practices. The results of those school-by-school assessments will be compiled at the District level to identify and prioritize needs.​
   2. Periodic assessments will be conducted to review implementation and compliance, to assess progress, and determine areas in need of improvement. As part of that review, the committee and/or designee will do the following: 
      1. Generally consider whether there exists an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity;
      2. Review the nutritional and physical activity policies and practices to determine compliance with the District’s wellness policy;
      3. Consider the extent to which the District’s wellness policy compares to the model local wellness policy;
      4. Describe the progress the District has made in complying with its wellness policy and in comparing to the model local wellness policy;
      5. Provide to the Board any recommended updates to the District’s wellness policy.

1. Meals served through the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program will: 
   1. be appealing and attractive to students;
   2. be served in clean and pleasant settings;
   3. meet, at a minimum, nutrition Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requirements established by local, state and federal law;
   4. offer a variety of fruits and vegetables;
   5. include low-fat and fat-free milk and nutritionally equivalent non-dairy alternatives (as defined by the USDA);
   6. encourage serving of whole grain products; and
   7. accommodate alternatives for those students with allergies that meet the above guidelines as closely as possible.

1. To encourage that all students have breakfast, either at home or at school, in order to meet their nutritional needs and enhance their ability to learn, schools will notify parents and students of the availability of the district’s breakfast program and encourage parents to provide a healthy breakfast for their children.

1. The District will seek to provide water without added caloric sweeteners; fruit and vegetable juices and fruit-based drinks that contain 100 percent fruit juice and that do not contain additional caloric sweeteners; unflavored or flavored low-fat or fat-free milk.

1. The District will make every effort to eliminate any social stigma attached to, and prevent the overt identification of, students who are eligible for free and reduced-priced meals. Toward this end, the District may utilize electronic identification and payment systems and promote the availability of meals to all students.

1. The District prohibits students from sharing foods or beverages with one another during meal or snack times, given concerns about allergies, spreading of germs and communicable diseases, and other restrictions on student diets.

1. The District will do the following:
   1. provide students with adequate and appropriate time for meals;
   2. schedule meal periods at appropriate times, e.g., lunch should be scheduled between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.;
   3. provide students access to hand washing or hand sanitizing before they eat meals or snacks; and
   4. take reasonable steps to accommodate the tooth-brushing regimens of students with special oral health needs (e.g., orthodontia or high tooth decay risk).

G. Qualification of Food Service and Staff

1. Qualified nutrition professionals will administer the meal programs. As part of the district’s responsibility to operate a food service program, the district will provide continuing professional development for all nutrition professionals and provide staff development programs and training programs for the Food Service Director, kitchen managers, and cafeteria workers, according to their level of responsibility.

Other Food Available at School

A. Food Sold Outside the Meal

1. Examples include vending machine, a la carte and sales foods.

2. The term “school day” is defined as midnight the night before until 30 minutes after the end of the official school day.

3. Elementary Schools. The food service program will approve and provide all food and beverage sales to students in elementary schools. To this end, the following is true:

   1. food in elementary schools will be sold as balanced meals, given young student’s limited nutrition skills; and food and beverages sold individually will be limited to low-fat and nonfat milk, fruits and non-fried vegetables.

4. Middle School and High School. All foods and beverages sold individually outside the reimbursable meal programs including those sold through a la carte lines and machines, during the school day, will meet the following nutrition and portion size standards:

   1. SMART SNACKS IN SCHOOL

Nutrition Standards for Foods Any food sold to students in schools must:

• Be a “whole grain-rich” grain product; or
• Have as the first ingredient a fruit, a vegetable, a dairy product, or a protein food; or
• Be a combination food that contains at least ¼ cup of fruit and/or vegetable.

Food must also meet several nutrient requirements:

• Calorie limits:
  • Snack items ≤ 200 calories
  • Entree items ≤ 350 calories
• Sodium limits:
  • Snack items ≤ 200 mg
  • Entree items ≤ 480 mg
• Fat limits:
  • Total fat ≤ 35% of calories
  • Saturated fat ≤ 10% of calories
  • Trans fat 0 grams
• Sugar limits:
  • ≤ 35% of weight from total sugars in foods

2. Beverages:

   1. Nutrition Standards for Beverages

• All schools may sell:
• Plain water (with or without carbonation)
• Unflavored low-fat milk
• Unflavored or flavored fat free milk or milk alternatives permitted by NSLP/SBP
• 100% fruit or vegetable juice and
• 100% fruit or vegetable juice diluted with water (with or without carbonation), and no added sweeteners.

Elementary schools may sell up to 8-ounce portions, while middle schools and high schools may sell up to 12-ounce portions of milk and juice. There is no portion size limit for plain water.

Beyond this, the standards allow additional “no calorie” and “lower calorie: beverage options for high school students.

• No more than 20-ounce portions of
• Calorie-free, flavored water (with or without carbonation); and
• Other flavored and/or carbonated beverages that are labeled to contain ＜ 5 calories per 8 fluid ounces or ≤10 calories per 20 fluid ounces.
• No more than 12-ounce portions of
• Beverages with ≤ 40 calories per 8 fluid ounces, or ≤ 60 calories per 12 fluid ounces.

2. The beverage sold will not be a soda or other carbonated beverage.

 

3. Portion Size.  Limit portion sizes of foods and beverages sold individually to those listed below:
   
   1. The portion size of a la carte entrees and side dishes, including potatoes, will not be greater than the size of comparable portions offered as part of meals.  Fruits and non-fried vegetables are exempt from portion-size limits.

5. School-Sponsored Events Foods and beverages offered or sold at school-sponsored events outside the school day are encouraged to meet the nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold individually.

B. Snacks

1. Snacks served during the school day will make a positive contribution to students’ diets and health. Fruits and vegetables are the primary snack options. The district will disseminate a list of suggested snack items to teachers and parents. The district encourages parents and teachers to provide food that is commercially packaged or comes from Glenwood Community School Food Service Department Classroom Catering.

Each school will be encouraged to evaluate their celebration practices that involve food during the school day.  

Food Safety

1. All foods made available in the district will adhere to food safety and security guidelines.

2. All foods made available through food service will comply with the state and local food safety and sanitation regulations. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans and guidelines are implemented to prevent food illness in schools.

3. For the safety and security of the food and facility, access to the food service operations are limited to food service staff and authorized personnel.

Other Aspects of Student Wellness Policy – Nutrition Guidelines

1. Fundraising Activities

   1. To support student health and school nutrition-education efforts, school fundraising groups’ activities will be encouraged to use non foods or foods that are compliant to the school’s wellness policies. The district will make available a list of ideas for fundraising activities.

B. Rewards

1. The District will discourage the use of foods or beverages, especially those that do not meet the nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold individually, as rewards for academic performance or good behavior, and will not withhold food or beverages (including food served through meals) as a discipline.