SHAC Notes 5/23
Fourth Quarterly Meeting
Welcome/Kathleen
New Member Orientation
Welcomed Christine ? From HBMS and Mark Foster from Serene or HBMS?
Purpose and Role of SHAC Members
To effect behavior changes for whole student through the 8 components
(Health education, Physical Ed, parent/community involvement, etc.
SHAC is mandated by state law and is responsible for setting curriculum/standards
for students—See Kathleen
By-laws were discussed and minutes from previous meeting were approved via
email correspondence.
Subcommittee representation is being address to ensure equal representation from
all campuses;
Debbie Conyers address committee about need to fill the co-facilitator role of SHAC
to replace Christine? /LWE; Mark Foster volunteered from floor; motion to accept
was made by Sharmaine Erickson and Pete made second; all in favor of Foster.
Subcommittees (Reports on 2011-2012 goals/goals for upcoming school year
Food and Nutrition (FANS)
Traci Miller address SHAC regarding new nutrition guidelines, which go into effect
7/1/12 with min/max requirements;
Eg—grains/proteins will be allotted only 9-oz/per week; doubling up on fruits and
vegetables; cost will double for FANS;
Offerings vs. servings—students will get up to 5 items like 2 fruits, meat, grain and
dairy; Discussion regarding how students will understand new system. Traci said
notices would be going out with the “My Plate” curriculum; pictorials for younger
students to help with selections; will be changing the café lines to grab and go,
traditional offerings—hot side and popular items like pizza, corndog babies, etc.
FANS—a subcommittee of SHAC;
Discussion surrounded ways to support FANS/Traci on issues that are more
campus-based; FIT Smart is too much responsibility for Traci to handle from her
department; perhaps change format and/or alternate years; try new approaches;
Christy/LWE (leaving) said that LWE has a parent committee to support FANS on
her campus; stated that there needs to be representation at each grade level; she
and her committee worked with café manager to help students with “plate”
selections; educated students on the my plate offerings with go, slow and whoa
foods; had a vegetable of the month and planned activities for each month, i.e.
wearing green and created food collages; She suggested the need to integrate with
the curriculum throughout the student’s day. Christy recommended 2 parents per
campus; teams could help younger students to make the “right” food selections;
? —No hot breakfasts will be served on any campus 2012-2013—see Traci
Health and Nutrition
CATCH grant money from LTEF; MS creating CATCH for upcoming school year;
interested generated for t-shirts for students; good beginning for Health and
Fitness; MS to produce snippets to broadcast elementary schools; currently
Sharmaine showing older videos; suggestion will be good peer motivation; Tiffany
Navarro said the LTHS theater arts teacher/department has the capabilities to
produce for the MS, thus is will filter down to elementary campuses; collaboration
between Advanced Production and Theater/Filming;
Kathleen will be working over the summer to narrow down topics for schools; LWE
needs to be able to broadcast to school population; Character counts can be
integrated as well; Overall the topics addressed need to be consistent at all
campuses throughout district;
Fitness gram results
3-8th grades tested; results will be sent home on 5/31; suggested to release results
at another time during the school year with the challenges faced with end of year
activities and testing; Marco could post notice for parents on district website;
Suggested that TX/Connect could provide access for parents results of Fitness gram;
thus each campus nurse could possibly encourage/direct parents to particular
summer camps to achieve fitness grams that are out of the suggested ranges for
particular students;
Pete added that the principles of ATOD are applicable to all subcommittees of SHAC;
students could journal what they are eating to increase awareness for families, as
well as being physically fit; creating a baseline for future comparisons; Christy/LWE
suggested journaling could be included in campus planners students are required to
have; coordinate this will all campuses; e.g. journal what they ate for lunch; did in
PE; journaling “engraves” in the brain an awareness; maybe plan a CATCH week or
pair with a CATCH theme each quarter;
Human Sexuality
44 HS Health students took the Austin Life Guard abstinence only while 71 students
took the Big Decisions—abstinence plus; 4 opted out; since health is only 1-credit
requirement, it was suggested to offer topics during “Club Time”; only 7 sponsors
from 52 clubs at the HS were interested; Paul and Tiffany suggested more health-
related offerings to expand on what was offered in health taken during freshman
year; Paul recommended focusing on the major clubs, using smart boards in
classrooms to show videos/teach a lesson that boosts topics; come up with ways to
get students involved-just unsure of type of setting;
Texas is 4th in teen pregnancy (teen birthrate is different);
6th grade offering has 3 days with guest speakers with Austin Life Guard;
Crux—is that human sexuality begins at birth, curriculum must be age-appropriate;
comprehensive, spanning K-12—that is what is needed; suggestion made to add
parent permission on blanket form that district sends out at the beginning of each
school year so more students can get curriculum;
ATOD
Survey of 2000 students this semester on drug/alcohol usage; results will be coming
to SHAC in the fall—social norming project; questions on survey were more openended to help with student self-reporting; e.g.—82% were perceived to have drank
alcohol in the last 30 days, when in actuality 32% indulged; 88% perceived to have
smoked pot; 28% actual; need to create media that works developed by students;
“stall” information journaling/advertisements; focus of social norming is to promote
tactics that work; highlight the “right” choices students are making; steer clear of
scare tactics that do not work; parent surveys were skewed as well; Kim Brents has
committed 2 years towards program by U/Ill sociologist Michael Haines; staff and
parents will be surveyed as well in the future; Haines will be returning in the fall;
will open with community presentation;
Lessons taught to elementary classes with Chief Radford were well received;
counselors front loaded/open-ended questions kids will bring up the topic; dealt
with peer pressure and refusal skills; recommended to focus this consistently at all
campuses; Pete again related that all subcommittees need equal focus—all are
important aspects of coordinated school health;
ATOD/H Sex joint committee meeting—shared similar issues for the upcoming
2012-2013 school year and hope to meet more often;
Miscellaneous
Paul felt that his perception of drinking was 60-70% and feels that it was underreported by students; Kathleen shared how survey was administered to seniors at
senior breakfast; questions regarding the length of questioning, but is tied to test
results validity;
Suggested to have the following presenters at SHAC meetings next year:
Marathon Kids, Michael Haines, Coffee Chats—develop flyers so parents would be
aware of the topic; perhaps develop outlines that Marco could post;
Have a 6th grade parents kept aware of the topics discussed in Physical Ed each
week; utilize the websites at each campus as to what is happening relating to school
health;