Promoting A Healthy Lifestyle

We in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch School District believe that our four strategic objectives are interdependent, and each helps us achieve our goal of "high achievement for all students."

The strategic objective "improve the learning environment for students and staff," is such a crucial piece to the puzzle when it comes to success.  The environment encompasses so much including teaching our students about healthy lifestyles.

This includes our work that we have done through the years to promote positive student character traits, decrease out-of-school suspensions and increase attendance among our students. Last year, the C-FB ISD team implemented a newly formatted Student Code of Conduct that we believe was clearer and easier for parents and students to understand.

Along with these types of environmental changes, our Student Nutrition Services Department provides students healthy and delicious meals and works with other C-FB ISD staff to provide facts and materials about nutrition and eating right.  Although there are new school meal requirements for the upcoming school year, our Student Nutrition Services group has been moving our school menus toward these requirements.

In C-FB ISD school cafeterias next year, you will see three different serving sizes in the amount of calories and number of ounces of grains and meats:  Kindergarten-grade 5, grades 6-8 and grades 9-12.  Currently, you will find in our cafeterias broccoli, spinach, romaine lettuce, carrots, sweet potatoes and other vegetables each week.  Our Student Nutrition staff also offers fresh fruit at least twice a week as well as frozen fruit in addition to canned fruit in natural juice whenever possible.

Now that it's summer, we know that most of our students are at home, and Rachelle Sherrin, director of our Student Nutrition Services, and her team have placed on the Student Nutrition website several articles, including:

• Healthy Snacks for Summer
• 10 Best Outdoor Exercises
• Grilling 101

The website provides links to the "top 10 nutrition sites."  Ms. Sherrin recommends the website of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for tips for families: website  The academy also offers another website: Kids Eat Right; it often has recipes that adults and children can make together.

The Student Nutrition department is also going green. This year families can apply for free or reduced lunch online.  The application will be available in August on the Student Nutrition website.

Another C-FB ISD resource for families is Pinterest, an online pinboard.  The district's address is pinterest.com/cfbisd.  We currently have two pins related to healthy eating.

• http://pinterest.com/cfbisd/healthy-eating/
• http://pinterest.com/cfbisd/kids-in-the-kitchen/

All of us in C-FB ISD believe in the goal "high achievement for all students."  And, it takes everyone in C-FB ISD working together to accomplish this goal.  That is why, we must use every tool possible to work on our four strategic objectives.  We appreciate the work of our Student Nutrition Services team.  And, learning about nutrition does play an important role in student achievement. 

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Other Focus Points from 2011-2012 related to this objective:

Schools: Safe & Learning-Focused

Providing a Safe Learning Environment