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How to get your administrator to buy into your program

How to get your administrator to buy into your program. Strategy for Success: The Facts. Administrators are under pressure to achieve API scores Administrators are under pressure to focus on Math, Language Arts, Science

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How to get your administrator to buy into your program

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  1. How to get your administrator to buy into your program

  2. Strategy for Success: The Facts • Administrators are under pressure to achieve API scores • Administrators are under pressure to focus on Math, Language Arts, Science • Are not interested in programs that may take time and energy away from this focus

  3. Strategy for Success: The Facts • Teachers • Don’t want to feel burdened with “one more thing” • Generally want what’s best for kids, for the school, for the district, the community • Need something that is easy to teach and is linked to standards

  4. Selling the program to Principals • Discuss the connection between healthy kids and test scores • healthy, fit kids learn better • share data • Discuss the connection between healthy kids and reduced absenteeism, and better classroom behavior

  5. Selling the program to Principals • Present with facts AND how it helps them do their job • Show them that Nutrition Education and PA promotion is a no-brainer for school success • Talk about School Wellness policy • Show links to curricular standards in Math, Language Arts, and Science

  6. Selling the program to Principals • Emphasize that it’s turnkey and that you’ll make it easy for teachers • Show links to the community and parental involvement

  7. Selling the program to Principals • Offer to make a presentation to teachers that includes a taste-test demo • Show media efforts that focus on the positive aspects the school can offer • Invite them to see the program in action in a cafeteria, classroom, garden, or special event

  8. Strategy for Success: The 3-C’s Cafeteria Nutrition Education Classroom Community

  9. Harvest of the Month

  10. Guest Lectures

  11. Professional Development

  12. Nutrition and PE Training

  13. Garden Nutrition Education

  14. Adult Nutrition Classes

  15. Advisory Councils

  16. Nutrition education on the student menu

  17. Special Events

  18. Media Outreach

  19. Website

  20. Community Partners • Northgate-Gonzalez grocery store • Schnierow Dental • Hawthorne Community Television • City of Hawthorne, Hawthorne PD • Los Angeles County DPSS • WIC • Los Angeles County Library • Daughters of Charity Health Services • Little Company of Mary Mobile Health Services • Dairy Council of California • American Cancer Society • COPA – Creating Opportunities for Physical Activity • Moneta Gardens Improvement, Inc. • St. Margaret’s Center • Dole Produce

  21. Strategy for Success: The 3-C’s Cafeteria Nutrition Education Classroom Community

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