Date of Award
5-5-2011
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Educational Leadership, Ed.D.
First Advisor
Mitch Holifield
Committee Members
George Foldesy; John Beineke; Myleea Hill; Paul Finnicum
Call Number
LD 251 .A566d 2011 A52
Abstract
Childhood obesity has become a worldwide epidemic with health and economic implications. In response to the epidemic, Congress passed the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. The act is an unfunded mandate requiring school districts and schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program to develop and implement a Local School Wellness Policy. The National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity or NANA developed a model wellness policy as a guide for schools in the development of a Local Wellness Policy. Research has shown that NANA's Model Policy and school policies lack comprehensiveness of required content and are weak in language. The purpose of this study was to develop a Model Wellness Policy that was both comprehensive in content and had strong language. Five state model policies and NANA's model policy were coded using the Schwartz Comprehensive Coding Tool. The findings confirmed that the policies used to guide schools lacked comprehensiveness of content and lacked strength of language. The results were used to develop a Model Wellness Policy that was both comprehensive in content and contained strong language.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Kimberly Ann, "Developing A Model Wellness Policy" (2011). Student Theses and Dissertations. 924.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/924
