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Resources

• Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) Program Summary - An all inclusive approach by which school districts and schools provide all possible opportunities for students to engage in school-related physical activity. Created by SHAPE America with support from CDC.
• CSPAP: A Guide for Schools - provides a comprehensive overview of CSPAP and describes in detail the step-by-step strategies to develop, implement, and evaluate CSPAP.
• Governance Brief: Integrating Physical Activity into the School Day (4/16) A Joint Publication of CSBA and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation
• Fact Sheet: Physical Education: A Slow Start to a Promising Educational Boost (3/14)
• When School Districts Fail to Comply With State Physical Education Laws, the Fitness of California’s Children Lags: policy brief from San Francisco State University (12/13)
• Fact Sheet: New study examines best practices for supporting physical activity in schools (8/13)
• Community-Based After School Programs and Youth Physical Fitness - The Youth Data Archive, along with Redwood City partners and funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Salud America! initiative, undertook an analysis of the extent to which participation in community-run after school programs is associated with youth physical fitness outcomes.
• Physical education and California schools - CSBA Policy Brief, October 2007. Provides an overview of implications of inactivity, physical education time requirements, FITNESSGRAM requirements, content standards and the role of the board in efforts to positively impact the health of California’s youth.

Related links

• California Department of Public Health
• California Project LEAN
• California Healthy Kids Resource Center
• California Center for Public Health Advocacy
• Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America

Successful Students Through Healthy Food and Fitness Policies

Learn how you can have an impact on the health, wellness and success of all students. CSBA and its partners have created this dynamic series of videos and resources to inform and educate you about opportunities for improving and increasing physical activity.

Introduction

This short video introduces the four video segments offered below.

• How to Establish a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program for Your District (6/10)
• PA/PE Policy Brief: A survey of district/county office of education perceptions and practices (updated 4/10) 

Sample Policies/Administrative Regulations

 The following policy and regulation may be accessed via subscription to GAMUT. For further information about subscribing to CSBA's Policy Services, visit our Web page or call (800) 266-3382.

• BP 6142.7: Physical Education and Activity
• AR6142.7: Physical Education and Activity

Joint Use of School Facilities

Establishing joint use agreements is a way for school districts, cities, non-governmental and nonprofit organizations to work together to increase physical activity for students and their communities by sharing school and community facilities.

• Policy Brief: Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity through Joint Use of Facilities (2/10)
• Joint Use of School Facilities Fact Sheet (8/10)

Sample Policies/Administrative Regulations

The following sample policy may be accessed via subscription to GAMUT. For further information about subscribing to CSBA's Policy Services, visit our Web page or call (800) 266-3382.

• BP 1330.1: Joint Use Agreements

Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA)

Learn how to strengthen physical education by ensuring students engage in MVPA (moderate to vigorous physical activity).

• Fact Sheet: Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education to Improve Health and Academic Outcomes (11/09)

Physical Activity During the School Day

Learn how to implement low-cost strategies to improve the quantity and quality of student physical activity during the school day through recess, lunchtime, and classroom activities.

• Fact Sheet: Active Bodies, Active Minds – Physical Activity and Academic Achievement (2/10)
• Fact Sheet: Maximizing Opportunities for Physical Activity during the School Day (11/09)

Safe Routes to School

Create safe routes to school programs and policies that increase physical activity opportunities before and after school.

• Policy Brief: Safe Routes to School: Program and policy strategies (9/09)

Sample Policies/Administrative Regulations

The following policy and regulation may be accessed via subscription to GAMUT. For further information about subscribing to CSBA's Policy Services, visit our Web page or call (800) 266-3382.

• BP 5142.2: Safe Routes to School Program
• AR 5142.2: Safe Routes to School Program

* The videos were produced in partnership with the California School Boards Association, California Project LEAN, California Active Communities, and The California Endowment.