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Kids with Food Allergies can't take safety at school for granted.
Sending your child with food allergies to school (Powerpoint) School Boot Camp for Parents of Kids with Food Allergies 2/12/2011
February 12, 2011 www.foodallergysupportmn.org
Podcasts
SrDad Interviews Ellie about Food Allergies and Schools
Fun Ways to Prepare Your Food Allergic Child for School
Sample School Letters to Classmates' Parents
Food Allergy Kindness

Self Advocacy: Letter to Bakeries and Restaurants
Dealing with School Officials (NCCE)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Special Education Appeals Issue: Whether Mystic Valley must adopt a policy that establishes a classroom free of peanut and tree nut products as a reasonable accommodation under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, (hereinafter, Section 504) for Student in order to address the life threatening nature of his disability? Re: Student v. Mystic Valley Regional Charter SchoolBSEA # 03-3629, http://www.doe.mass.edu/bsea/decisions/03-3629.pdf

NASN Position Statement: Medical Services vs. Health Services in the School Setting

School Health Nursing Services Role in Health Care:  Impact of Cedar Rapids Community School District vs. Garret F. on School Nursing Services

You Can't Say You Can't Play, by Vivien Gussin Paley, Reviewed by Ellie Goldberg
About Food Allergies at School
*Copyright Notice*
  • A Full-Time School Nurse in Every School!
  • A School EpiPen Policy That Saves Lives
  • Advocacy for Students with Food Allergies: Making Waves or Making Progress
  • Asthma and Allergies at School. Is a formal or informal process best?
  • Advocacy Works: The Letter of Concern
  • Building the Comprehensive Coordinated Care and Advocacy Plan
  • Coaching the Parent Advocate
  • Effective School Leadership and the Hidden World of Bullying
  • For Safety's Sake: Planning for Students with Food Allergies
  • Getting Off to a Good Start
  • He Looks Fine to US. Why are you so worried?
  • Including Children with Chronic Health Conditions: Nebulizers in the Classroom, Ellie Goldberg, Young Children (NAEYC), January, 1994.
  • Liability Waivers and Food Allergies
  • Overcoming Obstacles to Health Management at School.  What are my child's rights? What if my child's needs are not being met?
  • Parent-School Conference agenda for students with special health needs
  • Students with Food Allergies: What Do the Laws Say? Food Allergy Network Newsletter, 2003
  • Translating Rights into Realities: Using the IHP
  • Why School Nurses?
Making It East To Do the Right Thing...

Alternatives to Using Food as a Reward

Alternatives to Food as Reward 

Teacher Suggested Alternatives for Food Rewards

Alternatives to Food Rewards 

Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits While Protecting Children's Health

  1. Improve School Foods Outside of Meals

State and Local Policy: Model School Foods Policies

  • Model state legislation on vending, a la carte, fundraising and other school foods sold outside of meals

  • Model local school wellness policies on physical activity and nutrition

  • Model language for a school board resolution to provide healthy beverages at (and ban soda from) schools (from the Los Angeles Unified School District)

CSPI's School Foods Tool Kit provides how to's, model materials and policies, and examples of what other states and communities are doing to improve school foods.

Find out your state's policy on nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold outside of school meals in CSPI's:

  • 2007 School Foods Report Card

  • 2006 School Foods Report Card

Background

  • Report: Dispensing Junk: How School Vending Undermines Efforts to Feed Children Well

  • Additional Background Resources

Improving School Foods without Losing Money

  • Report: Raw Deal: School Beverage Contracts Less Lucrative Than They Seem (PDF 4,000kb)

  • Recommendations for Healthier School Beverage Contracts from Community Health Partnership (PDF 45kb)

  • Additional Revenue Resources

Fundraising

  • Report: Sweet Deals: School Fundraising Can Be Healthy and Profitable (PDF 1.6mb)

  • Fact Sheet: School Fundraisers Can be Healthy and Profitable

  • Fact Sheet: Fundraising Options Available to Schools

  • Model State and Local PTA Resolutions on Healthy School Fundraising

  • Georgia PTA Healthy Fundraising Resolution

Serve Healthy Snacks

  • Healthy school snack ideas

  • Model newsletter article/1-page summary of healthy snack ideas for children

  • Healthy Summer Snacking

  • Make Water More Available at School (from California Food Policy Advocates)

Rewards in the Classroom

  • Fact Sheet: Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits While Protecting Children's Health

  • Alternatives to Using Food as a Reward developed by Michigan State University Extension

  • Healthy Classroom Celebrations




The world endures solely by virtue of the breath of school children. (Talmud)

Best Wishes for a Healthy School Year!

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Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed.
healthykids@rcn.com

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