TTHS | Parents for Healthy Schools

Knowledge Check

You are a member of the School Health Council for Jefferson School. The School Health Council meets monthly to discuss increasing parent engagement at Jefferson School to create a healthy school environment in the areas of:

School nutrition environment and services
Physical education and physical activity
Managing chronic health conditions in schools

The School Health Council has held several successful meetings with parents of children at Jefferson School. Ideas for involvement have been shared with the parents, and now the Council is ready to employ strategies they have learned about in the Parents for Healthy Schools resources at the school and district levels.

Read the following statements to select the most appropriate response.

Plans are in place to collaborate with state and district chapters of organizations such as the PTA and PTO, Action for Healthy Kids, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and SHAPE America. The purpose of this collaboration is to:

Correct! The primary purpose of collaboration is to train groups that work with parents on how to use the Parents for Healthy Schools resources.

Try again! While this could be a result of collaboration, the primary purpose is to train groups that work with parents on how to use the Parents for Healthy Schools resources.

Begin implementation of specific strategies.

Train groups that work with parents on how to use the Parents for Healthy Schools resources.

Learn about activities of other organizations.

Share information and ideas.

The School Health Council has completed CDC's School Health Index to identify strengths and weaknesses, delivered the Parents for Healthy Schools: Making a Difference in Your Child's School PowerPoint Presentation to parents during meetings, and distributed the Ideas for Parents to them. Their next steps will be:

Correct! These are all valuable next steps to take to promote parent engagement.

Try again! This is a valuable next step, but there are other actions that can also be taken.

Use the Promoting Parent Engagement in School Health: A Facilitator's Guide for Staff Development to develop a plan for parent engagement.

Use the Parents for Healthy Schools: A Guide for Getting Parents Involved from K‒12 to identify ways to use the PowerPoint presentation and Ideas for Parents.

Look for signs of change and collect parent feedback using the Check-In Questions and the evaluation form for the PowerPoint presentation.

All of the above.

In using the Parents for Healthy Schools resources, what is the primary goal of collaboration between schools and parents?

Correct! The primary goal of collaboration between schools and parents is to work together to prioritize a list of school health activities and events to create a healthy school environment.

Try again! This is not a goal of collaboration between schools and parents.

Try again! Improved parenting skills may result from collaboration between schools and parents, but this is not the primary goal.

Try again! The primary goal of collaboration between schools and parents is to work together to prioritize a list of school health activities and events to create a healthy school environment.

Working together to prioritize a list of school health activities and events.

Establishing a forum for addressing complaints.

Providing tools and resources to improve parenting skills.

None of the above.

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