NEW! Promising District Practices Website

April 14, 2009 - NSBA’s School Health Programs department is pleased to announce a new online resource: the Promising District Practices website. This website shares success stories related to school health policies and practices being implemented in school districts and schools around the country.   

These school districts and schools are successful in establishing internal coordination, enlisting school board and administrator support, creating partnerships, involving parents and communities, obtaining funding, engaging youth, demonstrating links between health and learning, and carrying out other useful strategies that help keep students healthy and ready to learn. NSBA’s School Health Programs developed the new Promising District Practices website to highlight these “best practices” in a practical and easily accessible way.

The website features a searchable database of success stories. The stories are submitted by the school districts and schools and reviewed by NSBA’s School Health Programs staff. While the current topics are limited to Coordinated School Health Programs, Tobacco Use, Asthma, Healthy Eating, and Physical Activity, these may be expanded in the future.

If you have effective policies and practices that you would like to share with your peers, please submit them to NSBA for possible publication using the website’s online submission form. By providing your story and guidance, you can help others build effective school health approaches that may strengthen students' health and education outcomes.

The Promising District Practices website was made possible by our cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC/DASH).  To explore the Promising District Practices website, please click here.

For additional information, please contact NSBA’s School Health Programs at schoolhealth@nsba.org.