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Yahira Romero
Healthy and Active School Assessment
PPE: 310 Heath Literacy for Schools
September 13, 2015

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School Assessment:

Copper Trails Overview:

What are at least two strengths and two weaknesses of your school?
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One strength that I have seen my school has is it offers two fall sports. One is volleyball
and the other is soccer. However, I noticed that not all of the students try out and make
the team. Another strength is that the school is two stories high. There is an elevator but
the students and staff use the stairs to get around. This provides an extra exercise to both
staff and students.
One weakness that my school has is that sixth, seventh, and eighth graders are not given
enough time to eat and exercise at recess. Middle grades are only allowed 30 minutes for
lunch and most of the time is used to eat. Another weakness is that only some students are
getting physical exercise daily. Not all the students are getting the physical exercise they
should be and looking at the school assessment they get a 40% on curriculum (Assessing
Your School, 2015).

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What are at least two ways to improve the policies in place at your school?
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One-way to improve the policies are to have students do a few exercises for the
beginning of each class. This will help students wake up or get their bodies moving.
Having teachers implement this exercise will help both parties. The students will be ready
to learn and teachers will be able to teach them. This exercise can be less than 5 minutes
long, it doesnt have to take a long time. The way to implement this is to have every
teacher will attend a meeting that informs them of the many quick and easy exercises that
stimulate the brain. They will come up with at least 10 different exercises that they can
incorporate in their class. Then on a weekly basis, they will send in how they
incorporated a certain exercise in their class and how it went.
Another way to improve the policies is to have more after school activities available for
students, parents, and staff. This would promote a healthy community. The whole school
working out together and getting active. The first steps to take is to survey the school and
see what interest them the most. Once we find out what the school is interesting in then
we would implement at least three to four activities after school. The people who would
run these events are one teacher or staff from the school and volunteers who could teach
the ones that are interested. Once we have a staff, the time, and volunteers we would
implement these activities.

What are at least two ways that you can use this information, teachers, parents, students and the
community in promoting behaviors that are more healthful?
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When informing parents, students, administrators, and teachers it would benefit using the
School Assessment Tool and showing how under each category as a school we do not
reach 100 percent. The assessment would help determine where to begin, do we begin
before, after school, during school, or at lunchtime. As a school, we would take it
systematically and adjust from there.

How can the information obtained be used to support your potential topic for the Signature
Assignment?
- This information obtained can be used to figure out where to begin in establishing a
healthier school. The assessment can help in determining what area is the most in need and
which area just needs a little more support.

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References
Assess Your School. (2015). Retrieved September 13, 2015, from
http://www.activeandhealthyschools.com/home/assess_survey.cfm

Part 3:
The school that I am doing my student teaching is Copper Trails in the Avondale School District.
In this school, there are about 948 students according to Arizona School Rankings. The entire
school begins at preschool through eighth grade. Additionally from Arizona School Rankings,
about 38.5% of students get free or reduced lunch.
The Copper Trails Elementary attendance rate is 95% (Arizona Report Card, 2015). As stated by
Arizona School Rankings, there are 442 Hispanics, 351 White, 78 African American, 65 Asian,
and others who were Pacific Islander or more than one race students.
Copper Trails is a public Title 1 school (Arizona Report Card, 2015). The letter grade that
Copper Trails received was a B according to Arizona Report Card.

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From experience, there are about 30 students in each core class 7th grade at Copper Trails
Elementary School.
It is a suburban area because there are neighborhoods and homes surrounding the school.
Arizona Report Card mentions that the community owns their house and are not renting.

References
Arizona School Rankings. (2006). Retrieved September 13, 2015, from
http://www.schooldigger.com/go/AZ/schoolrank.aspx
Arizona Report Card. (2013). Retrieved September 13, 2015, from
https://azreportcards.com/ReportCard

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PPE 310 Healthy and Active Schools, Assessment and School Context
Criteria

Exemplary: Points (5)

Assessm
ent

SCORE:

A minimum of 2
strengths and 2
weaknesses were
described
Assessment was
completed online
and posted to your
EPortfolio
Suggestions to
improve school
policies were clearly
stated
At least 2
suggestions to
engage stakeholders
were provided

Proficient: Points (3)

A minimum of 1
strength and 1
weakness was
described
Suggestions to
improve school
policies were stated
but lacked sufficient
detail
At least 1 suggestion
to engage stakeholders
was provided
Assessment was
completed online and
not in your EPortfolio

Unsatisfactory: Points (1)

Assessment was not completed online o

in your EPortfolio
Strengths and weaknesses were not, or
poorly described
Suggestions to improve school policies
were not stated
No suggestions to engage stakeholders
were provided

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School
Context

SCORE:

School context
contained detailed
information on
grade levels
% free/reduced
lunch
enrollment,
proportion ELLs
average class size
urban/rural/suburban
,
ethnic makeup
state test scores
AYP status
All of the following
are listed in the file
document name
submitted
Lastname.firstname.
assignment#.course#
This rubric was
added to the last
page of the
document submitted

School context
contained some
detailed information
on
grade levels
% free/reduced lunch
enrollment,
proportion ELLs
average class size
urban/rural/suburban,
ethnic makeup
state test scores
AYP status
Most of the following
are listed in the file
document name
submitted
Lastname.firstname.as
signment#.course#
This rubric was added
but not at the end of
the document
submitted

School context contained little detailed

information on
grade levels
% free/reduced lunch
enrollment,
proportion ELLs
average class size
urban/rural/suburban,
ethnic makeup
state test scores
AYP status
Few of the following are listed in the fil
document name submitted
Lastname.firstname.assignment#.course
This rubric was not added to the docume
submitted