6th Annual Healthy Classrooms Symposium“Bringing Public Health to the Classroom”

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University of WisconsinSchool of Medicine and Public HealthHealth Sciences Learning Center750 Highland AvenueMadison, WI 35705

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Schedule of Events

Keynote Speaker-Richard Davidson

Breakout Speakers

2014 Grant Recipients

Donors & Sponsors

About us

Program Guide

Diana Hoffman: Lets Move Girls ProgramCassandra Vanderwall & Ellen Houston: Combatting Childhood Obesity in the Classroom *only available during breakout session 1 from 7:20PM - 8:05 PM.Lisa Thomas Prince, Chad McGehee, & Lori Gus-tafson: Mindfulness practices for teachers and students Laurie Bibo: CATCH Healthy Habits

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Check In

Welcome

Keynote Speech

D I N N E R

Breakout Session 1

Breakout Session 2

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Schedule of Events

Keynote Speaker

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Talk DescriptionMeditation produces changes in brain function that promote well-being, foster certain forms of positive a!ect and virtuous dispositions and impact physical health and illness. "rough research with both long-term practitioners and novices stud-ied longitudinally, this talk will illustrate some of key #ndings and challenges in the nascent #eld of contemplative neuroscience.

Bio - Richard Davidson Ph.D.Richard J. Davidson is the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior and the Laboratory for A!ective Neu-roscience, and Founder and Chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published more than 275 articles, many chapters and reviews and edited 13 books. He has been a member of the Mind and Life Institute’s Board of Directors since 1991.

In 2003 Davidson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2004 he was elected to the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. In 2006, he was awarded the #rst Mani Bhaumik Award by UCLA for advancing the understanding of the brain and conscious mind in healing. Also in 2006, he was named one of the 100 most in$uential people in the world by Time maga-zine, and in 2007, Madison Magazine named him Person of the Year. In 2008, he founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, a research center dedicated to the study of positive qualities, such as kindness and compassion. In 2011, he was given the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. He serves on the Scienti#c Advisory Board at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig from 2011-2017 and as Chair of the Psychology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2011-2013.

Change your brain by transforming your mind

Bio - Diana Hoffman, RN, BSN,

She #nds working in the #eld of school health services to be very rewarding. Her philosophy in school nursing is summoned up well by a quote from former Sur-geon General Jocelyn Elders who stated, “You cannot educate a child who is not healthy and you cannot keep a child healthy who is not educated”. She strives to provide services to students to keep them healthy and in school where they can be educated.Outside of school, Diana enjoys hiking, biking, running, swimming and participat-ing in triathlons with her husband….just for the fun of it!

Diana Ho!man is a registered nurse providing school health services to the students and sta! of Whitewater Uni#ed School District through a contract with Fort HealthCare. She has been an employed by Fort HealthCare for over 25 years, with the last 19 years working in school nursing. She graduated from UW- Madison School of Nursing with a BSN in 1983 and has received her Na-tional Certi#cation in School Nursing in 2000

Breakout Speaker

Lets Move Girls Program

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Breakout Speakers

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Bio-Cassandra Vanderwall, MS, RD, CD, CDE, CPTCassie is a Registered Dietitian, Certi#ed Diabetes Educator and Certi#ed Personal Trainer that works at the University of Wisconsin- Madison Hospital and Clinics as a Clinical Dietitian. She received her bachelor’s degree from University of IL at Urbana-Champaign and her Master’s degree from Rush University Medical Center. She has also received certi#cates in Weight Management, Motivational Interview-ing and Bio-Informatics.Cassie loves to equip and empower people to achieve their nutrition and wellness goals. She has worked within the Chicagoland and Madison areas at various health care and community centers. She has also completed community research in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and was a facilitator for the Kids Eat Right Campaign. In her current role, Cassie, assesses, educates and counsels patients and families on a variety of nutrition-related disease states.

Combatting Childhood Obesity in the Classroom

Bio - Ellen Houston, MSEllen is an exercise physiologist at the UW Pediatric Fitness Clinic. She has been with UW Health for the last three years and also works in the Pediatric Preventive Cardiology Clinic doing stress tests and working on a research project with a cardi-ologist using a health coaching intervention for managing blood pressure.Ellen also spent 12 years in the Madison Metropolitan School District working as a Special Education Assistant in elementary and middle schools and 13 years coach-ing high school track and cross country. Ellen completed her Bachelors of Science degree at UW-Madison and her Master’s degree at UW- Lacrosse. She is a mother of 2 daughters, and enjoys walking, biking, skiing, and horseback riding. Ellen also owns 3 dogs, 2 horses, 1 hamster and a #sh!

Bio - Lisa Thomas Prince, MPHLisa works as an Educational Outreach Specialist at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM), assisting in the development of programming focused on mindful awareness for children for CIHM research studies. She teaches the kindness curriculum to students in local schools and assists in sharing information about mind-fulness training to teachers, school sta!, and parents of children in the studies. She is particularly interested in bringing cultural relevancy to the training elements. Lisa is also an instructor of mindfulness for youth through the UW Health Mindfulness Pro-gram.

Chad is a member of the CIHM Educational Outreach Team, working to develop, im-plement and continuously improve mindfulness-based curricula for students and teach-ers. Chad’s motivation to do this work comes from many years working as a teacher/ instructional coach and experiencing the complexity, challenge and capacity of our current public education system. He is interested in #nding e!ective ways to increase qualities of balance, kindness and calm into our school systems. Chad is trained as a bi-lingual teacher (Spanish/English) with many years of experience teaching mindfulness in public school settings.

Bio - Chad McGehee, MA

As a member of the CIHM Educational Outreach Team, Lori is helping to develop, manage and implement mindfulness-based training programs for students and sta! in the local school districts. With over 25 years of teaching experience in the public schools, Lori is fully aware of the challenges that both teachers and students face on a daily basis. Her interest is in exploring ways to share practices that can help focus atten-tion, regulate strong emotions and cultivate qualities such as kindness and compassion. Lori has completed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) professional train-ing and is currently an instructor in the Mindfulness Program at UW Health.

Bio - Lori Gustafson

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Mindfulness practices for teachers and students

Bio - Laurie BiboLaurie graduated with her B.S. in Elem. Education, K-9, from the Univ of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and a%er a short stint working in the Financial Aids o&ce on campus and teaching in a pre-school, moved to Madison (where she was actually born!) with her husband. Laurie then dove head#rst into the world of business for the next 22 years in vari-ous management roles with a department ultimately reaching over 120 associates and 8 Supervisors reporting directly to her. Responsibilities included everything from #nancial planning, employee management, workload distribution, customer satisfac-tion, and legal compliance to o&ce facilities. Stepping out of this business role to follow her heart, Laurie then became the Execu-tive Director for a non-pro#t focused on children of incarcerated mothers. "is was an eye opening, heart-warming and very challenging role. Her next position found her teaching pre-Kindergarten kids at “Safety Town” with at a program through the Madison Fire Department. And #nally, happily Laurie has landed in her current role as the CATCH Healthy Habits Coordinator, Madison, entering her 4th year. She looks forward to playing a continuing, contributing, and collaborating role in our area’s ongoing #ght against childhood and adult obesity. Laurie and her husband, Bill are the proud parents of two grown children, one mar-ried with the gi% of two “grandboys” in their lives! "e other will be married this July, another exciting event!

Breakout Speaker

CATCH Healthy Habits: Older Adults and Kids: Working Together for a Healthier Life, One Hula Hoop at a Time!

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Nutrition Education Project, Mineral Point Middle and High School“During the fall of 2014, the Mineral Point school district will be launching an a%er school cooking club available to Middle and High School students. "e program will run for #ve months totaling 10 sessions. Each session will have speci#c lessons plans that cover topics such as: proper kitchen knife skills, sourcing and selection of food, nutritional content, label reading, costs, preparation, storage, meal planning and presentation. Students will be taking a #eld trip to a grocery store as well as a local farmers market. Mineral Point is blessed with a plethora of talented farmers, chefs and culinary authors. We will de#nitely be utilizing our local resources. As the District school nurse for the past two years, I have had the opportunity to formally and informally survey students regarding their desire to learn food skills. Resoundingly they have voiced an interest.”Live It! Program, Columbus and Fall River Schools“"e Live It! program aims to motivate students to make nutrient-rich food choices while performing physical activity to enhance the wellness of middle school children, typically aged 11-14 years old, within the rural community of Columbus and Fall River, Wisconsin. "e curriculum consists of fourteen lessons; eleven nutrition based and three physical activity based lessons. Seven to eight classes participate each year; classes compete against one another each semester by earning points when completing in-class and take-home activities. "e winning class wins a trip to the hospital for a healthy cooking class with our Executive Chef, Melissa Osterho!.”Nutrition Education Project, Mt. Horeb Intermediate School“Children in the United States do not meet USDA guidelines for a healthy diet and are receiving home-cooked meals less frequently than in the past. "e goal of the program is to increase the children’s exposure to and acceptance of healthy foods while teaching them food preparation techniques. Lessons vary from hand hygiene to basic cooking techniques and preparing healthy snacks. School-based nutrition lesson plans will be developed and led by Registered Dieticians, and will focus e!orts on children identi#ed by their teachers as students who would most bene#t from nutrition education.”

2014 Grants

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ThinkFirst Program, Core Knowledge Charter School, Verona “Children and teens are at high-risk for brain and spinal cord injuries, many of which are preventable. "e "inkFirst program aims to increase awareness of brain and spinal cord injuries and methods of prevention for children and teens through scheduled educational seminars in public and charter schools. "e program ties anatomy to injury prevention for greater comprehension, the ability to make safe choices, and encouragement of critical thinking. "e program also o!ers direct communication with a health professional, and covers topics including the anatomy of the brain and spinal cord, as well as bicycle, pedestrian, playground, sports, and weapon safety.”Water Station Project, Dodgeville Elementary School“"e water station project aims to address the importance of hydration while combatting dehydration and steering students away from sugary drinks throughout the school day. "e installation of water fountains as well as the distribution of reusable water bottles will give both students and sta! a better opportunity to drink more water on a daily basis. "e project hopes to see better school attendance due to improved health, increased student attention and improved grades, weight loss in sta! and students who substitute water for sugary drinks, and a more environmentally conscious student body as they see how many water bottles they can save.”Cross-Country Ski Project, Lincoln Elementary School, Madison“Introducing students to cross-country skiing as a form of exercise in the winter will be part of an overall e!ort of the school to integrate health and wellness activities for teachers and students, such as nutrition education, a healthy snack program, school lunch garden bar, running programs, and mindfulness training. Every class in the school will be able to participate in one-hour ski sessions, which will be volunteer-supported by the Madison Nordic Ski Club. Each class will spend at least two class sessions per winter outdoors on skis, learning basic moves, playing some learning games, and practicing downhill.”Mindfulness Project, John Muir Elementary School, Madison“"rough the implementation of both large group and subgroup mindfulness programs in addition to the use of a new Muir Mindfulness Garden, this project aims to target the behavioral needs of Muir’s 2nd grade students. "e program will decrease overall behavior referrals for 2nd grade students by 60% while supporting the use of school-wide mindfulness practices for all Muir students. "e ultimate goal is that better developed social-emotional skills, increased exposure to and engagement with academics and improved school-community relationships will support positive student achievement.”

2014 Grants

ContributorsAmanda Delaney

Mackenzie AndropolisLaura IsaacsonDuncan Bathe

Please look for their logos throughout this program.

Platinum SponsorUW Health/American Family Children’s Hospital

Gold SponsorEpic

Silver SponsorsUW School of Medicine and Public Health

St. Mary’s HospitalFort HealthCare

To our donors and sponsors, Thank you for

your generous contributions. you make the

Healthy Classrooms Foundation possible.

DonorsPatrick McBride

Bob BerssenbruggeHelen Burish

Annie BerssenbruggeKaren Claffey-Koller

Susan & Brad Manning

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About the HCF

Events CommitteeAmanda Delaney - Director

Aaron RobinsonCayla MaherTianxiao HanAlexa Olson

Kristin Brown

Development CommitteeAshley Van Galen- Director

Alia KalotiZach MillerBeth White

Mohammad HararahRoss Laurent

Giving CommitteeMacKenzie Andropolis - Director

Erin McGlynnSarah Mortimer

Cayla MaherTony Dobner

Juanita FernandezJenna GreenMary Lynch

Katie Beaulieu

Public RelationsJeff Nahn - Director

MacKenzie AndropolisKarina Holz

Joshua KruegerAubrey BueloTara Rushmer

Healthy Classrooms Foundation is proud of the fact that we are 100% volunteer-run. This means that all of the support we receive from our generous donors and sponsors goes directly to cool grant program initiatives and events like our

annual symposium.

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Our Amazing Volunteers

Ross Laurent

M1 RepresentativeUWSMPH student

Mackenzie Andropolis

Director of GivingUW student

Susan Manning, JD, RHIA, CPC

Director at LargeAttourney: Monona Grove School Board

Ben Beatty, MD

Past PresidentUWSMPH Alumni

Tim Klagos

Director of Finance

Laura Isaccson

Director at Large

Board Of Directors

Elizabeth White

PresidentUWSMPH student

Ashley Van Galen

Vice PresidentUWSMPH student

Mohammad Hararah

Past PresidentUWSMPH student

Jeffrey Nahn

Director of PRUWSMPH student

Amanda Delaney

Director of EventsUWSMPH student

Patrick McBride, MD, MPH

Director at LargeProf. of Medicine & Family Medicine, UWSMPH

Andrea Kreft, MS

Director at LargePrincipal, Muir Elementary School

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Healthy Classrooms Foundation is proud to partner with UW Health/American Family

Children’s Hospital as our Platinum Sponsor. We are incredibly fortunate to have their

longstanding support.

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THANK YOU for attending

our 8th Annual Healthy

Classrooms Symposium ! ! !

Don’t forget to ask one of our volunteers about a p p l y i n g

f o r o n e o f o u r g r a n t s . We have volunteers throughout the symposium that would love

talk to you about our grant-giving process.

From all of us at Healthy Classrooms Foundation,