Publications and Resources

Asthma

• Asthma Engagement Tool (PowerPoint) - This PowerPoint presentation was created to engage school leaders or district staff around the issue of asthma in schools.
• Powerful Practices: A Checklist for School Districts Addressing the Needs of Students with Asthma (PDF) - This checklist is intended for school administrators to use to help identify areas of asthma management your district is already doing well, as well as areas on which to focus attention.
• School Governance & Leadership, Spring 2003 (PDF) - This issue of School Governance & Leadership covers asthma, indoor air quality, asthma management, policies and procedures in schools, and liability and litigation issues.
• Questions School Leaders Frequently Ask About Asthma - Updated quarterly, this document contains questions most asked about asthma by superintendents and other school leaders.

Childhood Obesity

• Healthy Learning News (PDF) - This short and informative newsletter features school districts from across the country that are making positive program and policy changes in the areas of healthy eating and active living.

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• School Governance & Leadership, Spring 2006 (PDF) - This issue of School Governance & Leadership covers school policy and practice in combating childhood obesity, including how districts can encourage healthy eating and active living within the school environment.

Healthy School Environments

• Building Success, Leading Change: Stories of Healthy School Environments (PDF) - This publication highlights the accomplishments of two district members of the AASA Urban Healthy Schools Coalition. These districts share their successes of using superintendent leadership and collaboration to create environments conducive to learning. This publication includes a CD-ROM with forms, action plans, checklists and other useful resources school districts can tailor for their own use.
• Putting the Pieces Together: An Urban School Leader's Guide to Healthy Indoor Environments - This guide offers practical action steps for every leadership role so that the school indoor air environment is less uncomfortable, inadequate and unhealthy.
• Indoor Air Quality and the Environment (PowerPoint) - This presentation can be used to engage school leaders or district staff around the issue of indoor air quality in schools.
• Schoolhouse in the Red (2004 edition) - This book includes information on the state of school facilities, indoor air quality, financing improvements, asthma, energy efficiency, liability and litigation.
• School Health (The School Administrator, January 2003) - This issue of the magazine covers a variety of school health issues, including indoor air quality, asthma management and prevention, and creative nursing solutions.

Other

• Back to School 2009 Mini Toolkit - put together by the Children's Defense Fund for School Leaders Parents and Communities. This is a campaign to link  every uninsured child to affordable health coverage through Texas Schools.
• Back to School Webinar - America's Promise Alliance, focuses on reaching uninsured children.  
• "Healthy Bodies, Well Minds," The School Administrator, January 2008 - The entire issue of The School Administrator was dedicated to school wellness issues.
• A Toolkit for Administrators—Afterschool Programs: Bureaucratic Barriers and Strategies for Success - This hard-copy toolkit is complete with resources and tools that school leaders and their staff can use to plan, implement and sustain a quality afterschool program, including reprints of The School Administrator, School Governance & Leadership and a DVD featuring urban, suburban and rural superintendents commenting on the many issues, barriers and successes of afterschool programming.
• Back-to-School Wellness Checklist (Word) - This handy and quick checklist focuses on the prominent wellness issues affecting schools and provides action steps leaders can take to ensure a healthy academic environment.

For hard copies of any of these publications, contact Mlatibe Seidou at mseidou@aasa.org.