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Recommendation #1 Make Water FREE and ACCESSIBLE to All Students <br /> • Provide cups with school lunch to encourage students to drink water <br /> • Provide a "hydration station" in the student cafeteria or school lobby' <br /> • Establish a marketing campaign to promote water consumption. Water consumption <br /> can be incorporated into lessons on biology, health, nutrition, and physical education <br /> • Maintain clean and functioning water fountains <br /> • Develop a policy on the availability of drinking water at school <br /> Findings <br /> = 62% of the student population do not find it easy to get water <br /> Barriers to water consumption include warm, unappealing water, too few <br /> fountains, and poor maintenance of fountains <br /> Why We Care <br /> Water is an essential nutrient with no <br /> calories. We care a about this <br /> because students are not getting • • " <br /> enough water, which means they are . <br /> likely to consume calories from ' 4 V <br /> ; z• t k} :r <br /> sweetened beverages, thus increasing . :F } ` y* - <br /> their chance of becoming obese. . <br /> When conducting an observational i <br /> ;4'g 1;c n <br /> assessment on campus, ACT found an < <br /> average of 10 fountains. L r� <br /> Under current law, schools are only ' , e ,g i'' ,.., E �`*`•� t �' a - ti 's <br /> required to have one drinking ` <br /> fountain for every 150 people in K -12 <br /> schools. A 1999 memo from former <br /> Superintendent of Public Instruction <br /> Dirty Water Fountain at San Leandro High School <br /> Delaine Eastin indicated that this <br /> ratio was "obviously inadequate ". With nearly 2,600 students at San Leandro High School, <br /> there is a need to increase the water fountains to match the student ratio. There is a <br /> state effort to ensure drinking water is available to all students. If passed, Senate Bill <br /> 1413 will require schools across the state to make fresh drinking water available in <br /> cafeterias and food service areas by January 1, 2012. San Leandro High School can be a <br /> leader by implementing such a plan before 2012. <br /> Recommendation # 2 Allow Adequate Time for Students to Eat Lunch <br /> • Increase lunch time by 10 minutes for a total of 45 minutes <br /> Findings - <br /> t I , <br /> � 'a . 4 <br /> t The Berkeley Unified School District provides tap water for students during lunch i ' 0 1 1 ; ; j , if, . _ _ - ,; <br /> area has a five gallon water container that is refilled each day with tap water and r • y , -. -.. — 0, ‘ , <br /> According to the manager of nutrition services at Berkeley Unified, the cost of provi 4 - <br /> kit -. r <br /> spends Less than five minutes per day on set -up, and consumption is "enormous." "1 I • { <br /> Challenges, Promising Practices, and Next Steps," October 2009. Catifomia Food Pot! -'+ -,; <br /> ' 'School Building, Health and Sanitation Code Requirements, - Code Compliance Respansibili , ,.• a .. 7. of Education. Available at htt p : // www. cde. ca. gov /Is /fa /sf /sfpd9902sanicode.asp. - t <br /> Advocating Change Together (ACT): A Program of Girls Incorporate Long Lunch Lines at San Leandro High School <br /> School Wellness Policy Recommendations 2010 -2011 - WriS <br /> Endorsed by the San Leandro Youth Advisory Commission on May 17 2010 MMMC • <br /> of Mamma. Crt, <br /> c...... ---, <br />