Bahweting Anishnabe PSA
Bahweting Anishnabe PSA
Chippewa County
1301 Marquette Avenue
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan 49783-9533
Enrollment: 300
Public School
Success Story Contact:
Greg Chromy
PE Teacher
Phone: 906-635-5055
Email: gchromy50@hotmail.com
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Success Story Information:
Reach: - Building level
- Classroom level
Duration: 1 to 3 months
Costs: - Materials/supplies
- $101 - $500
Factors for Success: - Coordinated School Health Team
- Completing an assessment (such as Healthy School Action Tool, School Health Index, Changing the Scene)
- Administrative support
- Funding
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WALKING CLUB/PEDOMETER PROGRAM
SUCCESS STORY
As a health team, we decided it was very important to get not only the students active but everybody in the school. We set our sights on the staff and administration of the school and then the students because our staff members are role models. We knew if we got the staff excited about exercising, it would transfer to the students.
We started our walking/pedometer program for our staff two weeks before we started a pedometer program for the students. Over 70 percent of the staff participated and were excited. I would see them in the halls comparing steps. The staff’s program made the students curious, so our Physical Education Department started a pedometer program for the students. We are currently trying to get each class to get 80,000 steps during the school day. Teachers have shared with me how students are now walking around the room and reading just to get more steps.
It has worked very well getting the staff excited first so they are on board and then transferring this excitement to the students! We are now getting fit and having fun getting fit as a school!
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