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WELLKIDS Program

The Infinity Wellness Foundation will apply its WELLKIDS program for youth and young adults ages 8 -13 and involving a varying student size.  The classes will:

  • Take place once to twice a week for a duration of 60 minutes
  • Integrate TOTAL wellness across aerobic/cardio games, strength training, yoga, meditation, and stretching
  • Intersperse 10-12 minute bouts of physical activity alternated with mini-educational lessons.
  • Include weekly homework assignment
  • Provide nutritious snacks
  • Incorporate field trips to park and a local fitness club
  • Include certificate with completion of program

Brief Program Overview & Rationale

  • Apply non-traditional physical education approaches to increase physical activity
  • Utilize TOTAL wellness concepts to enhance health and fitness across mind, body, and spirit
  • Empower youth and young adults to make lifestyle changes modifying lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating patterns

Program Objectives

  • Acquire knowledge of relationship between wellness and self-image, academic performance, higher energy, and better mood
  • Model positive behaviors to overcome major obstacles to health lifestyles – willpower and stress
  • Break traditional mold of competitive physical education programs with total wellness curriculum incorporating nutrition, cardiovascular and strength training, flexibility and mind/body (yoga and meditation)

Program Outcomes

  • Acquire knowledge of relationships between physical fitness and positive self-image and body fitness, improved academic performance, higher energy, and strength levels
  • Learn basics and importance of good nutrition and apply them to understanding nutrition labeling on packaged food, choosing healthier eating and snack options, and substituting water for sugary drinks
  • Be inspired by positive adult role models to learn skills to achieve total wellness and increase physical activity

Nutrition Topics – Selected

  • Food pyramid and labeling
  • Healthy weight
  • Body Image
  • Hydration

Evaluation Plan

  • Pre/post survey of students to assess knowledge, attitude, and behavior change
  • Pre/post measurement (i.e., BMI)
  • Interviews of teachers and administrators to assess attendance and retention

WELLTEACHER Program

The Infinity Wellness Foundation will develop a training program and workshop for teachers to:

  • Support transitions in the classroom to channel student energy and
  • Encourage movement in the classroom to enhance student learning.

The series will provide:

  • 90-minute training program on classroom transitions and movement
  • Step-by-step training on a series of movements for students to energize, focus, and calm
  • A handbook of exercises for easy reference
  • Follow up workshop 90-minute workshop on the application of movements in the classroom
  • Certificate with completion of program

Brief Program Overview & Rationale

  • Build skill and confidence for teachers to apply movement patterns in the classroom to enhance student learning
  • Apply Mind/Body movements – yoga and meditation – to the classroom to increase memory, concentration, and motivation
  • Utilize TOTAL wellness concepts to enhance the health and fitness of students

Program Objectives

  • Impart knowledge, practical skills, and self-confidence for teachers to lead movement patterns in the classroom
  • Break traditional mold of physical education as outside the classroom with total wellness curriculum incorporating flexibility, stretching, and mind/body (i.e., yoga and meditation)
  • Impart knowledge, practical skills, and self-confidence for students to apply to their lives at work and play

Program Outcomes

  • Acquire knowledge of relationships between movement and to be energized, focused, and calm
  • Learn basics and importance of physical activity in life
  • Be inspired by positive adult role models – teachers – to learn skills to achieve total wellness and increase physical activity

Movement Series

  • Energize
  • Focus
  • Calm

Evaluation Plan

  • Pre/post survey of students to assess knowledge, attitude, and behavior change
  • Interviews of teachers and administrators to assess attention and retention