Improve school food quality by writing and enforcing local school wellness policies

• Change Lab Solutions has a helpful guide to enforcing wellness policies.
• This is a useful tool to assess existing Wellness Policies (from dakmed.org, in pdf format).

Start or join a Local School Wellness Council or Food Policy Council

Create a consistently healthy school food culture

For example, replace unhealthy food-based fundraisers with alternative fundraising. There are lots of healthy fruit, vegetable or other savory snack options that could be considered for such events, in addition to many non-food approaches.  A wide range of non-food fundraiser alternatives are detailed in the following great resources:

• www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/mass-in-motion/school-nutrition-guide.pdf  (pages 29-31)
• www.cspinet.org/schoolfundraising.pdf

Ask your school district for food literacy curriculum

For a sample curriculum see, for example, foodday.org.

Start a learning garden at your school

• edibleschoolyard.org 
• thekitchencommunity.org/learning-gardens

Get a Food Corps member to work with your school

You can find out more at foodcorps.org