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2015 Report to the community
TBAISD Partners to Help
Healthy Kids Learn More
Good nutrition helps
kids in the classroom
By Cathy Meyer
Traverse Bay Area
Intermediate School District
Traverse Bay Area Intermediate
School District is becoming the Farm
to School resource for regional school
districts because ample research and
evidence suggests students who eat
healthy foods become healthier in
mind and body. Therefore, they are
more available to learn.
Many students eat two-thirds of FoodCorps service members work with TBAISD to create lessons and activities
their daily calories at school, so
that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. (Photo: Renee Daggers)
there is an opportunity to influand activities that are aligned to
ence life-long habits that will bene- healthier foods and menus. This not
the Common Core State Stanfit the student. Eating healthy foods only helps the local economy and agdards and integrated into the
ricultural industry in our region, but
and living a healthy lifestyle do lead
existing subject area curricula
it gives our community a healthier
to increased student performance
• With Michigan Land Use Instiand achievement. Also, students who lifestyle with numerous benefits.
tute, providing cooking kits to
Some ways TBAISD is getting
are introduced to healthy foods and
those schools currently particihealthy choices take the information involved:
pating in Farm to School projects
home to their families who are more • Partnering with FoodCorps
• Partnering with MLUI and
encouraged to purchase and prepare
members to create lesson plans
FoodCorps to raise awareness
at the Food, Farms and Health
Conference in Traverse City
TBAISD is
• Raising awareness through anproviding
ecdotal stories, and publishing
professional
them in a way that will, hopedevelopment in
fully, build connections
creating and/
or sustaining
• Providing professional developschool
ment in creating and/or sustaingardens in
ing school gardens
northwest
• Creating video resources for
Michigan.
regional teachers
(Photo:
www.tcaps.net/departments/
Michele
Worden)
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