Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Nutrition Workshops for Teachers

Series of eight teacher professional development workshops building nutrition knowledge and self-efficacy so teachers can deliver SNAP-Ed direct education in classrooms.

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Nutrition Workshops for Teachers is a direct education intervention designed to increase the knowledge and self-efficacy of teachers, in order to support them in providing SNAP-Ed direct education in their classroom. HBHM is a series of 8 workshops that provide background nutrition information, as well as ideas and resources for incorporating nutrition and physical activity into the school day. These teacher trainings are not designed to be delivered in isolation, but instead should be offered as part of a more comprehensive model of programming. SNAP-Ed resources should be provided to teachers as part of the series and professional development topics should align with these resources. When possible, SNAP-Ed staff should be supporting the site with PSE change to support the nutrition education programming and increase opportunities for students to make healthy choices.

Evidence: Practice-based; teachers' nutrition-teaching self-efficacy rose significantly vs. control; cost-effective train-the-trainer model

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