The Clarke County Board of Education is committed to student wellness as a vital component of the School District's educational program. It is the Board's belief that:

• Children need healthful foods and need opportunities to be physically active in order to grow, learn and thrive;

• Good health is essential to foster better student attendance and achievement;

• A strong District wellness program will have a positive, lasting effect on students;

• Community participation is essential to the development and implementation of a successful District wellness program; and,

• District educators should exercise the same leadership with respect to wellness that they do with respect to academics.

Each local school is required to have a Wellness Champion. The Wellness Champion will use a coordinated approach to support student health, promote healthy behaviors, and ensure the school's compliance with CCSD's wellness policy. The school-level wellness plan applies to all students, staff, and schools within the district. If you are interested in participating in a particular school’s wellness efforts, please reach out to the school’s Wellness Champion.

The Wellness Champion in conjunction with their school-level wellness team will focus on ensuring the school environment not only promotes but also provides opportunities for all students (and even staff) to practice healthy eating and physical activity behaviors throughout the school day.

Areas of focus may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Access to healthy foods throughout the school day— both through reimbursable school meals and through other foods available throughout the school campus— in accordance with Smart Snacks in School Nutrition Standards;

• Receive quality nutrition education that helps promote lifelong healthy eating behaviors;

• Provide opportunities to be physically active before, during, and after school;

• Promote nutrition and physical activity through engaging, cross-curricular lessons and activities;

• Encourage and provide opportunities for school staff to practice balanced nutrition and physical activity behaviors in and out of school;

• Limit food and beverage marketing and advertising to items that meet USDA’s Smart Snacks in School Nutrition Standards;

• Support the work of the district by creating continuity between school and other community settings for students and staff to practice lifelong healthy habits; and

• Establish and maintain an infrastructure for management, oversight, implementation, communication, and evaluation of the school’s compliance with CCSD’s policy and its established goals and objectives as outlined in the district’s strategic plan.

The District Wellness Council (DWC) will engage students, parents, teachers, school nutrition professionals, health professionals, other district administrators and staff, and other interested community partners in developing, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing district-wide policy. 

The DWC meets four times per year to establish goals and oversee school health and safety policies and programs, increase public knowledge regarding activities of the wellness program, and assist with reviewing and updating the District Wellness Plan.  For those interested in joining the District Wellness Committee, please email Paula Farmer at farmerp@clarke.k12.ga.us.

2024-2025 District Wellness Council Meeting Dates:

• August 28, 2024 

• October 30, 2024 

• February 4, 2025

• May 6, 2025

To access the entire wellness policy (Board Policy EEE), click here.

To submit input on the Wellness Policy or implementation of the Wellness Policy, click here. 

To access the LWP Triennial Assessment, click here.

To access the Smart Snacks Calculator (used for schools fundraising with food), click here.