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| Project Leader: | Jacob Szeszulski, Ph.D. Jacob.Szeszulski@agnet.tamu.edu Nutrition and Food Science |
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Meeting Times:
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Team Size:
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7
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Team members who are creative or have strong writing/analytic skills may have additional opportunities to publish or coauthor conference abstracts, manuscripts, or generate products that share information with community stakeholders. Team members in the Dallas area may have opportunities to be involved with additional data collection (i.e., interviews or surveys).
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Team Needs:
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Team member should be familiar with healthy physical activity and nutrition practices, be able to meticulously analyze documents following systematic processes, and be able to work well with other team members to discuss differences to a resolution. Most team meetings will occur virtually, but 1-2 meetings per semester may occur in person |
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Description:
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The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 is federal legislation that supports continued delivery of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP). However, it also requires each school district in the United States to develop a locally tailored wellness policy (LWP) that sets goals for improving their schools’ physical activity and nutrition environments. This project will examine the content and quality of Texas school districts’ (~1,200) LWPs. Team members will learn about the history behind LWPs, practice quantitative and qualitative methods for analyzing LWPs, and conduct analyses to begin to understand how LWPs differ by a district’s demographic characteristics, as well as how LWPs change over time |