Posts Tagged "New Jersey"

Learning Healthy Food Can Be Tasty – Video

Posted by The CATCH Team on Jul 26, 2011 in CATCH News | 0 comments

CATCH Pro Addresses National School Board Association (NSBA)

Posted by The CATCH Team on Apr 11, 2011 in CATCH News, CATCH School, Coordinated School Health, The CATCH Programs | 0 comments

New Jersey Education Leader Shares the Secrets of Her Success in Coordinated School Health Programming Judy LoBianco – Supervisor of Health, Physical Education and Nursing Services at South Orange-Maplewood School District in New Jersey – spoke at the 71st Annual NSBA Conference, April 9-11, in San Francisco, California. Her speech – For the Health of It! Building a Successful Coordinated School Health Program – covered what makes coordinated school health programming work. According to Judy, a former CATCH Champion: The CATCH program at Jefferson and Seth Boyden Elementary Schools is an amazing story. We’ve adopted not just the CATCH...

Interview with Andrea McPhatter Supervisor of Youth Programs, Township of Irvington, NJ

Posted by The CATCH Team on Oct 1, 2010 in CATCH After School, Nutrition, Physical Activity | 0 comments

What prompted you to be an advocate and champion of children’s health?  I truly believe that our children are our future, and so, it is our duty as adults and parents to help secure our future. This obesity epidemic will cause great devastation to our communities if we do not work to reverse this horrible trend. We read about how obesity is causing premature deaths, diabetes, heart disease…etc, but, we also overlook the impact obesity has because it restricts and limits basic human functional movement.  More people are suffering low back, neck, knee injuries through performing basic movements such lifting and pulling. For instance, the US Military are saying that...

Interview with Maureen Nelson Physical Education/Creative Movement and Dance Teacher South Orange/Maplewood, New Jersey

Posted by The CATCH Team on Jul 1, 2010 in CATCH School, Health and Physical Activity Resources | 0 comments

What prompted you to be an advocate and champion of children’s health? My professional education and career both as a Dance Movement Therapist and a Physical Educator have been driven by my love of helping children explore and express themselves through movement.  I make an effort to teach children to learn to respect and appreciate both their body and mind.  Hopefully they come to the realization that the two cannot be separated. Good health embodies the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive elements of one’s Self. When did you adopt the CATCH Program and what prompted you to do so? At Seth Boyden, we adopted the CATCH program in the Fall of 2009. Our...

CATCH Healthy Eating Program Introduced at Seth Boyden

Posted by The CATCH Team on Feb 1, 2010 in CATCH News, CATCH School | 0 comments

by Mary Mann of the Maplewood Patch I knew something was up last night when my kindergarten-age daughter told me she needed to dress in green like a vegetable for school today. Her verdant attire was a part of the kickoff for the CATCH program that was introduced to parents and students at Seth Boyden Demonstration School on January 8th at two special assemblies. The CATCH program, which was introduced at Jefferson School in September 2007, has been able to expand to a second district school due to a Physical Education for Progress grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Seth Boyden’s assemblies (one assembly for grades 3-5 and one for K-2) were informative,...