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Native Schools Project |
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| The Serving Native Schools Project (SNS)
was developed to create diabetes sensitive curriculum
that is culturally-based and technology-based. It is managed
by the Oceti Sakowin Education Consortium (OSEC). The
Oceti Sakowin Distance Education Consortium has membership
spanning eight reservations and twenty-three schools serving
Native American children. |
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| Project Goal and Objectives |
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Goal: To assist member
schools in reviewing, rewriting and making physical education
standards that center on diabetes prevention. To achieve
the goal the project will . . .
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Objective A: Create collaborative
teams to revise standards for the schools. The teams will
be comprised of physical education instructors and local
health services personnel. |
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Objective B: Assist schools in implementation
of standards through the purchase of physical monitoring
equipment that includes computers, heart rate monitors,
blood sugar monitors, etc. |
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Objective C: Create a web-site for
dissemination of the standards and to provide information
related to diabetes prevention |
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| Diabetes prevention is a need in Native
American communities. Sources like Indian Health Service,
indicate that diabetes is the most common cause of death
in our communities. Many health services organizations
have attended to diabetes in both treatment and prevention
but have had little affect. These efforts are usually
targeted to changing adult behaviors either after the
onset of the disease or as part of adult education. Unfortunately
the patterns of life behavior, eating and exercise, are
set when a person is young and are difficult to change
as they get into adulthood. The OSEC is bringing together
health services professionals and school physical education
(PE) faculty to design K-12 diabetes sensitive PE curriculum
standards. Key components of these standards will be the
introduction of technologies to monitor key diabetes related
systems. In particular, heart rate, blood pressure, glucose
levels and weight/body fat will be monitored. Students
will be directly involved from Kindergarten to 12th grade
by taking charge of monitoring their own information and
then placing that information on a growth spreadsheet.
These spreadsheets will follow students through the school
systems until graduation. An outgrowth of the project
will be for seniors to graduate with a diploma and a wellness
plan that has taught them to monitor their own health
and to have a plan for maintaining that health into adulthood. |
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