More Than A Meal: IDEA Campuses Use Food, Fitness To Promote Overall Student Wellness

Arlington TX

06 May, 2022

5:20 AM

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By Kristen Barton, Fort Worth Report May 5, 2022 When students arrive at Fort Worth IDEA campuses, they are greeted with a healthy breakfast like yogurt and oats. When they go to P.E., they strap on heart monitors to make sure they're staying active the entire class. Michella McCoy, athletic coordinator and PE teacher for the IDEA College Prep campus, said she focuses not only on physical wellness, but also social and emotional health. In class, McCoy's students wear a heart rate monitor to make sure they stay in a rigorous, fat-burning zone, she said. There are goals for the students to hit for their amount of exercise minutes and prizes when they meet them. The program brings awareness about fitness to the class, McCoy said. The monitors keep students interested, and it brings healthy competition to the class. Students eagerly ask her for updates on their exercise minutes, she said. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.