Wellness Program
The Trumansburg Education Foundation has made it part of its mission to support student wellness, as doing so is critical to ensuring students are ready to learn. We are incredibly grateful for a generous gift from the Duddleston family that supports this part of our mission.
What is wellness? Wellness is defined as an overall state of health and wellbeing and, as such, encompasses all dimensions of health and wellbeing. One established, widely adopted framework of wellness is the eight dimension model:
Physical Wellness
Social Wellness
Emotional Wellness
Intellectual Wellness
Vocational Wellness
Environmental Wellness
Spiritual Wellness
Financial Wellness
TEF strives to view and support wellness through a health equity lens to ensure everyone has equal opportunity to achieve wellness by addressing barriers (e.g., discrimination, poverty) and their consequences.
CURRENT TEF Wellness Initiatives
BREATHE FOR CHANGE - WELLNESS, S.E.L. & YOGA TEACHER TRAINING, $1,995 (SPRING 2022)
In honor of the Duddleston Family gift dedicated to Wellness initiatives, we are proud to support a 200-hour program that will allow a Trumansburg middle school teacher to become certified to teach yoga classes to students and adults in the district, beginning with 6th grade and, eventually, extending to the elementary and high schools.
GIRLS ON THE RUN (GOTR)
(Spring 2022)
Girls on the Run® is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, “dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.” The mission of GOTR is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. The GOTR core values include nurturing physical, emotional, and spiritual health. To learn more about this program, please visit https://www.girlsontherun.org/. Trumansburg Girls on the Run kicks off its second season, as a GOTR Upstate NY team, in March 2022, after a 2-year COVID hiatus. With TEF’s support, the Trumansburg team was able to reduce the cost of participation from $150 to $60 per girl to help ensure this impactful program is accessible to all 3-5th grade girls in our school district who want to join.
FUTURE TEF Wellness Initiatives
Future TEF Wellness initiatives depend on the needs and interests of our educators and community! TEF aims to expand programming across multiple dimensions of wellness with a particular interest in supporting initiatives aiming to enhance social and emotional wellness. We are thrilled to have over $20,000 in funding allocated for programs geared toward wellness that will help us to grow these programs over the next several years. We encourage grant applications that would offer opportunities to meet this need and to carry on the legacy of the Duddleston family gift. Please see our Grants & Awards page for additional information on how we can help to support your wellness initiatives.
Past TEF Wellness Initiatives
RAINBOW SALAD DAYS
Each October, Pre-K through Grade 4 students enjoy a free salad, funded by the Trumansburg Education Foundation. Students are encouraged to choose at least three vegetables of different colors for their lunch. In 2017, there was lettuce, corn and beans, tomatoes, peppers, candy stripe beets, cauliflower, broccoli, watermelon radishes, carrots, and cucumbers. Special thanks go out to the Trumansburg Elementary Food Service staff for their extra efforts with this wellness program.
Big Apple Crunch
During the “Big Apple Crunch,” students all over New York State bite into a fresh, local apple from a New York State orchard at the same time. Trumansburg students are lucky to be surrounded with an abundance of apple orchards, and this year, students got to taste samples of heirloom apples from Black Diamond Farm in the Middle School, and also Cornell’s newest introduction, “Snapdragon” and “Ruby Frost” in the High School. The Trumansburg Education Foundation purchased additional local apples to make sure all students in the district had one to eat at the designated time. The Big Apple Crunch is just one example of farm-to-school activities supported by the Foundation, helping kids connect to local farms and fresh food in our area.
Tastings
In 2017, students in the Middle School got to sample sautéed kale grown by fellow students after school, and served by Dave Gell and Sarah Glenn. Trumansburg students in all school buildings will be invited to sample more tastings of fresh local food starting in January 2018 during their lunch periods.