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REWARDS AND INCENTIVES
REWARDS AND INCENTIVES
If you haven’t done so already, get together a group of interested people from the school community (e.g. students, staff, parents/guardians/caregivers and other community members) to work on this badge. Be sure to engage the entire school community and provide opportunities for input as the work progresses. This will help increase buy-in from your school community.
Rewarding student achievements or behaviours with food can lead to unintended negative consequences for their relationship with food. Offering food as a reward disrupts a student’s ability to recognize their own hunger cues and promotes the belief that food must be earned. To foster a healthy relationship with food, it is better to acknowledge students’ accomplishments through non-food rewards such as positive statements, classroom privileges, extra recess, collaborative games, stickers, certificates, physical activity, or other non-food incentives.