This guide presents a five-step approach to planning, conducting, and evaluating a community-school health advisory council. The five steps are: (1) convening an advisory council (learning about community-school health advisory councils, obtaining support from the school district, identifying potential members, organizing and conducting the first meeting, and following up); (2) creating a vision and building ownership (planning the next meeting to create a vision, establishing ground rules, and developing a vision); (3) developing an action plan (planning the next meeting on writing an action plan, confirming the council's vision, describing the relationship of change and planning, and writing an action plan); (4) taking action and getting results (designing a structure for the council's work, creating a plan for marketing the council's efforts, and handling conflict); and (5) maintaining momentum (evaluating the council's efforts, holding an annual renewal meeting, revitalizing council membership, expanding school health improvement efforts, and considering conducting a needs assessment). Six appendixes present: "Improving School Health: A Guide to School Health Councils"; a meeting planner; scripts and transparencies; "School Health Programs: An Investment in Our Nation's Future"; an agenda for future meetings; and information on conducting a needs assessment. A disk is included in order to print out transparencies. (Contains 20 references.) (SM)