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Review the progress and goals of the Health Education Program across K-12, focusing on curriculum development, sexual health education, stakeholder input, and challenges.
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Health Board Report 1.21.19
Program Overview (1-2 minutes) • The Health Education Program serves all students K-12 in each Prairie building. • The Health Education Program is designed to improve health and health literacy skills and understandings for all students. • Staffing includes classroom teachers, PE, teachers, school counselors, and school nurses. A Health and Wellness Curriculum Council with K-12 representatives from teach staffing group meets twice during the school year.
Overview of Prior Year’s Goals & Results (3-5 minutes) • Establish a guaranteed and viable curriculum for health education using the National Health Education Standards (NHES) across grade levels and settings • Standards distributed across grade levels • Recommendations gathered for setting for teaching standards • Review current approaches to teaching sexual health education • Completed review of current sexual health education program • Planning for improvements in sexual health education program
Current Year’s Goals (5-7 minutes) • Establish a guaranteed and viable curriculum for health education using the National Health Education Standards (NHES) across grade levels and settings. • Develop learning experiences (including settings and approaches for teaching standards through a skill development approach) • Document learning experiences through curriculum mapping system • Gather input from stakeholder groups in the development of a comprehensive sexual health education program. • Assemble a community input group (including parents, students, school staff, and community organizations) to provide input into questions related to a comprehensive sexual health education program aligned with state guidelines, student and community needs, and best-practice recommendations from the field.
Anticipated Challenges and/or Roadblocks to Success (1-3 minutes) • Communication and implementation of the guaranteed and viable curriculum for health education across the K-12 system • To address this challenge, the scaled-up curriculum council will focus on developing learning experiences
Support Needed / Implications for the Board (1-3 minutes) • Continue to advocate for the education of the whole child (including health education) • Involvement in the community input sessions in relation to sexual health education
Questions from the Board (3 minutes)