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 The K-6 adopted curriculum is The Great Body Shop (GBS). This is a comprehensive health education curriculum that covers the 10 topic areas of health while promoting critical thinking as the best way to avoid preventable illness and injury.
This research-based curriculum is included on the National Registry of Effective Programs, has been rated as excellent in CASEL's Safe and Sound List of Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs, and has been identified as reducing high-risk behaviors and increasing protective factors by The Center for Evaluation and Research with Children and Adolescents (CERCA).
In 2007-08, ASD hired Health/Social and Emotional Learning Specialists to teach health full-time for all grade levels. They teach at two or three different schools on a rotating bases. Health is taught with fidelity and through interactive and hands-on activities. Talk with your student about his/her health class. If you have questions, contact the health teacher.
Sixth graders in middle school learn health as an extension of, and in conjunction with, their science curriculum. The adopted curriculum, as with the elementary schools, is The Great Body Shop.
One semester of eighth-grade health is required of all middle school students. A curriculum and pacing guide has been developed for teachers. The adopted text is Health, Prentice Hall, 2010. Talk with your student or his/her health teacher if you have any questions about the curriculum content or the instructional approach or strategies.
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ASD does not have a requirement for health to graduate. However, there is a graduation requirement of 1.5 PE credits. Therefore, any health course taken during high school is allotted PE or elective credit. The current high school offerings in health are: Health Life Skills and First Aid. Healthy Relationships/Sexuality Education, a new semester-long, elective course, is offered as a pilot at East High School (see Sexuality Education at ASD section below). Watch for this course to expand to other high schools in the 2011-12 school year.
New courses will be developed in the next couple of years with input from students and to promote future employment in a wide variety of health careers. During the 2008-09 school year, the King Career Center and Service High School piloted certificate courses in the area of Personal Care Assistant with considerable success. The plan is to build on these successes as a districtwide health care career pathway takes shape. Watch for courses like Health Occupation Essentials, Medical Terminology, Introduction to Pharmacology and Certified Nurse Aide offered in the 3rd session (or after the regular school day) at KCC and selected high schools.
Sexuality Education Guidelines for Instruction K‐12 (PDF)
School Board Memo 167 (December 6, 2010) - Approval of High School Elective Course: Healthy Relationships/Sexuality Education (PDF)
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