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This presentation focuses on a collaboration of San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco Unified School District and 21 non-profit community agencies serving youth. A big part of the discussion focuses on how social media can complement in classroom learning in high school.
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Really?!? We Get To Learn About THAT in School?
Christopher Pepper SFUSD Health Education Teacher
MrHealthTeacher.com
Remember Sex Ed?
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When we talk about sexuality education in schools, it’s often
framed as “abstinence-only sex ed” vs.
“comprehensive sex ed.”
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“Comprehensive” is a pretty big word, and it makes me wonder:
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If sex ed were truly “comprehensive,” what would it
need to include?
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In San Francisco, we decided to take on that question
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For almost two years, a dedicated group of health care providers and
educators from different organizations have worked to create a fantastic new sex ed curriculum for San Francisco
high schools
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We asked all these groups to bring us their best materials, and from that we created a set of lessons for use in the
classroom.
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We hope this curriculum will become the standard used throughout the city,
and possibly a model for others.
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Some of the things we were aiming for in creating our
curriculum:
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It should be inclusive of all genders and all types of
relationships, and include lots of diversity in all examples.
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Students should get a chance to practice skills, not just listen to
instruction.
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It should include a lot of information about loving yourself, having healthy relationships, and what
“enthusiastic consent” means.
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We should use the class to create a close connection
between students and their nearest health clinic (and the
people who work there).
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So where do we start?
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We start with a tour of our local clinic, which happens to be right
at our school
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Then we begin to talk about healthy relationships
We have a lessons on how to plan a first date
How to deal with a break-up
How to recognize warning signs of abuse in relationships
And how to build a positive relationship based on honesty, equality, mutual desire and fun.
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We talk about gender roles and incorporate the excellent film “Straightlaced: How Gender’s
Got Us All Tied Up”
We explore LGBTQQI issues and talk about what it means to
be an ally
We thoroughly cover sexual anatomy, physiology and
development
That means talking about menstruation, masturbation, the
sexual response cycle and what’s “normal”
Of course, we also explain pregnancy and birth
We have a panel of teen moms come talk about how
challenging their lives are
And we try to give as much “hands on” exposure to different types of birth control as we can
No one leaves class without
practicing putting on a
condom
When we talk about STIs, we cover risk reduction, how to get tested, and the facts about what these infections do in a person’s
body
Using lessons from “Positive Prevention,” we cover HIV/AIDS
in depth
We like to close this section by having an HIV-positive speaker
talk to the class
As we move toward the end of the unit, we invite peer
educators to explain minor consent rights
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We guide students through activities designed to help them explore the question “Are you
ready for sex?”
The final project in this unit involves using some of the great
sex ed websites for teens to research questions their classmates submitted
anonymously
As we roll this curriculum out, we plan to tie the lessons to a
social media/text campaign developed by YTH