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Human Growth & Development/Sexual Health Education: In the Walnut Creek School District, comprehensive sexual health education is implemented as a part of Health education. All curricula follow CA Education Code requirements, including new topics required by the CA Healthy Youth Act. Human Growth & Development education aims to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, as well as assist students with developing interpersonal skills, responsible behavior, and goal setting. Our adopted Positive Prevention Plus curriculum emphasizes decision-making and refusal skills, identifying healthy and unhealthy relationships, and communicating with trusted adults about sexual health.
POSITIVE PREVENTION PLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
SAMPLE Parent Notification Letter (Middle School)
Human Growth & Development/Puberty Education: In Walnut Creek School District, puberty education is provided to 5th grade students as part of their spring curriculum. The California Healthy Youth Act requires school districts to provide students with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention education. The purpose of this instruction is to:
- Provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, and relationships
- Promote understanding of puberty as a normal part of human development
- Provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to have healthy, positive, and safe relationships and behaviors
- Encourage students to cummunicate with parents, guardians, or other trusted adults
5th GRADE CURRICULUM RESOURCES
5th Grade Growth and Development Curriculum
California Healthy Youth Act (Ed. Code)
SAMPLE Parent Notification Letter (5th Grade)
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Human Growth & Development/Sexual Health Education: In the Walnut Creek School District, comprehensive sexual health education is implemented as a part of Health education. All curricula follow CA Education Code requirements, including new topics required by the CA Healthy Youth Act. Human Growth & Development education aims to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, as well as assist students with developing interpersonal skills, responsible behavior, and goal setting. Our adopted Positive Prevention Plus curriculum emphasizes decision-making and refusal skills, identifying healthy and unhealthy relationships, and communicating with trusted adults about sexual health.
POSITIVE PREVENTION PLUS MIDDLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:
SAMPLE Parent Notification Letter (Middle School) -
Human Growth & Development/Puberty Education: In Walnut Creek School District, puberty education is provided to 5th grade students as part of their spring curriculum. The California Healthy Youth Act requires school districts to provide students with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention education. The purpose of this instruction is to:
- Provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, and relationships
- Promote understanding of puberty as a normal part of human development
- Provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to have healthy, positive, and safe relationships and behaviors
- Encourage students to cummunicate with parents, guardians, or other trusted adults
5th GRADE CURRICULUM RESOURCES5th Grade Growth and Development Curriculum
California Healthy Youth Act (Ed. Code)
SAMPLE Parent Notification Letter (5th Grade)
PARENT/GUARDIAN INFORMATION (Including instructions for opting out of instruction)
Parents/guardians may excuse their child from certain aspects of the Human Growth & Development instruction for this school year by providing an electronic, printed, or hand-written note in their preferred language to their child’s teacher. The note should simply state that they are excusing their child from the instruction, include their child’s name, and be generated or signed by the parent or guardian. There is no need for any reason to be stated in this note. The classroom teacher will then reach out to the parent to go over which content the parent would like their child excused from. Students excused from the Human Growth & Development instruction will receive alternative health-related assignments to complete during the instructional time.
School sites will send a letter to parents/guardians that explains their right to review the crriculum prior to instruction and their right to excuse their child from the instruction. The letter will include the following information:
- Comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention instruction is provided by trained classroom teachers or community-based health educators
- All content complies with California Health Youth Act and CA Education Code requirements
- When the instruction will be implemented at their child’s school
- When parents/guardians can review instructional materials at their child’s school
- That parents/guardians may notify the school in writing if they wish to excuse their child from the instruction