Health Education
Core Beliefs
Health Education is essential to the development of the whole child.
Every child deserves high quality health education which provides the skills, knowledge, and attributes for students to have the ability to lead healthy lives
High quality Health Education is student-centered and skills-based.
Tier 1 Curricular Expectations
Consistent implementation of high-quality instructional materials is the first step toward ensuring every student's success. It is expected that schools and classrooms use the following materials as the foundations of classroom instruction:
Grades 7-12 Health:
Health-Smart, a comprehensive health education curriculum provided by ETR Associations
Guidance Document for achieving the NYS Standards in Health Education
Core Instructional Actions
The Core Instructional Actions below are high-leverage, research-based strategies that will support student achievement in this discipline. This is not an exhaustive list, but a prioritized one - they are actions and strategies we expect teachers to implement in class with students.
Core Student Practices
The Core Student Practices identified below delineate the most important disciplinary practices in which we believe students should be engaged. They are actions, practices, and types of thinking that we should see evidence of students doing in class on a regular basis.