Health Education
A planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive health education curriculum includes a variety of topics such as personal health, family health, community health, consumer health, environmental health, sexuality education, mental and emotional health, injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and control of disease, and substance use and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers provide health education.
What's happenning with 9-R health education?
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- SJBHD (San Juan Basin Health Department) provides speakers for health classes on sex education, smoking prevention, safety, etc.
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- The Comprehensive Health Education Grant is focusing on nutrition education and physical activity in the elementary schools.
Contact: Jenny Pritchard
jpritchard@durango.k12.co.us
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- Animas Valley: looking into Brain Gym program, CSH team presented power point to staff and have identified strengths and weaknesses within the building.
- Needham: health tips in class each day.
- Escalante: developing an action plan for our school based School Health Index.
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