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The Boulder Valley School District Health Education Program provides comprehensive, skill-based, age appropriate classroom instruction that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. Embedded in the health curricula are content and skills that are crucial for students to know, understand, and be able to do in order to achieve and maintain optimal health and minimize negative health behaviors. Within this program, there is a heavy emphasis on developing health enhancing personal behaviors that can be used in real-world interactions both inside and outside the school setting and throughout life. |
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What Health Standards are Taught in BVSD?
Boulder Valley School District's Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum is grounded in the bodies of sound pedagogy and public health research, and is framed by health behavior theory. The foundation of current BVSD health curricula was developed over three years through an extensive community-input process, with the most recent revision to both content and format taking place in 2009.
Boulder Valley School District Health Education Content Standards
- physical wellness
- mental health / emotional wellness
- violence awareness
- substance use, abuse, and addicition
- human growth and development / human sexuality
- injury prevention and safety
Boulder Valley School District Health Education Process Standards
how to effectively access resources
practice healthy behaviors
analyze personal and societal influences
communicate effectively about health issues
set goals and make health-related decisions
advocate for self, family, friends and community
For more information about BVSD's Health Education Standards, click here. |
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- Secondary Health teachers are asked to have a minimum of 24 semester hours of coursework in health education or a related field, or to have taken the PLACE Test for health education
- Elementary classroom teachers receive mandatory training before teaching the 5th grade puberty unit.
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Elementary:
- 15 minutes per day or the equivalent in grades K-5
- 5th grade students receive an expanded unit on human growth and development / human sexuality, with a focus on physical, mental, emotional, and social changes that occur during puberty
Secondary:
- one quarter in 7th grade,
- one quarter in 8th grade
- one semester in 10th grades
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Approved Elementary Learning Materials:
- Health Promotion Wave, Grades K-5 (English and Spanish)
- Mediacast Streaming
Approved Secondary Learning Materials:
- Health Promotion Wave, Grades 6-12 (English and Spanish)
- Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education, Grades 7-9
- Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education, Grades 10-12
- Everyone Counts: A Resource Guide on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues for Middle School Administrators and Teachers
- Everyone Counts: A Resource Guide on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues for High School Administrators and Teachers
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Consistent with best practice protocol, BVSD’s Health Education Program works collaboratively with the seven other Coordinated School Health (CSH) component areas to ensure all students achieve academically by increasing learning capacity and reducing absenteeism. To learn more about this initiative, click here. |
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