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OAISD Health and Physical Education
Winter, 2023/24 Newsletter
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OAISD Health and Physical Education Mission Statement
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2024 Health and Physical Education Trainings
A Silent Crisis: Creating Safe and Supportive Schools for LGBTQ Students
April 11, 2024 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Kent ISD
In collaboration with Kent ISD, Ottawa Area ISD is offering this training to help school personnel and administrators, understand, assess, and improve school climate and safety for all youth, especially those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning.
HIV/AIDS Teacher Certification Training (Virtual)
January 25, 2025 from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. with pre-work
- Legal obligations on HIV and sex education in Michigan schools
- Overview of HIV/STI prevention, transmission, testing and treatment
- Required content including emphasis on abstinence
- Effective curriculum for HIV and reproductive health education
- The role of the Sex Education Advisory Board Guidance with answering students’ sensitive questions
Teaching Puberty in Elementary School
February 23, 2024 from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
This in-person training for educators is designed to help you feel more comfortable and confident about teaching puberty education. This training will focus on the changes that occur around the onset of puberty and includes physical, social and emotional changes that occur once sex hormones are produced in the body. It will also focus on hygiene, media literacy and healthy relationships. You will leave with numerous resources to help build your puberty "toolbox."
Health Ambassadors: Emerging Drug Trends
April 25, 2024 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The OAISD will be collaborating with the Ottawa Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition for a 1/2 day training on emerging drug trends among youth in our community.
Save the Date for the "Connecting with Kids Through School Health" Conference put on by MiSHCA
The Connecting with Kids through School Health Conference focuses on the Whole Child. The conference theme encompasses leadership, partnership, strategies and programs that support student well-being.
Conference audience: Administrators, Teachers, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, Intervention Specialists, School-Based Health Center Staff, Prevention Workers, Nutrition Educators, School Health Coordinators, and anyone interested in supporting healthy students.
Would you like to be a presenter?
There is not much time left to fill out this MiSHCA Presenter Application. Submissions are due by January 5, 2024.
What's New in Health Education?
Contact List for Health and Physical Education Teachers
Need SEAB Resources and Materials?
New Law on Student Consent and Sexual Assault
MDE has until June of 2024 to develop the material in consultation with experts and advocates. - Bridge Michigan
Michigan Model for Health
Experience Michigan's Tier 1, evidence-based Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum: Michigan Model for Health.
- The preK-12 MMH curriculum addresses CASEL's Social Emotional Learning Competencies and the Health Education standards.
- Curriculum and materials are rich with opportunities to address State Standards in reading and writing.
- Research studies show students that receive the Michigan Model for Health Curriculum have stronger communication skills, better skills in managing their feelings and actions, improved attitudes about taking actions to stay safe and stronger drug and tobacco refusal skills.
- All Michigan Model assessments for grades 5-12 are now available as Google Forms. For access to these assessments, view the following link with information and complete the agreement form.
MMH Portal
- MMH continues to evolve to meet the online needs of its health education partners. The MMH portal is a one stop shop for all of our partners with a new landing page and links to the digital curriculum for current users and easy to navigate resources.
Interested in using the MMH in your classroom? Reach out to Stacey Sills to get started.
Grades Pre-K to 6 Scope & Sequence
Health and Wellness Newsletters and Resources
Michigan Child Protection Registry
Are your children safe while online? Michigan families, especially minors, are becoming inundated with advertisements from alcohol, tobacco, pornography, illegal drugs and gambling marketers through different internet and cell phone inboxes. To reduce these influences on youth, the State of Michigan offers a free program to stop adult advertisements from reaching e-mails, text messages, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. The Michigan Child Protection Registry, like the federal Do Not Call List, is a free do-not-contact service for Michigan’s families and can be located at www.ProtectMIChild.com.
Want additional resources?
- Check out Michigan Model for Health's online safety lessons (grades 2, 4, 6, and high school)
- Thorn for Parents
- Netsmartz
- Protect Young Eyes
- Common Sense Media & Common Sense Education
- Be Internet Awesome
- Suggested plugins: Bark Home or Circle
Responding to Bias Incidents in Middle and High Schools
Check out this resource from ADL called, "Responding to Bias Incidents in Middle and High Schools: Resources and Best Practices for School Administrators & Educators." This toolkit is a resource to help educators and school administrators strengthen their responses to school-based incidents of bias and bigotry. Whether it be a racist “joke,” slur, stereotype or some other manifestation of implicit or explicit bias, all school community members must be committed to addressing bias-related incidents in our schools. -ADL
SAMHSA Holiday Messaging on Suicide Prevention
This holiday season, remind those who are feeling overwhelmed by life or emotions that support is available at any time for any reason. This link provides messaging that could be shared with your families and students.
MiSHCA Partners
Michigan Standards
Health Education Mandates
MI Child and Healthy Kids
Regional School Health & Equity Consultant
Email: ssills@oaisd.org
Website: https://www.oaisd.org/programs-services/teaching--learning/instructional-services/content-resources/health-prevention/
Location: 13565 Port Sheldon Street, Holland, MI, USA