This program is a 10-week comprehensive sexuality education class that teaches older elementary kids about a range of topics related to growing older and healthy relationships. This class is informed by the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education produced by the National Guidelines Task Force, a group of leading health, education, and sexuality professionals assembled by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). In every category of assessment, the curriculum meets or exceeds the National Standards for Sexuality Education Core Curriculum, K-12 (PDF). This class is only available for 4th and 5th graders.
Growing Up, and why Sex Education matters.
This class teaches a comprehensive approach to Relationships, Self-Esteem, Feelings and Attractions, Decisions and Actions, Puberty, Consent, Gender, Peer Pressure, and Healthy Relationships. Classes are taught to be gender-inclusive, LGBTQIA+ and trans rights positive, and values the inherent worth and dignity of every human being.
The curriculum is based off Our Whole Lives curriculum which has been used for over 20 years (1999) in the Unitarian Church and the United Church of Christ, but is a secular education. This curriculum is currently being used under another name in over 50 charter club schools in the Los Angeles area.
