HEALTH EDUCATION District Policy The District will implement a comprehensive, sequential, K-12 health education curriculum that addresses the nutritional, physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health, aligned with health education content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set by the New Mexico Public Education Department. It is the goal of the Board that students gain the essential knowledge and skills they need to become literate” is to make health “health –that enhancing choices and avoid behaviors that can damage their health and well-being. The District will provide comprehensive sexual education at the middle and high school levels. The district shall also provides HIV and related issues in the curriculum of the required health education content area to all students in the elementary grades, in the middle/junior high school grades, and in the senior high grades as set forth in 6.12.1.10 NMAC. Definitions Health Education means the instructional program that provides the opportunity to motivate and assist all students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. It means the content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC. Requirement The healthy school environment policy shall include a planned, sequential, k-12 health education curriculum that address the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health and is aligned to the health education content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC. Note: Districts should align health education curriculum to the health education content standards with benchmarks and performance standards for implementation in the 2006-07 school year. Goal: The goal of a comprehensive health education curriculum within a coordinated school health approach is to acquire life skills in order to attain personal, family, community, consumer and environmental health. Activities: Schools will provide a planned, sequential, k-12 health education curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. Schools Health Education curriculum will be aligned to NM Health Education content standards and benchmarks and performance standards.
HEALTH EDUCATION District Policy The District will implement a comprehensive, sequential, K-12 health education curriculum that addresses the nutritional, physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health, aligned with health education content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set by the New Mexico Public Education Department. It is the goal of the Board that students gain the essential knowledge and skills they need to become “health literate” –that is to make health enhancing choices and avoid behaviors that can damage their health and well-being. The District will provide comprehensive sexual education at the middle and high school levels. The district shall also provides HIV and related issues in the curriculum of the required health education content area to all students in the elementary grades, in the middle/junior high school grades, and in the senior high grades as set forth in 6.12.1.10 NMAC. Definitions Health Education means the instructional program that provides the opportunity to motivate and assist all students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. It means the content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC. Requirement The healthy school environment policy shall include a planned, sequential, k-12 health education curriculum that address the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health and is aligned to the health education content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC. Note: Districts should align health education curriculum to the health education content standards with benchmarks and performance standards for implementation in the 2006-07 school year. Goal: The goal of a comprehensive health education curriculum within a coordinated school health approach is to acquire life skills in order to attain personal, family, community, consumer and environmental health. Activities: Schools will provide a planned, sequential, k-12 health education curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. Schools Health Education curriculum will be aligned to NM Health Education content standards and benchmarks and performance standards.
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