Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Instructional Materials Committee (2022-2023)

On March 15, the Lakewood Board of Directors voted to accept recommendations from the Curriculum Instructional Materials Committee and Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Instructional Materials Committee to adopt HealthSmart for grades 6-12.

Staff will begin training later this month. Parents will be invited to a Zoom meeting 30 days prior to the instruction to consider if they would like to opt out their students from the CSHE lessons.

On February 28, the Curriculum Instructional Materials Committee met and considered recommended CSHE instructional materials.

The LWSD Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Instructional Materials Committee narrowed its selection of curriculum materials to three choices for each grade band based on scoring rubrics and group discussion. The committee ranked the curriculum as follows:

1. HealthSmart (6-12)
2. Flash (6-12)
3. Great Body Shop (6-8)/HealthSmart (9-12)

The CIMC agreed unanimously to move the materials to the School Board for approval consideration. A recording of the meeting is available. The passcode is 7SPm.E4U.

On March 1, the Lakewood Board of Directors received a presentation on the recommended CHSE materials, viewed community feedback and provided time for public comment. The Lakewood School Board will take action on the recommendation at the board meeting on March 15. Time for public comment will be provided.

Community Feedback: Lakewood community members may continue to preview the recommended materials and provide feedback electronically though March 9, 2023 at noon. The materials and feedback form can be accessed on our website. All feedback received will be provided to the School Board prior to the March 15, 2023 Board meeting. A time for public comment will also be available during the March 15 Board meeting. 

The CSHE Instructional Material Committee had its third 6-12 CSHE curriculum adoption recommendation meeting on January 11, 2023, as directed by the board charge with amended instructions. Please see the meeting notes in the Meeting Notes (Amended Charge) section below.

The CSHE Instructional Material Committee had its second 6-12 CSHE curriculum adoption recommendation meeting on December 19, 2022, as directed by the board charge with amended instructions. Please see the meeting notes and related document in the Meeting Notes (Amended Charge) section below.

The CSHE Instructional Material Committee had its first 6-12 CSHE curriculum adoption recommendation meeting on November 29, 2022, as directed by the board charge with amended instructions. Please see the meeting notes in the Meeting Notes (Amended Charge) section below.

During its regular business meeting on November 2, the Lakewood Board of Directors approved amended instructions to the Comprehensive Sexual Health Education adoption committee to make a new proposal of three curricula, ranked ordered, for adoption. You may review the amended instructions with new parameters on our website. Following approval of the amended instructions, the motion to approve the Get Real curriculum for grades 6-12 was withdrawn. Get Real is no longer under consideration by the board.

The board will not be considering or voting on any materials until the adoption committee has acted consistent with new instructions. Learn about previous Board actions.

The board has appreciated the community’s input and is re-evaluating the adoption process in light of the varied interests in our community. During the October 18 study session, the board reviewed the adoption committee’s charge and discussed new instructions to the CSHE adoption committee that are intended to allow for consideration of new materials that are responsive to community interests.

New instructions to the adoption committee will be presented to and considered by the board at its regular business meeting on November 2. New instructions, if approved by the board, would direct the adoption committee to reopen the adoption of materials for grades 6-12 under new parameters. The board will not be considering or voting on any materials until the adoption committee has acted consistent with new instructions.

Any board action concerning CSHE curriculum adoption will be publicly announced well in advance of the date materials will be considered. Learn more about previous Board actions.

Present: Peter, Eyden, Heidi, Michael, Maggie, Paula, Amanda, Joey, Ethan, Crystal, Bill, Bryan Toutant

Agenda/Notes:

Please form in same groups as last time.

Small Group Activity/Discussion

• Review and/or complete Scoring Guide Rubric for each remaining curriculum
  • Comprehensive Heath Skills-6-8, 9-12
  • Flash-6-8, 9-12
  • Great Body Shop-6-8
  • HealthSmart-6-8, 9-12
  • Teen Talk-6-8, 9-12

Whole Group Discussion

• Record scoring from small groups.
  • Groups reported scores from individual “Scoring Guide Rubric.”
• Are there other comments, thoughts, concerns, etc. we should discuss as a whole group before ranking top three in small groups?
  • Comprehensive Skills-Concern about supplementing as the curriculum is primarily geared to California state standards, few student activities, significant amount of student reading which could be a barrier to all students accessing the content
  • Great Body Shop-assessments and essential learning materials were relatively weak, safe choice in terms of easy transition from elementary, concerns about the way gender is addressed
  • HealthSmart- lots of teacher materials, team recommends that the implementing teachers discuss which activities are most suitable by grade level  
  • Teen Talk- Concern about supplementing as the curriculum is primarily geared to California state standards, concerns about some of the information in student materials, ex. direct links to abortion centers, decolonization,” birth control stations,” “identity iceberg”…
    • Team unanimously agreed to not continue reviewing Teen Talk as a possible Lakewood CSHE curricular material

Small Group Discussion

• Please rank top three curricula by grade band
  • Each group ranked their top three curriculum choices based on scoring rubrics and shared information.

Whole Group Discussion

• Review rankings from small groups
  • Each team shared their top three curriculum materials choices.
• Attain consensus for top three curricula by grade band
  • The team agreed to the following choices and ranking to recommend to CIMC.

1. HealthSmart (6-12), 2. Flash (6-12) 3. Great Body Shop (6-8)/HealthSmart (9-12)

Small Group Activity

• Complete Screening Tool for Biased Content (OSPI) for top three in each grade band
  • The top three ranked choices were screened by committee members using the “Screening Tool for Biased Content” published by OSPI: https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/equity/pubdocs/WA-ScreeningForBiasedContent-Form.pdf. 

Whole Group Discussion

• Discuss any impacts of the Screening Tool for Biased Content (OSPI) for top three in each grade band
  • None
  • HealthSmart, Flash and Great Body Shop each earned a Final Recommendation of “Yes” as scored by committee members using the “Screening Tool for Biased Content.”

Next Meeting: 

• None. This phase of CSHE curriculum selection has been completed. Next steps in the adoption process will be posted to the districted website soon. 
• Thank you to all the members of our team that have participated in this process.

December 19, 2022: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Present: Maggie, Ethan, Heidi, Bill, Crystal, Joey, Amanda, Paula, Dana, Eyden, Peter, Bryan Toutant

Agenda/Notes:

Please form mixed groups for today’s work

Small Group Discussion

• Collaboratively review and confirm completed standards explorations for each curriculum by grade band.

Whole Group Discussion

• Discuss results from small groups.
• Do any curricula have standards deficiencies?
  • The Great Body Shop – only has one lesson collection for 6^th grade for comprehensive sexual health standards instead of two grade bands

Small Group Discussion

• Discuss noticing and wonderings notes for each curriculum by grade band.

Whole Group Discussion

• Discuss noticing and wonderings notes for each curriculum by grade band.
• Do any curricula need to be discussed for age-appropriate instruction as informed by community input or for any other reason?
  • Unhushed
    • Facilitator guide and teacher guide may not meet age-appropriate instruction as informed by community input
    • Team agreed to remove Unhushed from consideration
  • 3Rs
    • Concerns about balance of perspectives and resources provided that may not meet age-appropriate instruction as informed by community input
    • Team agreed to remove 3Rs from consideration
  • Native It’s Your Game
    • Geared exclusively to Native American students which does not reflect the whole of our community demographic
    • Team agreed to remove Native It’s Your Game from consideration
  • Teen Talk
    • Very specific to meeting California’s standards which are more expansive than Washington’s standards
    • Team will continue to examine Teen Talk Scoring Guide Activity in small groups
  • Comprehensive Health Skills
    • Concern about balance of perspectives may not meet age-appropriate instruction as informed by community input
    • Team will continue to examine Comprehensive Health Skills in Scoring Guide Activity in small groups
  • Great Body Shop
    • Concerns about age-appropriate materials for middle school students
    • Team will continue to examine Great Body Shop in Scoring Guide Activity in small groups

Scoring Guide Activity-Small Groups

• Score all remaining curriculum with Scoring Guide rubric, each curriculum at each grade band
• Using the rubric and the notice and wonderings, agree on top 3-5 for each grade band.
  • This activity was not completed fully and will be the basis of the next meeting

Next Meeting: January 11

CHSE Meeting #1 (amended charge) Agenda and Notes

November 29, 2022-9:45 AM -12 PM

Present: Peter, Edyen, Crystal, Paula, Dana, Heidi, Maggie, Bill, Amanda, Kayla, Ethan, Joey, Bryan Toutant

Agenda:

• Review Amended Board Charge from 11/2/22
• Review CHSE Forum Feedback from 9/14/22
• Review CSHE letters from the community presented to the board on 10/6/22
• Process reviewed information in small groups/whole group:
  • What do you hear in the reviewed documents?

We hear that people were concerned about specific content issues and age appropriateness of the materials. CSHE is an important topic for those that attended the forum or sent email.  There were questions about the Get Real curriculum going beyond the required standard.  Several comments about gender identity were noted.  There was also concern about Planned Parenthood being the author of Get Real.  Parents want to understand the opt-out procedure.

• • Are there voices that are missing? If so, who?

There were a few people at the community forum who appreciated the curriculum. The team reiterated its desire is to support with our community and choose the best curriculum for students.  We look forward to finding a curriculum that builds bridges rather than breaks them.  The voice that seems absent from the community conversation is the student’s voice.

• • How does this inform your thinking about the board charge? “Instructional materials should clearly align with state standards and age-appropriate instruction as informed by community input.”

When looking at the curriculums we will need be clear to the community which lessons will be explicitly taught and which do not align with the standards and therefore will not be used in the classroom. Parents see the curriculum as the entirety of the learning.  It is important to recognize this as we move forward.

• Each member will explore OSPI provided CSHE Instructional Materials Reviews for all curricula that is has previously been reviewed by OSPI, is a full curriculum, and may or may not require modification to meet state law.
  • Collected information will be recorded in the standards correlation document and notes document.
    Explained the documents in the folder.  Will send the documents with the links to the curriculums.  Please review curriculums for how they meet the CSHE standards and use the other page to document any notes or wonderings.

Next Meeting:
Next meeting December 19^th 9 AM-12 PM

In person meeting at Lakewood High School:

• (Continued): The team broke into three groups based on grade band interest: 4-5, 6-8, 9-12 (No sexuality content or curriculum is required for K-3 students).
  • Used OSPI provided Sexual Health Education Curriculum Review documents to provide initial screening: https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area/sexual-health-education/instructional-materials-review-reports-and-tools
  • Which of the proposed curriculum materials meet the newly required standards? Are there areas that are not addressed?
  • Which of the proposed curriculum materials are aligned to Lakewood community values?
• Each grade band recommended curricular materials to examine further based on above criteria.
• Team agreed to select three curricular materials to advance:
  • FLASH (grades 4-12) https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/locations/family-planning/education/FLASH.aspx
  • Great Body Shop (grades 4-5)/Get Real (grades 6-12) https://www.thegreatbodyshop.net/curriculum/k-six https://www.getrealeducation.org/
  • Rights, Respect, Responsibility (grades 4-12) https://www.3rs.org/
• The team broke into three randomly assigned groups, each assigned one of the above curricular materials.
  • Each team used a rubric to identify the viability of the curricular materials meeting the needs of the required standards and legislative requirements, ensure bias-free materials, instructional design considerations, learning objectives, teacher guidance and preparation, instructional strategies, and assessment plans.
• Next meeting is June 10.

• Team selected Great Body Shop (grades 4-5)/Get Real (grades 6-12) unanimously.

In person meeting at Lakewood High School:

• Reviewed new or enhanced required standards as defined by RCW 28A.300.475
• The team broke into three groups based on grade band interest: 4-5, 6-8, 9-12 (No sexuality content or curriculum is required for K-3 students).
  • Used OSPI provided Sexual Health Education Curriculum Review documents to provide initial screening: https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area/sexual-health-education/instructional-materials-review-reports-and-tools
  • Which of the proposed curriculum materials meet the newly required standards? Are there areas that are not addressed?
  • Which of the proposed curriculum materials are aligned to Lakewood community values?
  • We did not finish this activity during this meeting
• Next meeting is June 2

Revised October 20, 2022

In person meeting at Lakewood High School:

• Reviewed new or enhanced required standards as defined by RCW 28A.300.475
• Reviewed additional health and social emotional learning standards and current adopted curriculums (Second Step and Character Strong).
• Decided as a team to focus on only the new or enhanced required standards for submission to Curriculum Instructional Materials Committee and then the Lakewood School Board.
• Briefly overviewed the materials approved* by OSPI
  • FLASH
  • Get Real
  • Great Body Shop
  • Health Smart
  • Positive Prevention Plus
  • Rights, Respect, Responsibility
• Unanimously agreed to focus on selecting one of the six approved* by OSPI vs. locally developing entirely new curriculum (allowed by law)
• Next meeting is May 19

*OSPI does not "approve" or recommend curricula or other instructional materials. Districts are encouraged to review all instructional materials before adoption/use to ensure their suitability for use in the district. https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area/sexual-health-education/instructional-materials-review-reports-and-tools

Zoom meeting:

• Team introductions (four parents, three students, six staff)
• Reviewed applicable law RCW 28A.300.475
• Reviewed grade level requirements https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area/sexual-health-education/comprehensive-sexual-health-education-implementation,
• Reviewed CSHE Frequently Asked Questions https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/hivsexualhealth/pubdocs/CSHE%20Requirements%20FAQs_6.30.21.pdf
• Reviewed proposed selection process.
• Identified meeting schedule and dates.
• Next meeting is April 28.

• CSHE Presentation
• CSHE Community Forum Written Feedback 

• Zoom Recording (Passcode: YViy*r1Y)