This is a list of topics that can be delivered virtually, to groups or individuals. Each of these can be a single class or a series. Or multiple topics can be combined to create a custom series.
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CROSS DIVISIONAL TOPICS (PreK-12)
- How to Grow a Developmentally Based Sexuality Education Program at Your School
- Principles and Practices for Truly Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education
- Roles for Administrators in Growing and Supporting Comprehensive Sexuality Education
- The Art of Gentle Shaming: How to Get Your School On Board with Sexuality Education for the 21st Century
- The 5:5 Paradigm: How to Intentionally “Nurture”– Not Simply “Teach”–Your Students Every Single Day
- Families and Schools as Authentic Partners in Raising Sexually Healthy Children and Adolescents
- The “Sexual and Gender Profile” Concept, and How It Applies to You and Your Students
- Values? What Values? Whose Values?: Differentiating Five Different Kinds of Values that Interface with School Life
- “Tweens”: The Most Successful Stealth Marketing Tool EVER, and How it Affects Both Adults and Kids
- Why So Many Parents Aren’t Getting the Importance of Monitoring and Limit Setting, and How Schools Can Help
- The Administrative Support You Should Insist on as a Sexuality Teacher
- What’s the Difference Between “Science Education,” “Sexual Health Education,” and Human Sexuality Education?
- “Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education”?
- Sexual Language(s) in the Classroom: What’s OK and Not?
- How to Infuse Your Sexuality Curriculum with Universal Values
- Gay and Transgender Inclusive Teaching
- Assessing Your School’s Progress in Embracing Gay and Transgender Inclusiiviity
- “Cognitive Reframing”: What It Is It and What It Has to Do with Sexuality Education
- Teaching the “Hard” Topics, and What Makes Them Hard
- How to Talk Comfortably About Sexual Pleasure with Anybody
- How Would You Bring Up That Subject? Context is Everything!
- Guaranteed!: How to Comfortably Respond to Any and All Questions Your Sex Ed Students Might Ask
- Anticipating and Heading Off “Controversy” Around Your Sexuality Education Program
- Religion and Human Sexuality Education: How to Create a Big Tent
- Sexuality Education in a Diverse School Environment
- The Internet as Primary Sex Educator? How to Put Teachers and Parents in Front of the Class
- Talking about Pornography with Lower, Middle, and/or Upper School Students
Best Practices: PreK/LS
- “Where Did I Come From?” and Other Wildly Misunderstood Questions that Young Chidren Ask
- The World Has Radically Changed, So Why Does Lower School Sexuality Education Stay Pretty Much the Same?
- 20 Things To Do Before Implementing PreK-5 Sexuality Education
- Truly Age Appropriate Learning Benchmarks in PreK-5
- Developing a Holistic, Integrated Approach to Sexuality Education in Your Lower School: What Would That Look Like?
- The 10 Most Important Things For Young Children to Know about Sexuality by the Time They Are 9
- Scope and Sequencing for PreK/LS Sexuality Education
- Teaching PreK-5 “Consent Education”
- Sexuality Education as a Remedial Discipline: How to Help Kids Unlearn Stuff They Think is True and Isn’t
- No, They’re Not Too Young: How to Teach Six-Year-Olds about Puberty and Other So Called “Grown Up” Topics
- Six Different Kinds of Sexual Language Children Are Left to Decipher on Their Own
Best Practices: Middle and Upper Schools
- Holistic, Developmentally Based Sexuality Education in Middle School
- Harnessing Design Thinking to Create Sexuality Education Scope and Sequence
- What is “Sex-Positive” Sexuality Education?
- Functional Science Benchmarks in Sexual Health Education
- Attitudes, Feelings, Beliefs, and Values: Strategic Teaching and Learning in the Affective Domain
- What Does Sexuality Have to Do with Morality?
- What is “Ethical Sex”?
- How Current Approaches to “Sex Education” May Encourage Students to Settle for Less Than They Really Want
- How to Teach about the Menstrual Cycle and Hormones Without Putting Your Students to Sleep
- Unpacking Rape Culture for Middle and High School Students
- Sexual Harassment/Sexual Assault Prevention
- Risk/Protective Factors and the Concept of “Relative Risk”: How to Use The “A-Z” Method of STI/HIV Prevention
- What is a Sexually Healthy Young Adult, and How Do We Help Nurture One?
- Teaching about “Consent”? Teach about Intimacy First
- Less is More: How to Teach Students as Little as Possible about HIV/STI
- Teaching Students How to Think Systematically About Birth Control, and Why They So Often Don’t
- Human Sexuality in the News, and How to Use it to Support Critical Thinking Skills
- Teaching Students Essential Communication and Decision-Making Skills
- Gender Roles: The Missing Discourse in Conversations about Sex and Gender
- How Agriculture Created Patriarchy and Today’s “Opposite and Unequal” Gender Roles
- How “Traditional” Gender Role Expectations Negatively Impact Sexual Decisions and Experiences
- Effectively Eliciting and Answering Anonymous Questions
- Essential Ground Rules in a Sexuality Education Classroom
- Values Education in Human Sexuality Classes
- Intersectionality and Social Justice in the Sexuality Education Curriculum
- All Teachers Are English and Sexuality Educators: Discuss
- How to Provoke Constructive “Values Conflicts” in Your Classroom
- Teaching High School Kids How to Be Effective “Sexual Citizens”
- How “Hooking Up” and Other Forms of Sexual Shorthand Sabotage the Concept of Intimacy
- Using Scenarios and Role Plays in Sexuality Classrooms
- What is Sexual “Protection” Beyond Condoms, Consent, and Birth Control?