CLF & CDE Resources for Educators and School Leaders
Here are resources to help design curriculum aligned to the new comprehensive health and physical education standards as well as teach:
Designing Curriculum
Comprehensive health and physical education standards
View the standards by content area and grade level, including evidence outcomes to determine whether students from preschool through high school have mastered each standard.
- Comprehensive Health Sample Curriculum
View Comprehensive Health curriculum samples by grade level Kindergarten through High School. As resources for districts’ voluntary-use, these curriculum samples translate health standards of the Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) into curriculum and offer possible options for sequencing the concepts, skills, and content of the CAS across a course or year.
- Overview of Curriculum Graphic Organizers
These interactive curriculum graphic organizers were developed to provide a graphical overview of the health education standards and identify the key health concepts and skills by grade level.
Colorado Academic Standards
The Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) emphasize what students need to be postsecondary and workforce ready.
“Did you know” Data Specific to Comprehensive Sex Education
Access health and wellness data about the sexual health of Colorado’s youth. For example, did you know that a baby is born to a Colorado teen every 84 minutes?
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum
See the 14 essential characteristics of today’s effective, state-of-the-art health education curricula, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)
The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) can help school districts, schools, and others conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC’s Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum.
HECAT results can help schools select or develop appropriate and effective health education curricula and improve the delivery of health education. The HECAT can be customized to meet local community needs and conform to the curriculum requirements of the state or school district.
By using the HECAT chapters 1-6 in combination with the specific content modules and the cross-walk tool for the Colorado Comprehensive Health Education Standards the HECAT can be used to not only analyze curriculum for CDC’s Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum but also align the curriculum with the Colorado Standards. For more information on the HECAT contact Jamie Hurley at RMC Health jamesh@rmc.org.
Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (PECAT)
Use these tools from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to analyze your health and physical education curricula. Results can help districts and schools select or develop effective health and physical education curricula, and improve teaching strategies.
- Critical Consumer Tool
The Critical Consumer Tool is designed to support informed decisions about the degree to which existing and potential instructional resources facilitate implementation of the Colorado Academic Standards within a 21st Century, standards-based, high impact, teaching and learning system. The Instructional Resources Users Guide provides guidance for the evaluation of instructional resources by framing educational theory, research and best practices within a Colorado context.
Key strategies for improving the quality of physical education
Read this short brief about two key strategies to increase students’ time in moderate to vigorous physical activity during physical education classes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Teaching Comprehensive Health
Comprehensive Health and PE “Experts in the School Building” Tool
Tap into the expertise and health education already being delivered within your school and cultivate a standards-based comprehensive health education curriculum. This graphic offers concrete ideas on how to partner with specialists to build a sequential, skill-building CH PE curriculum. It also includes interactive links to coordination and planning resources to increase the impact of what you are already doing.
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards – Whole Child Approach
This presentation addresses the connections between health and PE skills to 21st Century skills. Teach and practice 21st Century skills for the Whole Child.
The Great Body Shop Curriculum Crosswalk Summary
For a detailed crosswalk on the alignment of The Great Body Shop curriculum with the Colorado Comprehensive Health Academic Content Standards, please click here.
Health Promotion Wave Curriculum Crosswalk Summary
For a detailed crosswalk on the alignment of the Health Promotion Wave curriculum with the Colorado Comprehensive Health Academic Content Standards, please click here.
LifeSkills Training Curriculum Crosswalk Summary
For a detailed crosswalk on the alignment of the LifeSkills Training curriculum with the Colorado Comprehensive Health Academic Content Standards, please click here.
Teaching Physical Education
Colorado Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (COAHPERD)
Find curriculum and supplements such as Fitnessgram physical fitness tests that assess aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility.
Colorado Health Foundation’s Overview of Evidence-Based PE Curricula
Use this quick summary of five evidence-based PE programs to learn more about which might be useful and feasible to your district.
Teaching Emotional and Social Wellness
Emotional Social Wellness Standard Presentation
View an online presentation on emotional and social wellness with strategies and resources for standard implementation. This presentation includes skill building for safe, inclusive, and respectful learning environments.
Emotional and Social Wellness Leads to Effective Learning Environments
This fact sheet provides an overview of Colorado’s Emotional and Social Wellness (ESW) Standard and the research behind social and emotional learning for healthy development and academic achievement. Steps for designing explicit ESW instruction as well as school-wide ESW practices for effective learning environments across the school building are included.
Building Bridges for Children’s Mental Health in Colorado
Get tools for families and schools such as tip sheets and presentations to support behavioral health education in public schools.
Random Acts of Kindness
Access free lessons and activities that develop students’ skills for positive behavior and a climate of kindness.
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