We’ve Gotta Talk About Sex!
Honest, fact-based, comprehensive, developmentally appropriate, inclusive conversation about healthy sexuality
Wendy Sellers, sexual health educator, founder of Health4Hire, Inc., and author of Puberty: the Wonder Years recently chatted with our very own Emmalinda MacLean about the challenges of teaching puberty education. We are delighted to see Emmalinda receiving the recognition she deserves for her outstanding work as an educator.
Read more here: https://pubertycurriculum.com/educator-spotlight-emmalinda-maclean/
Being a human is hard; the world is a difficult place; you cannot fix or heal everyone. Supporting children with empathy, patience, stability, predictability, and agency will give their brains the tools to start healing on their own, and so will normalizing the idea of trauma as something that happens to many people. When all of the adults who care for children recognize that intense reactions, unpredictable emotions, defensive behaviors, and shutting down are potential trauma responses, and respond accordingly, naming and normalizing the need to feel safe, children can see and empathize with it in themselves and each other.
We have been back to school and working with educators for a month now, and it’s so gratifying to serve our returning clients as well as students and staff on campuses that are brand new to us. But regardless of where our client schools are or how long we have been working with them, the biggest area of concern for staff and administrators is most often, “How do we support our LGBTQIA+ students?” A hugely important question, to be sure, when we have ample evidence that LGBTQIA+ youth are more likely to have suicidal thoughts or attempts, personal safety issues and lower academic achievement than their cisgender and heterosexual peers. We are delighted that Chris Angel Murphy (they/them) breaks it down for us.
Read MoreI’ve been joking for years that my life’s mission is to raise an army of sex educators. Well, the joke is on Texas, because last month we started the Dallas branch. I couldn’t be prouder to support a like-minded startup taking flight in another city, and I am in deep admiration of the courage of the Texan sex-educators I met there.
If you’re wondering what qualifies a person to be a comprehensive sex-educator, or how we can teach someone to do it in a weekend, think about how people become parents. There’s a lot to know and to learn, it’s the work of a lifetime to get good at, but you don’t have to be perfect or know everything to be a great parent to a child who needs you.
It’s the law. Comprehensive, fact-based and inclusive Sexual Health Education is no longer merely optional for middle and high school youth.
Let More Than Sex-Ed help you meet the new mandates.
Read More"More Than Sex-Ed. Get comprehensive & inclusive. Get your facts straight." has been accepted as an expo presentation for the 23rd Annual California Charter Schools Conference being held Monday, March 14 to Thursday, March 17, 2016 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
As California schools begin to implement the newly enacted Healthy Youth Act, AB 329, MTSE is so glad to be getting the word out. We are here to help your school comply with the most comprehensive sex-ed requirements in the nation.
MORE THAN SEX-ED is an educational outreach initiative. Our goal is to partner with groups in our community who already serve youth, in order to create and implement sexuality education programs based on guidelines set by the Sexuality Information Education Council of the United States.
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