Brave New World: The Perks of Virtual Sex Ed

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Brave New World: The Perks of Virtual Sex Ed

I trust that by now we’re all pretty familiar with the frustrations and drawbacks of online education, and we join with parents and students in hoping to be back in classrooms in person as soon as it’s safe to do so. But the more virtual sex-ed classes we present, the more we’ve noticed certain unmistakable advantages to the remote model too—and we hope to be able to re-create some of these benefits in a post-pandemic future.

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Spotlight on Our Shift to Online Learning

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Spotlight on Our Shift to Online Learning

When our school clients switched to remote-learning in the spring, we, like so many other educators, figured out a brand new way to teach.

We’ve learned about so many online tools for teaching, but thankfully lots of the familiar elements of our workshops are part of our e-learning program, and a lot of the questions from kids are reassuringly the same. Teens are wondering about body parts and media messages and masturbation and just what exactly causes a pregnancy, or wondering if they can make their sex-ed teacher laugh. (They often can. One of the perks of the job). But some questions we’ve never had to answer before: one young person asked “will I ever have a first kiss because of covid?”

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