ETR BROADENS THE APPEAL OF HEALTHSMART
HealthSmart and State-Level Standards
HealthSmart,
ETR’s comprehensive K–12 health education program,
was designed to meet the National Health Education Standards (NHES).
The NHES detail what students need to know and be able
to do in order to achieve health literacy, by setting perfor-
mance indicators around functional knowledge and skills
required for adopting and maintaining healthy behaviors.
In addition to key concepts in the various health areas,
the standards address the 7 essential health skills of ana-
lyzing influences, accessing resources, interpersonal com-
munication, decision making, goal setting, practicing
health-enhancing behaviors and advocacy.
All lessons in the
HealthSmart
curriculum are aligned
with NHES, and great emphasis is placed on students
having opportunities to become proficient in and master
the concepts and skills outlined at each grade level. We
recently analyzed the alignment of the
HealthSmart
sex-
ual health units with the National Sexuality Education
Standards, which provide guidance on the developmen-
tally- and age-appropriate core content for sexuality edu-
cation programs at various grade levels.
Now our school health editorial staff are hard at work
reviewing how
HealthSmart
aligns with individual state
standards in health education. These state-level align-
ments allow educators and administrators to assess how
the curriculum will help them meet their state standards.
Because
HealthSmart
is so closely aligned to the NHES, it
aligns very well with state standards that have their foun-
dations in the NHES, as well as any state standards that
emphasize skills development. Thus far, we’ve completed
this analysis for California, Florida, New York and Texas,
some of our primary
HealthSmart
customers. Georgia,
Oregon and North Carolina are coming soon.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HEALTHSMART
OR THE ALIGNMENTS:
John Henry Ledwith
National Sales Manager
View the current standards
alignments at the
HealthSmart website.
Click on
About HealthSmart
to see
how
HealthSmart
aligns with State
and National Standards.
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