Getting real about sex ed : what today's students need / Shafia Zaloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaloom, Shafia, author.

Contributor:

Weissbourd, Rick, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction for children.

Sex instruction for teenagers.

Education, Primary.

Education, Secondary.

secondary education.

Physical Description:

ix, 294 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Getting real about sex education

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2026]

Summary:

In Getting Real About Sex Ed, Shafia Zaloom offers educators, administrators, and caregiving adults concrete language and strategies for integrating sexuality education into daily practice, beginning with students in kindergarten and carrying through to high school graduation. Zaloom advocates Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), a holistic framework for K-12 classrooms that addresses the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical aspects of sexuality. The book highlights how CSE scaffolds the sexual development of students as it gradually layers in age-appropriate information, skills, and positive values to practice and prepare for safe and fulfilling relationships, as well as how students can take responsibility for their own sexual health and well-being.

Contents:

The sexuality education our students deserve

Building the foundation : kindergarten through grade two

Playground games : grades three and four

Body changes : grades five and six

Puberty positive : grades seven and eight

Big transitions : grades nine and ten

Heading into adulthood : grades eleven and twelve

Appendix A. Taking care as an educator : what about us?

Appendix B. Courageous conversations

Appendix C. Resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798895570593

OCLC:

1531450471