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CCSD advisory committee approves multiple health curricula for teacher database, elects chair and vice chair
Summary
At its Feb. 19 orientation meeting, the Clark County School District advisory committee voted to recommend multiple Goodheart-Wilcox and Health Smart health/sexual-health resources for inclusion in the district materials database, elected Nikia Jackson Hale as chair and Dee Thomas as vice chair, and received training on parliamentary procedure and Nevada open-meeting law.
The Clark County School District Education Advisory Committee approved a slate of health and sexual-health teaching resources on Feb. 19 and elected leadership for the new term.
The committee voted by voice on several agenda items to recommend that the Board of School Trustees consider adding Goodheart‑Wilcox’s Essential Health Skills (middle- and high-school editions) and multiple Health Smart Grade‑5 teacher guides and lesson workbooks to the district’s database of approved instructional materials. Christopher Carroll, CCSD director and the committee’s liaison, said approved resources join a district database from which teachers may choose materials that meet the Nevada academic content standards.
Why it matters: approvals by the advisory committee do not by themselves place materials into classrooms. Carroll…
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