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SFUSD requires that all High School students receive a minimum of one semester of health education. A 78-lesson breakdown follows:

21 lessons on growth/development from Be Real. Be Ready. comprehensive sexuality curriculum

15 lessons on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, including all 12 lessons from Towards No Drug Abuse

15 lessons on nutrition and physical activity

10 lessons on mental, emotional, and social health

7 lessons on safety and injury and violence prevention

10 lessons on other health content areas and relevant health issues

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10 lessons on mental, emotional, and social health

21 lessons on growth and development from the Be Real. Be Ready. comprehensive sexuality curriculum

decision making, communication in dating relationships, relationship violence

reproductive anatomy and physiology, pregnancy, childbirth, parenting

contraception, infections

sexual healthcare rights and resources

gender, sexuality, family diversity, LGBTQ awareness

15 lessons on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, including all 12 lessons from Towards No Drug Abuse

15 lessons on nutrition and physical activity

7 lessons on safety and injury and violence prevention

10 lessons on other health content areas and relevant health issues based on students' needs and concerns

introduction to health education and types of health (beginning of course) and review day (end of course)

consumer health, accessing and applying for affordable health care

environmental health

community health, communicable and lifestyle diseases

To be supplemented with projects, guest speakers, field trips, and exams to complete the 90-day semester.
- From SFUSD Board of Education Code #51931-51939

Below is a list of the lessons SFUSD recommends teachers use in each subject area. REQUEST RESOURCES

Recommended Lessons

Health Smart High School: Emotional & Mental Health

This 283-page book includes sixteen lessons on mental and emotional health, as well as assessments, handouts, a glossary, and a DVD of digital resources. ETR's Health Smart program gives youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long healthy behaviors.

Lesson 1: Dimensions of Health

Lesson 2: Exploring Emotional Health

Lesson 5: Understanding Stress

Lesson 6: Ways to Manage Stress

Lesson 7: Responding to Emotions in Healthy Ways

Lesson 8: Skills for Effective Communication

Lesson 11: Coping with Loss and Grief

Lesson 12: Managing Anger

Lesson 15: Understanding Mental Health Disorders

Lesson 16: Getting Help for Mental Health Issues

Additional Resources

The Mask You Live In

In this 1 hour and 37 min. DVD, The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity. The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.

View a trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc45-ptHMxo

Miss Representation

In this 1 hour 29 min. DVD, Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media and culture contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. This film explores stories from teenage girls and interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists, and academics.

View a trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UZZV3xU6Q

Being Mortal

In this 54 min. DVD, "Being Mortal," FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors - himself included - are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.

View a trailer here: http://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-being-mortal-trailer/

Kaiser Permanente Resilience Squad

Resilience Squad is available to schools and communities free of charge and offers tools for students to build healthy relationships, manage high levels of stress and trauma, and increase their ability to communicate effectively. The Resilience Squad series of 4 workshops can help high school students better cope with stress and adversity. For more information: https://etnortherncalifornia.kaiserpermanente.org/resilience-squad/, 1-877-353-2223

American Society of Suicide Prevention's More Than Sad: Teen Depression

This 25 min. film vividly reveals the realities of teen depression.
https://vimeo.com/113932733

Safe Dates: An Adolescent Dating Abuse Prevention Curriculum, 2nd Edition

Highly engaging and interactive, Safe Dates helps teens recognize the difference between caring, supportive relationships and controlling, manipulative, or abusive dating relationships. From Hazelden publishing, this 149 page book includes ten lessons and a DVD of digital resources.

Groudspark's Let's Get Real

Let's Get Real is a 35 min. documentary DVD that examines a variety of issues that lead to taunting and bullying, including racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and others. The film not only gives a voice to targeted kids, but also to kids who do the bullying to find out why they lash out at their peers and how it makes them feel. The most heartening part of Let's Get Real includes stories of kids who have mustered the courage to stand up for themselves or a classmate. Spanish subtitles available.

The accompanying 130 page curriculum guide features valuable lesson plans, discussion starters, classroom activities and handouts for teachers to use in conjunction with the film.

Human Relations Media: The Ten Signs of Relationship Abuse

The Ten Signs of Relationship Abuse from Human Relations Media is a 28 min. DVD that combines powerful interviews of battered and verbally abused teens with expert commentary. It delivers key facts about dating abuse. Teen speakers and dating abuse experts offer helpful advice on how teens can get away from potentially unhealthy, dangerous relationships involving verbal, emotional, and physical abuse. Includes a curriculum binder and digital versions of activities, handouts, and assessments.

Bullied: A Teaching Tolerance Documentary

Bullied is a 40 min. documentary DVD that chronicles one student's ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today.

Bully Dance by Janet Perlman

Bully Dance is a 10 min. zero dialogue DVD with a strong message about bullies. In the film, a community is disrupted when a bully victimizes a smaller member of the group. Eventually, the whole community becomes involved in dealing with the bully, who is himself, a victim in his own house. Issues of peer pressure, accountability, and imbalance of power are explored in a story that deals with a sensitive and pervasive problem. It has special resonance for schools in the US today.

Sexual Harassment/Violence Lessons

Recommended Lessons

San Francisco Unified School District's Be Real. Be Ready.

Be Real. Be Ready. is SFUSD's comprehensive relationship and sexuality curriculum for high school students. It is:

The curriculum was created by SFUSD teachers in collaboration with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the Adolescent Health Working Group. In addition to increasing students' knowledge and skills, the curriculum connects students to health services in their community. The lessons in Be Real. Be Ready. have been reviewed and approved by SFUSD's Curriculum and Materials Review Task Force. If you have questions or feedback about the curriculum, please contact us.

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Additional Resources

Love is Not an Angry Thing

In this 45 min. DVD, viewers are introduced to a relationship that at first seems like love, that also exhibits warning signs of abuse. This film includes interview segments with domestic violence counselors who make connections regarding patterns of abuse in the story and in real-life situations.

BBC Earth's 9 Months That Made You: The Lasting Effects of Our Time in the Womb

This 3 hr. DVD from 2015 follows the gestation process from conception to birth. Using state-of-the-art CGI and revealing the latest scientific research and advances in medicine, the process is now shown in forensic detail.

The DVD contains English subtitles. View a trailer at PBS.org

Nova's Life's Greatest Miracle

This 60 min. DVD from 2001 is a remake of Lennart Nilsson's world famous film "Miracle of Life". This completely updated edition tells the inside-the-womb story of human life from conception to birth using the latest technological advances in microscopy and medical imaging.

Put This on the {Map}

In this 32 min. DVD, Put This On The Map follows queer youth in the suburbs of Seattle as they give you a glimpse into their lives of struggle, fear, isolation, violence, and resiliency. View trailer

Human Relations Media's Coming Out: What Every Teen (Gay or Straight) Needs to Know

This 23 min. DVD from 2011 offers portraits of real LGBT kids who have come out in schools across the country, as well as their straight allies and their teachers who have dealt with this issue. The program focuses on the psychological and legal issues of bullying and sexual harassment and stresses the importance of creating a safe, tolerant environment for all students, regardless of one's own personal beliefs or feelings.

This resource includes a digital versions of activities, handouts, and assessments. The DVD contains Spanish subtitles. View a trailer at HRMvideo.com.

Frontline's Growing Up Trans

This 90 min. DVD is told from the perspective of parents, doctors, and, most revealing of all, eight transgender kids themselves, ranging in ages from 9 to 19. FRONTLINE takes a powerful look at this new generation, exploring the medical possibilities, struggles, and choices transgender kids and their families face today.
View a trailer at YouTube

Groudspark's Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
This film is a crucial piece needed to teach our Be Real. Be Ready. curriculum.
This 67 min. DVD is a documentary that includes the perspectives of teens who self-identify as straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning, and represent all points of the gender spectrum.

With courage and unexpected humor, the teens open up their lives to the camera: choosing between "male" and "female" deodorant; deciding whether to go along with anti-gay taunts in the locker room; having the courage to take ballet; avoiding the restroom so they won't get beaten up; or mourning the suicide of a classmate. It quickly becomes clear that just about everything teens do requires thinking about gender and sexuality. Straightlaced offers both teens and adults a way out of anxiety, fear, and violence, and points the way toward a more inclusive, empowering culture.

Scenarios USA's The Shortest of the Shorts

This 22 min. DVD contains four very short films , dealing with topics from condom use, STI testing, and pregnancy.

All Scenarios USA sex education films were written by teens for teens, then were professionally produced and edited in 2008. They've won several awards and critical accolades, and many contain appearances by famous actors. Characters are diverse in ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Scenarios USA's Just Like You Imagined?

Just Like You Imagined? is a 16 min. DVD about six teens who hope to avoid heartbreak, HIV, and hard truths about their relationships, while remaining true to who they are.

All Scenarios USA sex education films were written by teens for teens, then were professionally produced and edited in 2008. They've won several awards and critical accolades, and many contain appearances by famous actors. Characters are diverse in ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Scenarios USA's Reflections

In this 22 min. DVD, three high school best girlfriends have seen each other through everything - school, romance, family, and a baby. When they make a pact to take an HIV test together, they each face a fear about their own sexual behavior. The results are surprising and change their relationship forever.

All Scenarios USA sex education films were written by teens for teens, then were professionally produced and edited in 2008. They've won several awards and critical accolades, and many contain appearances by famous actors. Characters are diverse in ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Scenarios USA's Monster

In this 11 min. DVD, three young men chat up the new girl on the block, and only one gets lucky. But he, however, is forced to deal with his HIV status.

All Scenarios USA sex education films were written by teens for teens, then were professionally produced and edited in 2008. They've won several awards and critical accolades, and many contain appearances by famous actors. Characters are diverse in ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Human Relations Media: Understanding HIV and AID S

This 20 min. DVD from 2005 presents an age-appropriate review of the basic terms, definitions and biology of the HIV virus plus means of infection, treatment, and protection. The program also sends a clear message that abstinence is the only 100% effective option for avoiding sexual transmission of the HIV virus. It includes a dialogue with middle school students and two HIV positive young people on issues that impact their lives. It includes a curriculum binder and digital versions of activities, handouts, and assessments. Spanish version also available.

3 girls i know... intimate stories about young women, teen sexuality, pregnancy and HIV/AIDS

This 54 min DVD made in 2004 is a documentary by Paula Mozen. In it, Maggie, Ari, and Tishaun, three teenagers from Montana, San Francisco, and Baltimore, find their lives abruptly altered by the impact of sexual decisions. This contemporary documentary follows these young women from varied ethnic backgrounds as they explore issues of sexuality and relationships. By frankly discussing their fears, sexual identities, and the consequences of their choices - among them pregnancy and testing HIV-positive - the girls promote personal responsibility and the need for greater sex education and AIDS awareness.

The T Word

Actress and trans advocate Laverne Cox presents an eye-opening documentary about seven brave transgender youth who are showing the world what it means to defy expectations and live their lives - and truth - as authentically as possible.
Recommended Lessons Streaming Online

View list of Sexuality Materials Reviewed up to 2015 (pdf) Contact us to submit a new material.

Substance Use Lessons

Recommended Lessons

Project Towards No Drug (TND) Abuse

This 299-page teacher's manual comes along with a class set of student workbooks. Project TND focuses on three factors that predict tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, violence-related behaviors, and other problem behaviors among youth, including: Motivation factors (i.e., students' attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and desires regarding drug use); Skills (effective communication, social self-control, and coping skills); and Decision-making (i.e., how to make decisions that lead to health-promoting behaviors).

Lesson 1: Active Listening

Lesson 2: Stereotyping

Lesson 3: Myths and Denials

Lesson 4: Chemical Dependency

Lesson 5: Talk Show

Lesson 6: Stress, Health, & Goals

Lesson 7: Tobacco Basketball and Use Cessation

Lesson 8: Self Control

Lesson 9: Marijuana Panel

Lesson 10: Positive & Negative Thought & Behavior Loops

Lesson 11: Perspectives

Lesson 12: Decision-making and Commitment

Also, new information on E-Cigarettes and related products

Health Smart High School: Tobacco, Alcohol, & other Drug Prevention

This 243-page book includes sixteen lessons on tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, as well as assessments, handouts, a glossary, and a DVD of digital resources. ETR's Health Smart program gives youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long healthy behaviors.

Lesson 1: Teens & Drug Use

Lesson 3: Prescription & Over-the-Counter Drugs: Get the Facts

Lesson 6: Alcohol: Get the Facts

Additional Resources

Addiction (HBO Series)

This 90 min documentary DVD addresses different aspects of the disease of addiction. This film highlights personal accounts from addicts, their loved ones, and the nation's leading drug and alcohol experts.
View trailer

Edible Marijuana: Is it safe?

In this 18 min. DVD, viewers learn how consuming marijuana in edible form affects the body and brain differently than smoking it. This film gives an overview of the types of edibles and how using edible marijuana can lead to addiction and impact different aspects of a user's life.
View trailer

National Geographic: World's Most Dangerous Drug

This 52 min. DVD from 2006 addresses the history and effects of methamphetamine on societies and individuals in the US and other countries.

Extended version sometimes available in its entirety online at nationalgeographic.com: View video.

Stanford Medicine's Tobacco Prevention Toolkit

The Tobacco Prevention Toolkit is a new, theory-based and evidence-informed educational resource created by educators and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students' use of cigarettes, cigars/cigarillos, chew, hookah, and electronic cigarettes. This online toolkit contains a set of lessons focused on e-cigarettes and vapes, messages on nicotine addiction, information and resources concerning positive youth development, and school policies that provide information about school tobacco policies and tobacco control efforts.
View it at med.stanford.edu.

Human Relations Media: Everything You Need to Know about Prescription & Over the Counter Drugs in 22 Minutes

This 22 min. DVD from 2012 dramatizes how prescription and over-the-counter drugs can be just as potent and addictive as illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin. It takes a close look at the do's, don'ts, and dangers of these medicines including the potentially deadly impact of drugged driving. Students learn how abuse of OTC drugs can lead to addiction, overdose and even death. They also learn to read and heed warnings against mixing medicines together and that drugs should only be used by the person for whom they are prescribed.

This resource includes a digital versions of activities, handouts, and assessments. The DVD contains Spanish subtitles. View a trailer at HRMvideo.com.

Human Relations Media: Everything You Need to Know about Alcohol in 22 Minutes

This 22 min. DVD contains four very short films dealing with topics such as condom use, STI testing, and pregnancy.

All Scenarios USA sex education films were written by teens for teens, then were professionally produced and edited in 2008. They've won several awards and critical accolades, and many contain appearances by famous actors. Characters are diverse in ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Human Relations Media: All You Need to Know about Tobacco in 22 Minutes

This DVD illustrates the health effects of smoking through the dissemination of facts and interviews with smokers. This film shares the addictive effects of nicotine as well as highlights the marketing of the tobacco industry towards our youth.
View trailer

Human Relations Media: Marijuana and The Teenage Brain

This is a 23 min. DVD that informs students about the latest research on the effects of marijuana on the brain. Animated graphics clearly show how THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, hijacks the brain's endocannabinoid system and harms the functioning of different parts of the brain associated with coordination, cognition and intelligence, and mental illness. Clinicians explain that it's possible to become addicted to marijuana and that the risk of addiction is higher for teenagers because their brains are not yet fully developed. The author of a long-term study cites research that shows that people who started using marijuana as teens show an average loss of 8 points in IQ. Recovering marijuana addicts provide a human face to the effects of marijuana. It includes a curriculum binder and digital versions of activities, handouts, and assessments.

Secondary Nutrition Resources

Health Smart High School: Nutrition & Physical Activity

ETR's Health Smart program gives youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long healthy behaviors. This 253-page book includes sixteen lessons on nutrition and physical activity, as well as assessments, handouts, a glossary, and a DVD of digital resources.
Recommended Lessons:

Lesson 1: Nutrition & Health

Lesson 2: Guidelines for Healthy Eating

Lesson 3: What's on My Plate?

Lesson 4: Reading Food Labels

Lesson 5: Eating Healthy at Fast Food Restaurants

Lesson 6: Physical Activity & Health

Lesson 7: Guidelines for Physical Activity

Lesson 8: Setting Healthy Eating & Physical Activity Goals

Lesson 9: Tracking My Progress

Lesson 10: Staying Safe During Physical Activity

Lesson 11: Finding Accurate Information

Lesson 12: Analyzing Influences on Eating & Physical Activity

Lesson 13: Influences on Body Image

Lesson 14: Managing Weight in Healthy Ways

Lesson 15: Disordered Eating & Compulsive Exercising

Additional Resources

PBS's Nourish

This 30 min. PBS special on DVD provides a big-picture view of the many ways that food connects to our environment, our health, and our communities. Most importantly, Nourish offers specific steps that individuals and groups can take to create a sustainable food future.

In addition to the half-hour PBS special, the Nourish DVD includes 11 short films, ranging from one to four minutes each:

"Edible Education" with Alice Waters
"Food Is Like Music" with Jamie Oliver
"Herbs" with Jamie Oliver
"No Free Lunch" with Michael Pollan
"Nourish Means" with 11 voices
"Supermarket Secrets" with Michael Pollan
"Try Something New" with Jamie Oliver
"Twinkie vs. Carrot" with Michael Pollan
"Urban Farms" with Bryant Terry
"Wake Up!" with Nadine Burke, MD
"Why Eat Local?" with Michael Pollan

Fed Up

Fed Up is a 92 min. documentary on DVD that is an examination of America's obesity epidemic and the food industry's role in aggravating it. Filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and TV journalist Katie Couric lead viewers through an exposé that uncovers why- despite media attention, the public's fascination with appearance, and government policies to combat childhood obesity-generations of American children will now live shorter lives than their parents did.

Food, INC.

In this 94 min. documentary on DVD, filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how large corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan, and footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

Choose My Plate

The food pyramid is gone and the plate has replaced it! Check this government website for numerous nutrition and physical fitness lesson plans and other materials for teachers.

Secondary Violence Lessons, Sexual Harassment Lessons Violence, Gun Violence Lessons

Recommended Lessons

Health Smart High School: Violence & Injury Prevention

ETR's Health Smart program gives youth the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and establish life-long healthy behaviors. This 343-page book includes eighteen lessons on violence and injury prevention, as well as assessments, handouts, a glossary, and a DVD of digital resources.

Lesson 12: Understanding Injury & Risk

Lesson 4: Preventing Cyberbullying

Lesson 6: Preventing Hate Violence

Lesson 7: Preventing Sexual Harassment

Lesson 9: Preventing Suicide

Lesson 13: Preventing Motor Vehicle Injuries

Lesson 15: Responding to Emergencies

Additional Resources

Hands-Only CPR Training

San Francisco Unified High School students are trained in hands-only CPR by fire fighters and EMTs through the San Francisco Fire Department and American Heart Association.

Download: HCPR Lesson and Material

Secondary Pride Resources | Open the Door and Get Out and Explore | Get Out and Explore Flyer

PBS's Frontline: Growing Up Online

This 56 min. DVD from 2008 looks at the impact of the Internet on adolescence through the eyes of teens and their parents. The film takes viewers into the private worlds kids are creating online, from kids who are harassed and bullied, to kids whose only friends are on-line, to those kids who are celebrities on YouTube. FRONTLINE explores the complicated new lines being drawn between the real and virtual worlds for today's children and for their parents.

Sometimes available in its entirety online at PBS.org: View video

PBS: Spillover: Zika, Ebola & Beyond

This 56 min. DVD from 2016 addresses some increasingly common viruses. Zika and Ebola-like rabies, dengue, and other killer viruses-reside in animals and spill over into humans. Today, spillover diseases are more common, and we are more vulnerable. Now, scientists are on the hunt for deadly diseases, hoping to stop them before they spill over and spread out of control.

Sometimes available in its entirety online at PBS.org: View video.

Environmental Health

Mapping Greenhouse Gas Emissions Where You Live
Learn more at EPA.

Green Roofs+ Greener Streets = A Cooler City
Learn more at PBS
In the California Drought, What Is My Role?
Learn more at PBS

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The following math course sequence diagrams provide clarity to the variety of options available to San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) high school students. Within each diagram there are...

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Information about San Francisco Unified School District Youth Outreach Worker Program.
Image description: Five high school students in a row smiling to encourage students to apply to be a youth outreach worker.

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There are so many ways you can remove barriers for students to access learning.  Check out the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines for more ideas on how you can implement UDL to optimize teaching and learning. KW

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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

UDL Rising to Equity

Because the UDL Guidelines are meant to be informed by feedback from the field as well as new research, they have been updated several times in the past. We are in the process of updating the Guidelines once again in our UDL Rising to Equity initiative.

This update will focus specifically on addressing systemic barriers that result in inequitable learning opportunities and outcomes. CAST aims to develop a transparent, inclusive, and community-driven process. If you are interested in collaborating and staying updated on our progress, we invite you to complete a brief survey. Do you use social media? Join the conversation happening now in the #UDLrising hashtag.
Meet the UDL Rising to Equity Advisory Board Meet the UDL Rising to Equity Stakeholder Council

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JW

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Students with designated accommodations and English Language Learners are supported through the Universal Tools, Designated Supports, and Accommodations Student Accessibility Reference Tool. Supports active on the SEIS system for students with IEPs will automatically load to IAB and ICA assessments.

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Student, Family and Community Support Department -- SFUSD: San Francisco Unified School District

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SFUSD Office of Pupil Services - PBIS 2018-2019 (updated 1/3/18)

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Find evidence based strategies for the classroom to increase students' use of appropriate behaviors.  Read explanations, examples, non-examples, and supporting research for Tier 1 strategies in the classroom in this document.
EM

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Movement and mindfulness breaks are a great way to help students reset and refocus. See examples of movement and mindfulness breaks at Go Noodle.
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The school health manual provides resources on responding to emergencies, such as asthma attacks in the school setting.
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Elementary teachers can find out more about the Math Milestone Tasks on the Math Math Milestone Task Overview Page.
KB

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I had no real awareness of screen readers and their strengths and limitations.  For a screen reader, something like "find out more, click here" and having everything needed to understand what the link is about as part of the link text, like "Find out more about meaningful links!" is a world apart (from a screen reader's point of view.)
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Google Classroom is a great way to have learners submit digital work. Learn more about using Google Classroom for grading and feedback. -JP

Note: Remember that screen readers will list off all links on a page without any of the surrounding context, so my linked text gives quick context and meaning to the linked text.

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1. Watch video of handmade landfill orchestra or other inspirations, and Vibration and Pitch

2. View images/videos of architects and buildings (All Girl Team, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry)

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Support our Students Experiencing Homelessness

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Support our Students Experiencing Homelessness

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Find amazing resources and protected legislation for our Students and Families Experiencing Homelessness (SAFEH) in SFUSD, - CS

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Thank You SF Voters for Putting Children and Families First

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Thank You SF Voters for Putting Children and Families First

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Prop C takes a holistic approach to funding children's and youth services in San Francisco and established the Our Children, Our Families Council. The Our Children Our Families Council of San Francisco leverages and coordinates the systems of support in San Francisco to align efforts across the city and county, the school district, and the community with the aim of improving outcomes for children, youth and families in San Francisco.
-EK

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Technology can be a powerful lever when content and tools are designed with all learners in mind. Powerful use of technology integrates use of the key 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. Learn more about 21st century skills.

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To support observers in assessing EL strategies in classrooms, we drafted the ELD Continuum Rubric. -RS

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Allison Rothman and Jessica Pederson have done an awesome job getting us prepared to get the most out of this week's OBProL workshop at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School! -SK

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Explore ways to use research in online learning - RE

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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I visited an art class in SF this week that was implementing Arts Based Research, and according to the students they are loving it in middle school. A notebook image shows an interest in shoe design, and another a brainstorm about animation. What a great visit!

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Find Synergy TeacherVUE and Gradebook resources.

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SFUSD's Service Standards help us consistently provide high-quality service to our students, colleagues, families and community.
- Jill Schiager

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SFUSD Service Standards Poster FINAL edited no marks.pdf

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Before you begin, review the rules for writing meaningful links.  -BRY

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Check out this framework for high quality project based learning. -JF

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Check out our suggested DLD Activity Guide as well as example Secondary Curriculum Ideas on how to celebrate!
- Dan Frost

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Student Performance Application for SFUSD Arts Festival

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Student Performance Application for SFUSD Arts Festival

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Access performance
application -CTB

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2019 San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival

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The San Francisco Unified School District proudly presents the SFUSD Arts Festival; a celebration of student creativity in visual, literary, media, and performing arts hosted by the Asian Art Museum in the Civic Center from April 27 to May 5, 2019. (The museum will be open on Monday, April 29th for school groups only.)

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Learn more about a Comprehensive School Counseling Program in SFUSD!
-Mariana

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Click here for CBEST practice materials.  -CK

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Learn more about Buena Vista Horace Mann
-ML

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Here's a video about writing image descriptions.  -SC

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Learn more about SFUSD's Community Schools & Family Partnerships. - BL

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Use this easy to use Screen Video Recorder - DM

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follow SFUSD Counselors on instagram!
-AM

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Before you begin, review the rules for writing meaningful links.  -BRY