• Instructional Resource/Program

    Middle School Health Education Program Description

    Teen Health (Textbook)

    Teen Health is an application-based program for middle school health students that teaches the 10 critical health skills that align with the National Health Standards. The program’s robust text and supplemental student and teacher resources explore information and statistics on timely, relevant topics. Teen Health provides unique flexibility in access to meet the needs of all classroom styles (traditional, digital, or blended) and district needs

    Choosing the Best PATH curriculum (Human Sexuality)

    Seventh grade health classes utilize the Choosing the Best PATH curriculum which includes eight lessons/sessions. Students learn the facts about risks and consequences of sex before marriage, as well as the benefits of choosing healthy relationships. Students are provided the tools to develop the skills, character, and commitment to remain abstinent until marriage.  

    Topics include: 

    According to House Bill 2515, before a student may be provided with human sexuality instruction, a school district must obtain the written consent of the student’s parent/guardian. The parent/guardian must sign a permission form to allow his/her child to participate in the curriculum.  Parents are entitled to review the curriculum materials. Parents may choose to become more involved with the development of the curriculum used for this purpose by becoming a member of the District’s School Health Advisory Council (SHAC). Please see the campus principal for additional information.  

    ASPIRE

    (Tobacco & Vaping)

    ASPIRE is a free online educational resource from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. ASPIRE delivers tobacco prevention education to teens and adolescents at a self-directed pace. The program is evidence-based and tackles the full range of traditional and emerging products such as e-cigarettes, hookah, JUUL, and synthetic marijuana. During the program, students travel through interactive modules and complete quizzes. They hear testimonials from former smokers, health care professionals, students, and cancer survivors. The program is available in both English and Spanish and aligns with national education standards. 

    CATCH My Breath

    (Vaping)

    CATCH My Breath is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based youth vaping prevention program developed by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health. The program provides up-to-date information to teachers, parents, and health professionals to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about the use of e-cigarettes, including JUUL devices. CATCH My Breath utilizes a peer-led teaching approach and meets National and State Health Education Standards. 

    Project Alert

    (Drugs & Alcohol)

    Fort Bend ISD has chosen Project Alert as the prevention program to use in the District’s middle school health curriculum The Project Alert program is a classroom-based substance abuse prevention program for 7th and 8th graders that is proven to reduce the experimental and continued use of drugs. When taught with fidelity, the Project ALERT curriculum motivates students against drug use, cultivates new non-use attitudes and beliefs, and equips teens with the skills and strategies they will need to resist the substances most prevalent among teens.  

    In accordance with the Texas Education Code, Section 28.002(w), school districts must adopt an evidence-based prescription drug misuse awareness programs which include programs, practices, or strategies that have been proven to effectively prevent nonmedical use of prescription drugs among students, as determined by evaluations that use valid and reliable measures and that are published in peer-reviewed journals. The program must be listed by TEA and identified in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) and meet the statutory requirements for an evidence-based program. 

    Hands Only CPR

    (CPR Instruction)

    This requirement for CPR instruction is a graduation requirement and must be documented on the student’s transcript. CPR instruction must include training that has been developed: by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross; or using nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and incorporating psychomotor skills to support the instruction. For purposes of Subsection (e), “psychomotor skills” means hands-on practice to support cognitive learning. The term does not include cognitive-only instruction and training.

    The State Board of Education by rule as prescribed in SBOC (House Bill No.897) requires all graduating students to receive instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during some designated point of students 7 through 12 grade years. 

    One Choice Changes Everything – CVS

    (Opioid Education)

    One Choice Changes Everything is a no-cost educational prevention program that provides students and parents with information about prescription drug misuse and abuse. The program is delivered by a licensed pharmacist from CVS.

    Consequences Program – Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department

    The Consequences Program is facilitated by a Fort Bend County Sheriff during middle school health class.  The topics covered are juvenile justice, property crimes, theft crimes and alcohol, tobacco and marijuana offenses.

     

    Instructional Resource

    High School Health Education Instructional Resources and Programs

     

    Glencoe Health (Textbook)

    Glencoe Health provides high-school students with age-appropriate content that aligns with the National Health Education Standards to help them become health-literate individuals. This research-based program focuses on the development and application of critical knowledge and skills during a crucial period in students' lives.

    Choosing the Best JOURNEY curriculum (Human Sexuality)

    Choosing the Best JOURNEY curriculum covers eight highly relevant topics to high school teens, like how to make healthy decisions about dating, relationships, marriage, and family. This eight-lesson curriculum communicates the value of committing to abstinence. “Each lesson balances information about healthy choices with activities and role-plays that help guys and girls practice saying ‘NO.’ “ 

    ASPIRE

    (Tobacco & Vaping)

    ASPIRE is a free online educational resource from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. ASPIRE delivers tobacco prevention education to teens and adolescents at a self-directed pace. The program is evidence-based and tackles the full range of traditional and emerging products such as e-cigarettes, hookah, JUUL, and synthetic marijuana. During the program, students travel through interactive modules and complete quizzes. They hear testimonials from former smokers, health care professionals, students, and cancer survivors. The program is available in both English and Spanish and aligns with national education standards. 

    CATCH My Breath

    (Vaping)

    CATCH My Breath is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based youth vaping prevention program developed by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health. The program provides up-to-date information to teachers, parents, and health professionals to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about the use of e-cigarettes, including JUUL devices. CATCH My Breath utilizes a peer-led teaching approach and meets National and State Health Education Standards. 

    Life Skills

    (Drugs & Alcohol)

    LifeSkills is a classroom-based tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse prevention program for high school students. The goals of LST are to prevent tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug abuse by targeting key risk and protective factors associated with these behaviors.  

    The Health curriculum strictly enforces prohibitions against the use of all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), or any other electronic vaporizing device by students and others while on school property and at school-sponsored and school- related activities. See Policies FNCD (Legal), GKA (Legal), and the Student Code of Conduct posted on the District website at https://www.fortbendisd.com, under Student Affairs. 

    Hands Only CPR

    (CPR Instruction)

    CPR instruction is a graduation requirement and must be documented on the student’s transcript. CPR instruction must include training that has been developed by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross; or uses nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and incorporating psychomotor skills to support the instruction. For purposes of Subsection (e), “psychomotor skills” means hands-on practice to support cognitive learning. The term does not include cognitive-only instruction and training.

    One Choice Changes Everything – CVS

    (Opioid Education)

    One Choice Changes Everything is a no-cost educational prevention program that provides students and parents with information about prescription drug misuse and abuse. This program is delivered by a licensed pharmacist from CVS.

    Parenting and Paternity Awareness (p.a.p.a.)  

    (Parenting Education)

    Parenting and Paternity Awareness (p.a.p.a.) is an evidence-based, educational curriculum designed for young adults. It teaches them the benefits of waiting to become a parent until after they have completed their education, started a career, and are in a stable committed relationship. 

    The p.a.p.a. program is a way school districts can comply with state law requiring high-school health to include a parenting and paternity awareness curriculum. The Office of the Attorney General provides this free curriculum and training to teachers, school counselors, school nurses, teen parent program staff, and parent educators in community-based programs.

    Walking the Line – Fort Bend County Sheriffs Department

     

    The Walking the Line Program is facilitated by a Fort Bend County Sheriff during high school health classes. The program continues reinforcement of the topics covered in their Consequences Program ( juvenile Justine, property crimes, theft crimes and alcohol, tobacco and marijuana offenses) presented to middle school health classes with two additional lessons: Dangers of Drinking & Driving and Teens & Violence.