Q&A
Sharing best practices and reporting timeline for HIV/AIDS education
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the sharing of best practices for implementing health education and the timeline for reporting HIV/AIDS education compliance in elementary schools.
- The Office of School Wellness Programs has recently started collecting and sharing best practices from successful schools
- They plan to create a 'menu of implementation' to help schools improve their HIV/AIDS education programs
- The deadline for reporting HIV/AIDS education compliance is typically in May
- The office provides mid-year updates to schools and districts about their compliance status and offers resources and support
Rita Joseph
1:43:31
And you said you were taking some of the best practices, for schools that are doing it at the minimum to spread.
1:43:38
How how how successful have you been at that?
Despina Zaharakis
1:43:41
So this is something that we just started, because we had a very successful phone call with a principal of an elementary school that had a great system for ensuring that all her kids got the required number of lessons.
1:43:54
And she laid it out for us.
1:43:56
And so we thought immediately right on that call, this is what we should be doing.
1:44:00
We should be capturing best practices.
1:44:03
Right?
1:44:03
Because she spoke about teacher quality.
1:44:04
She spoke about the quality, she spoke about the materials, she spoke about how she programs the kids, how she engages her school community, before providing the lessons that, hey, this is what we're doing.
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These are the lessons.
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This is what we're teaching.
1:44:18
So we felt that if we capture her information and tap into others to provide almost like a menu to schools and say, look, these are ways that you can implement the HIV lessons.
1:44:33
We're at the beginning stages of that because this conversation happened in June with the one principal.
1:44:41
So this is something that we're intending on doing, this menu of implementation.
Rita Joseph
1:44:47
The HIV lesson is it's in it's given to teachers in elementary.
1:44:52
We're gonna go to elementary in September.
1:44:54
Correct?
1:44:54
When is the deadline to submit it?
1:44:56
That it was that it was taught.
Despina Zaharakis
1:44:59
So sometime in May.
1:45:01
I'm not sure about this year's, but it's usually sometime in May.
1:45:05
And what we do is we pull the we get data, right, from another office that sort of owns STARS.
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We get data and we message sort of midyear, to all schools and all districts that, hey, by the way, this is the percent of your students that have gotten the required number of lessons.
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Don't forget, you know, this is this is the requirement.
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This is the deadline.
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These are the lessons, the curriculum.
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These are the training dates.
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And these are good ways of implementing, like, who should be doing it, and when.
1:45:42
So that package sort of goes to principals usually around March.
1:45:49
And then we also provide the same information to superintendents and their teams and say, this is how your schools are doing.
Rita Joseph
1:46:00
I'm gonna go to council member Hanif.
