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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Efforts to improve health education implementation
0:37:26
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Despina Zaharakis outlines various efforts being made to improve the implementation of health education in NYC schools.
- Regular sharing of data on health education and HIV lesson requirements with superintendent teams
- Increasing the number of on-demand teacher training opportunities
- Providing schools with translated lesson overviews and information to better engage families
- Encouraging superintendent teams to follow up with their schools on health education implementation
Despina Zaharakis
0:37:26
As part of this work, we share data on students meeting health education and HIV lesson requirements with superintendent teams on a regular basis and encourage them to follow-up with their schools.
0:37:39
We are also increasing the number of on demand teacher training opportunities, and we provide schools with translated lesson overviews and other information to better engage families on these important topics.