In advance, California Education Code requires that:
- We provide you with an outline of the curricula we’ll be using with your students. Please keep this outline accessible to parents in case they want to review the material.
- You notify students’ parents or guardians at the beginning of the school year or 2 weeks before the instruction takes place. We'll offer you sample notification letters for puberty workshops, puberty and risk workshops, and sex ed workshops.
- We ask your principal or director to sign an agreement form with us specifying our mutual responsibilities.
Prior to visiting your classroom we hope to coordinate:
- classroom set-up
- homework
- ground rules
- classroom management
During and after our presentation, we hope you will:
- provide support by staying engaged in discussion
- provide constructive feedback after our presentation
- support and follow-up with students
- contact us with questions or for resources
We welcome any suggestions you have that may enhance the efficacy of our presentation. We look forward to working with you and meeting your students. Thank you again for inviting us into your classroom.
Teachers and School Administrators Ask Us . . .
Can your educator come to my class and do just one session?
We’d love to tailor workshops to individual needs, but that’s just not possible. Our grants and evaluation process specifically require us to complete at least 3 workshop sessions with each class. We can offer up to 5 workshop sessions. For our puberty classes, we need 4 sessions to complete our curricula.
Do we need to send out permission slips?
California Education Code does not require permission slips. However, you must notify parents and guardians at the beginning of the school year or 2 weeks before the instruction takes place. They must also be notified that if they don’t want their children to participate, they must write a note requesting that these youth be removed from the workshops.
What can I do to get parents involved and invested?
If we are given enough notice, we can offer an education night or information session for the parents and guardians of the youth we will be serving. We can review our workshop objectives and offer tools for families to communicate with their children.
How are English language learners’ needs met?
We have handouts in Spanish and some in Chinese. Some of our educators can offer Spanish workshops as well. Schools are required to ensure that students who need translation services supply them.
