N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.401 - Health and Wellness Education Program, July 1, 2015

(a) In addition to Ed 306.26 and Ed 306.27, the local school board shall require no later than July 1, 2015, conditioned on legislative approval, that a systematic, developmentally appropriate, sequential, and comprehensive health and wellness education program be provided for grade k-12 students and taught pursuant to RSA 189:10.

(b) The health and wellness education program in every school shall provide cohesive, planned, skills-based learning strategies at each grade level that enable students to successfully:

(1) Comprehend concepts and demonstrate functional knowledge of enduring ideas, practices, and current issues related to health and wellness promotion and disease prevention, encompassed by key content and skills;

(2) Analyze the effect of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other influences on healthy behaviors;

(3) Demonstrate accessing and using valid health information, including digital resources, reject unproven resources, and discern reliable health products and services;

(4) Demonstrate using a variety of interpersonal communications skills to enhance healthy relationships, convey health and wellness information, and avoid both conflict and health risk behavior;

(5) Practice and adopt personal social skills and behaviors that protect and promote health and wellness and reduce health risks;

(6) Practice and demonstrate calculating the material and ethical effects of decisions and decision making;

(7) Practice and demonstrate using goal setting skills effectively to achieve wellness;

(8) Demonstrate advocating for personal, family, school, and community health; and

(9) Practice and be prepared to make safe, appropriate, healthful behavioral choices during college and careers, using skills and competencies demonstrated in school to address novel and future health decisions.

(c) The health and wellness education program shall provide students with learning progressions that actuate college and career readiness.

(d) These cross cutting content areas and concepts integrate knowledge, critical thinking, problem solving, current developments, and robust experiences in the following core disciplinary areas, as identified in the national health education standards, across the following areas of health and wellness education:

(1) Substance use and abuse including tobacco, alcohol, and drugs;

(2) Injury prevention, safety, first aid, and violence prevention;

(3) Healthful eating and nutrition concepts;

(4) Family life, healthy relationships, child abuse prevention;

(5) Developmentally appropriate abstinence, comprehensive sexuality education, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases education;

(6) Behavioral health, social skills, emotional wellness, and suicide prevention;

(7) Personal and consumer health; and

(8) Community and environmental health.

(e) For all health and wellness programs schools shall provide for the ongoing, authentic assessment of student learning outcomes demonstrating competencies through multiple formative and summative assessment instruments that are aligned with the state and district content and performance standards.

(f) Examples of such assessment shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Teacher observations of student performance based on evaluation criteria that is aligned to concepts skills and practices;

(2) Competency-based or performance-based assessments;

(3) Differentiated health and wellness content specific competencies when the standards are addressed in a non-health and wellness or multidisciplinary course;

(4) Common assessments developed locally; and

(5) Project evaluation rubrics, applied to integrated curriculum assignments extended learning opportunities, and out-of-school learning environments.

(g) Each district shall establish and provide a comprehensive, sequentially designed, k-12 health and wellness curriculum designed to meet the minimum standards for college and career readiness and that provides for continued growth in all content areas consistent with RSA 193-C:3,III.

(h) For all the health and wellness programs schools shall report the academic performance of all students on a regular basis by providing the following:

(1) A summary of individual student performance to parents at least 3 times each year in each grade; and

(2) The opportunity for parents to meet individually with the student's teachers about the student's performance at least once during each school year.

(i) For all the health and wellness programs schools shall demonstrate how school and student assessment data are used to evaluate, develop, and improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Notes

N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.401

Amended by Volume XXXIV Number 16, Filed April 17, 2014, Proposed by #10556, Effective 3/27/2014, Expires3/27/2024.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 35, Number 27, eff.6/29/2015 is not yet available. The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 06, eff.1/8/2016 is not yet available.