I've been teaching health education in San Francisco for 11 years, and I'm currently the lead health teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District. I regularly write about health and health-related topics on my Mr. Health Teacher blog.
In addition to teaching, I've written about health, sexuality, relationships, food, travel, technology, and music for numerous publications including The San Francisco Bay Guardian, CitySearch, SonicNet, The West Australian, Daddy Dialectic, Oxygen.com, and Food & Wine. Before becoming a teacher, I worked as a sexuality educator on San Francisco Sex Information switchboard for more than 5 years, and I've done significant volunteer work focusing on rape and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Blog Posts
Drug addiction, pregnancy prevention, and eating disorders are all part of the curriculum in the high school health education class I teach. As attention-getting as those topics may be, I like to start the semester by focusing on a health issue that affects almost all teens in high school today...
Read More.Health education includes a lot of topics -- nutrition, fitness, substance use, mental health, violence prevention and communication skills, to name a few -- but the one that always gets the most attention is sex ed. And lately it's not just getting attention in class.
It's been all...
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