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Featured Position Statement
New!  Released: 2021
 
Sex Education Is a Critical Component of School Health Education
SHAPE America supports age- and developmentally appropriate sex education as a critical component for all K-12 students in the United States. Standards-based sex education should be skills-based and comprehensive in scope. It should use accurate information and be responsive and affirming to the culture, identities, and lived experiences of students, families, and the community.
Featured Guidance Documents
New!  Released: 2019
 
Health Education Program Checklist
This guidance document is designed to help school administrators, principals, teachers of health education, and parents review their school health education program to ensure it addresses what SHAPE America has identified as the “essential components” of health education.
Featured Guidance Documents

New!  Released: 2019
Essential Components of Health Education
The Essential Components of Health Education guidance document outlines the essential components that provide the structure for an effective health education program, as well as evidence supporting why health education is a key element of a well-rounded education for all students.
Position Statements

        Released: 2018
Supporting the Implementation of School-Based Employee Wellness Programs
SHAPE America supports schools in planning, implementing and sustaining school-based employee wellness policies and programs.
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Survey Report
       Released: 2018
Student Recruitment for Physical Education and Health Education Teacher Education Programs
There is a pressing need to address recruitment and admission challenges for physical education and health education teacher education (PETE/HETE) programs. Many PETE/HETE programs are struggling to recruit students and this has important implications for PETE/HETE’s contribution to the teacher pipeline, teaching quality, and K-12 student learning.
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        Released: 2018
Health Education is a Critical Component of a Well-Rounded Education
SHAPE America's position: SHAPE America believes that a preK-12 comprehensive skills-based health education program is a critical component of a student’s well-rounded education in order to support healthy and academically successful students.
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        Released: 2016
Using the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model to Ensure Student Health and Success
SHAPE America's position: SHAPE America supports schools' use of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model as a framework for ensuring that students are healthy and successful academically.
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The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition, presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education that prepares students for success in the 21st century. It provides educators all they need to build, teach, and assess a health education program that will help their students become health literate, develop self-efficacy, and gain the 21st-century skills they need to maintain or improve health and well-being.