NSEC Workshop Title: Opening Arms to Open Doors: Diversifying the Sexuality Field through Intentional Mentoring NSEC Workshop Description: This interactive workshop will offer new and experienced sex educators a deeper understanding of the value of a mentor, ways to find a mentor, what can be gained from someone different from you, strategies to bring to the surface… Read more »
Center for Sex Education Executive Director Bill Taverner recently spoke at the 2015 World Sexual Health Day, hosted by WAS and the UNFPA. This is a photo story of the day’s events. Bill Taverner’s prepared remarks are here!
Are you as excited as I am about the National Sex Ed Conference in December? I’m not sure it’s possible – but I hope you are! Interviewing conference workshop presenters has been amazing – I hope you’ve been keeping up on them through this blog. A new one is posted every Wednesday. This is a… Read more »
It’s not often that I swoon over sex ed videos. In fact, I usually try to avoid them like the plague. Sex ed videos are typically rife with misleading, stereotyped, incorrect platitudes designed to calm adult fears while leaving teenagers under-informed and questioning their rights about their own bodies. But nevertheless, I watch them, because one… Read more »
To whet the appetites of those planning to attend this year’s National Sex Ed Conference, and to provide incentive to do so for those on the fence, we’ll be posting some short interviews with this year’s conference workshop presenters. They’ve got some exciting things in store for us, and conducting these interviews has us eager… Read more »
The experience of publishing a book is brand spanking new for me. The experience of speaking to parents is not. I have found that what parents need most from me are these things: Information about sex that I wish they had learned when they were teenagers (birth control, STI prevention, relationship models, etc.), Information about sex… Read more »
From Norway through Denmark and finally now to Germany! I come to Germany every summer because my mother lives here. I have a pretty good idea about the public campaigns around sexual health that are available for public viewing. In fact, I’ve loved talking about them with my kids as we’re wandering around the country, both… Read more »
Today I am driving through Denmark – all the way from the tippy-toppiest northern city down to Germany. I hope you’ll come along on the ride with me as I ponder sexuality education here – which is very different from in the US! They’re actually undergoing a massive shift in Denmark, from a contraceptives-based-sex-education to… Read more »
Curious about what’s happening in sex ed? We’ve got it here! New Zealand to teach about pleasure?! Pleasure is high on the list of topics of what makes sex ed relevant for students of all ages. Without an acknowledgment of why most people have sex most of the time, the rest of the information can… Read more »
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I was talking with a colleague yesterday who was pretty overwhelmed with work. There was more training to write than she could possibly write before the training happened. This happens to all of us at one time or another, and as I have a few deadlines I’m working on myself, I thought it might be… Read more »
All the news that’s fit to print. Apps are where it’s at! There are new sex ed, sexual health, etc., apps popping up all the time. They can be hard to keep track of, so here’s an intro into the best that are currently out and soon to be released: It Matters, An Awesome Sex… Read more »
We’re back to 500 Lessons in 500 Days again! This week I’m focusing on lesson plans from Changes, Changes, Changes, the CSE’s manual on puberty education. In classrooms with post-pubescent students, condom usage is a common topic of conversation. Pre-pubescent (or newly-pubescent) students need similar kinds of information and hands-on experience with body care products…. Read more »
The CSE has a few new projects in the works, and this morning I’m just too thrilled by all of them to let my excitement go un-noted. So, in no particular order: A new edition of Unequal Partners! A new edition of Streetwise to Sex-wise! A brand new, never-before-seen manual on sexual orientation! Let’s take these… Read more »
How many of you, dear readers, do sexuality education outside of the classroom? Many of us do, whether we want to or not. We end up in conversations with our friends, family, and other communities where we need to help people catch up with basic information about sexuality. Sometimes it’s about contraception, sometimes it’s about clergy… Read more »
It’s all news to me! Marriage equality! The biggest news from last week was the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality. Because the news on that front is too expansive to even begin to summarize here, I want to start by linking to the court decisions in full. They are at times beautiful, at… Read more »
The momentous Supreme Court ruling on Friday on marriage equality brought forth some very powerful imagery: The Center for Sex Education is so happy to stand with our LGBTQ family and honor this special moment in history. We will take this victory as a time to remember and be encouraged that dedication towards social… Read more »
When I think about footprints, I think about the beach and those long lines of footprints you can see trailing behind you, in and out of the tide lines. It’s a happy thought, that leaves me fidgety for vacation. And then there is the other kinds of footprints. While they also show where you’ve been, they’re… Read more »
Your favorite place to read everything that’s sex ed newsworthy this week! The “Khan Academy of Sex Ed” is coming! The creator of MakeLoveNotPorn.com wants to bring sex ed into the ed tech realm. The topic has mostly been steered clear of by the big ed tech businesses, but Cindy Gallop may be able to… Read more »
