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    Instructional Programs and Services

    • Office of Teaching and Learning

    • Instructional Programs and Services

    • Educational Equity Policy

    • Multilingual Education Branch

    • Comprehensive Arts Education Branch

    • Advanced Academics and Gifted and Talented Education Branch

    • Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Branch

    • Mathematics Branch

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    Comprehensive Health Education Resources

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    MSDE Guidance and Technical Assistance

    COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH EDUCATION FRAMEWORK
    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
    HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS & FRAMEWORKS VALIDATION COMMITTEE (SFVC)
    SCHOOL WELLNESS POLICIES AND RESOURCES
    HEALTH EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING MODULES
    PREVENTING OPIOID USE AND ABUSE
    HEALTHY TEEN DATING
    INCLUSIVE PRACTICES GUIDE


    Public Health Resources

    NATIONAL HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS
    YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEY (YRBS)
    SCHOOL HEALTH PROFILES
    TEEN SEXUAL HEALTH SNAPSHOTS
    WHOLE SCHOOL, WHOLE COMMUNITY, WHOLE CHILD (WSCC) MODEL
    HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM ANALYSIS TOOL (HECAT)
    CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM
    VAPING-ASSOCIATED LUNG ILLNESS


    Community Partners

    MARYLAND’S ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
    MARYLAND STATE SCHOOL HEALTH COUNCIL
    MARYLAND CANNABIS PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL
    MARYLAND TOBACCO CONTROL RESOURCE CENTER
    SOCIETY FOR HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS (SHAPE) MARYLAND
    SOCIETY FOR HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS (SHAPE) AMERICA
    SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION (SOPHE)
    AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION (APHA)
    AMERICAN SCHOOL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (ASHA)



    Contact:

    Jason Semanoff
    Director of Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
    Office: (410) 767-0327
    jason.semanoff@maryland.gov


    Suzannah Ward
    Coordinator of Comprehensive Health Education
    Office: (410) 767-0527
    suzannah.ward@maryland.gov


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    Carey M. Wright, Ed.D.
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    Lieutenant Governor

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