You’ve taken your passion for teaching to another level and realized your potential impact to change the conversation through a lens of social justice and racial equality. Now you want to push your impact even further by learning what it takes to become a dynamic educator.

Cue the confetti.

Here’s where you’ll refine the tools already available to support your work, and set the basic foundation for teaching impactful, inclusive sex education. Welcome to the next step in your path toward reshaping the conversation around sex and sexuality.

Time to buckle down.

Now you begin the six-session, 12-hour virtual instructor-led training. You’ll learn to teach through that lens of social justice and racial equity concentrated in medically accurate, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, LGBT+ inclusive sex education. We’ll concentrate on the skills you’ll need to take your work to the classroom and community. You’ll even get hands-on virtual experience, practicing your sex ed facilitation skills in the Advocates for Youth Virtual Classroom.

Ready? Let’s start here. You’ll learn:

• What makes exemplary sex education
• Values and boundaries
• How to address bias and stigma in sex ed
• Managing participant disclosure
• Answering questions

Pre-requisite

Complete the following Spark*ED Sex Education Foundations courses prior to beginning this course:

• Teaching Sexuality

Course Offerings

April 4 - May 2, 2023 (Tuesdays)

Oct 2 - 30, 2023 (Mondays)

All courses are offered from 12 - 2 PST/PDT