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| Team Nez Perce |
In February 2011, the Nez Perce Coordinated School Health Team provided professional development on Health Education Standards and Assessment to 37 elementary, middle, and high school teachers from each of our partner schools. This training was made possible with the help of the Idaho Coordinated School Health Team.
In 2010, HEAP I was made available to our partner schools and other local health education instructors. Rather than bringing back only HEAP II we made HEAP I available to those educators who were unable to attend which made them eligible to attend the HEAP II session. The Health Education Assessment Project (HEAP) provided information on utilizing the HEAP framework to align standards, assessment, and instructional activities; practice scoring student work; explanation of the National Health Education Standards and the newly adopted Idaho Health Education Standards including the core concepts and skill categories; and utilizing the HEAP web-based assessment system to develop summative assessments, access performance tasks and use items for formative assessments to check for understanding.
HEAP not only provided access to unlimited web-based health education materials, it sparked our educators and some teachers have already implemented the new health education into their classrooms. In addition, we have acquired new members to our School Health Councils from participants that were interested in CSH after attending the HEAP training. Follow-up and support will be made available to our partner schools participants by our Nez Perce CSH Team.
Jaci Pérez
jacim@nezperce.org
