Informed Adolescence: Middle School Curriculum with Lessons on Teen Resilience, Sexual Health, and Boundary Setting: Heidi J. Sproull: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Informed Adolescence

Middle School Curriculum with Lessons on Teen Resilience, Sexual Health, and Boundary Setting

Informed Adolescence

Middle School Curriculum with Lessons on Teen Resilience, Sexual Health, and Boundary Setting

Description

The INFORMED ADOLESCENCE™ middle-school curriculum supports teen resilience through social and emotional skills; sexual health through developmentally tailored reproductive information and consent-focused context for sexual thoughts and feelings; and boundary setting through self-trust, risk mitigation, and practical skills for personal safety.

INFORMED ADOLESCENCE™
Introduction to the INFORMED ADOLESCENCE™ Curriculum
Teacher Preparedness
Fifth Grade
The Fifth Grade INFORMED ADOLESCENCE Curriculum Addresses Students’ Curiosity About The Changes to Come and Calls Them into Conscious Awareness of Their Ability to Impact Positive Relationships With Themselves and Others
Fifth Grade Teen Resilience
Module R1: What Qualities Make a Good Friend and What is Community?17
Module R2: Social Media and Electronics25
Fifth Grade Sexual Health
Module S1: Defining Health
Module S2: Causes of Puberty
Module S3: Effects of Puberty
Module S4: Managing the Changes of Puberty
Fifth Grade Boundary Setting & Personal Safety
Module B1: Introductory Boundary Setting and Personal Safety Skills73
Sixth Grade
The Sixth Grade INFORMED ADOLESCENCE Curriculum Supports Students as they Cross the Threshold into More Self-Awareness & Addresses Sexuality as Part of Overall Health
Sixth Grade Teen Resilience
Module R3: What are Respect and Compassion?
Module R4: Creating Classroom Agreements
Module R5: Consent vs. Compliance vs. Coercion
Module R6: The Basics of Bystander Intervention
Module R7: Understanding Emotions and the Web of Connection Exercise
Sixth Grade Sexual Health
Module S5: Birth Sex and Gender
Module S6: Sexuality and Sexual Orientation
Sixth Grade Boundary Setting & Personal Safety
Module B2: Continuing Boundary Skills & Assertiveness
Seventh Grade
The Seventh Grade INFORMED ADOLESCENCE Curriculum addresses Teen Challenges & Decision-Making, Reproductive Sex, Pregnancy, and Birth
Seventh Grade Teen Resilience
Module R8: Othering, Bias, Prejudice, and “isms"
Module R9: Sexual Slang Language
Module R10: Navigating romantic and sexual attraction and Behavior in relationships
Module R11: The Consent Certainty Matrix
Module R12: Making Sense of Sexually Explicit Media and Pornography
Module R13: Middle School Problem-Solving, Part One
Seventh Grade Sexual Health
Module S7: Introduction to Human Reproduction
Module S8: Male Reproductive System
Module S9: Female Reproductive System
Module S10: Sex for Reproduction
Module S11: Pregnancy & Gestation
Module S12: Labor, Delivery, Birth, and Variations
Seventh Grade Boundary Setting & Personal Safety
Module B3: Continuing Boundary Skills, Assertiveness & Self-Protection
Eighth Grade
The Eighth Grade Curriculum Supports students as they ask, “What do I need now and as I transition to high school?”
Eighth Grade Teen Resilience
Module R14: The Candy Consent Game
Module R15: Values Discernment for Decision-Making
Module R16: Mental Health and Wellness
Module R17: Alcohol and Substance Awareness and Decision-Making
Module R18: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Teen Dating Violence (TDV)
Module R19: Middle School Problem-Solving, Part Two
Module R20: Navigating the Transition to High School
Module R21: High School Panel Discussion
Eighth Grade Sexual Health
Module S13: Pregnancy Prevention
Module S14: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Sexually Transmitted Disease, and Safer Sex Practices
Module S15: Body Positivity, Self-Acceptance, and Sexual Health
Eighth Grade Boundary Setting & Personal Safety
Module B4: Continuing Boundary Skills, Assertiveness & Self-Protection
Concluding Thoughts
Parent Support Materials
Module P1: The Value of Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Module P2: Parenting Through Puberty Workshop
Classroom Activities Appendix
Bibliography
About the Author

Product details

Published	Mar 04 2025
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	364
ISBN	9781538197448
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	20 BW Illustrations, 73 BW Photos, 8 Textboxes
Dimensions	11 x 8 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

The use of multiple modalities and approaches to this important subject ensures successful execution and active, engaged student learning. Key concepts of consent and parent/teacher support are particularly unique and valuable.

From a pedagogical lens, the content is presented in modules that strategically build upon each other. The curriculum includes additional resources and support for teachers, as well as an imperative Parent Support Module, which ensures sustained integration of the information into the student's community and coming of age.

Additionally, the emphasis on diversity and inclusion, on social emotional skills and on bystander intervention are essential, valuable and much needed in this field. This curriculum has a practical, inclusive approach that makes the content accessible to a wide range of bodies, genders, and experiences.

Aiyana Masla, Sexual Health and Wellness educator, Interdisciplinary Artist, DEIJB Educator & Facilitator with Alma Partners, and co-author of LETS TALK (Liberatory Education Tools' Teach Affirm Learn Know) Sexuality and Gender for K-4
Heidi Spoull’s creative approach of intertwining her skillset as a sexual health educator and self-defense instructor lends to a unique curriculum for adolescents to learn consent negotiations and self-confidence

Kristen Lilla, LCSW, CST-S, CSE-S, and author of Vaginas and Periods 101: A Pop-Up Book, Colors of You, and Boxes and How We Fill Them: A Basic Guide to Sexual Awareness
Drawing on her extensive experience as a psychotherapist and 15 years of wisdom gained through teaching young people, Heidi Sproull has written a comprehensive, welcoming, inclusive curriculum on resilience and sexual health for middle-schoolers. This is an accessible, relevant, contemporary work that will serve as a much-needed practical guide for adults who know that the young people in their lives deserve clear information, so that they can take good care of themselves and each other.

Vicki Larson, co founder, Alma Partners