Teachers and school administrators often ask me for recommendations about what lesson plans or curriculum they should use in class. I’ve collected my top choices on my Resources page.

Here are some suggestions for teaching about Growth, Development and Sexual Health:

• Curriculum: Be Real. Be Ready. (High School)

• Curriculum: Healthy Me. Healthy Us. (Middle School)

• Curriculum: 3Rs (K-12)

• Curriculum: Inclusive Sex Education

• Curriculum: TeachingSexualHealth.ca

• Curriculum: Sexuality for All Abilities

• Curriculum: Relationship ‘Zine Project and Digital ‘Zine Template

• Curriculum: The Truth About Pornography: A Pornography Literacy Curriculum for High School Students

• Curriculum: Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship lessons

• Resource: ​California Health Education Framework

• Resource: CaliforniaHealthEducation.org

• Resource: Principles of Gender-Inclusive Puberty and Health Education

• Resource: Candor Health’s Sex and Technology Portal

• Resource: The Reckoning: Teaching About the #MeToo Movement and Sexual Harassment

• Resource: One Love

• Resource: Love Is Respect

• Resource: Amaze.org

• Resource: Sexuality Education Resources for Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities

• Resource: YouTube Playlist: Sex Ed for People With Disabilities

• Resource: Sexuality & Disability

• Resource: Sex Education Tools for Autistic, Neurodiverse, Intellectually and/or Developmentally Disabled Young People

• Resource: Scarleteen

• Resource: Sex Positive Families

• Resource: Answer

• Resource: SHAPE America Health Teacher Toolbox

• Free online teacher training: Growth, Development, and Sexual Health

• Free online teacher training courses: Sex Ed to Go

• Free online teacher training: Sexual Health Educator Training Program

• Book: Beyond Birds and Bees: Bringing Home a New Message to Our Kids About Sex, Love, and Equality

• Book: S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties

• Book: Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up

• Book: Good Sexual Citizenship: How to Create a (Sexually) Safer World

• Book: Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between

• Article: “How High School Sex Ed Can Help Prevent Rape In College”

• Article: “The Key to Curbing Campus Sexual Assault Lies in High School Health Class”

• Article: “Students Deserve Real Sex Ed”

• Video: “The Sex Ed Crisis: LGBTQ Youth Aren’t Getting the Sexual Education They Deserve”

• Radio Interview: The Future of Sex Education in a Post-Roe America

• Radio Story: Teaching "Yes Means Yes" in High School Health Classes

• Radio Story: “The History of Sexuality Education in California”

• Radio Story: “Yes Means Yes: Teaching Teens Affirmative Consent”

• Standards: National Health Education Standards

• Standards: National Sex Education Standards

• SHAPE America Position Statement: Sex Education is a Critical Component of School Health Education