Opportunity to Give Valuable Input

• By: CASC
• On: 11/11/2018 01:02:56
• In: CASC Blogs

Over the years I have had the privilege of serving on several state-level committees with the purpose of creating documents (i.e. standards, policy proposal, program development). What I have learned from these experiences is that there is priority given to feedback received from practitioners and from the public. Oftentimes, the committees I have served on have considered every single comment and often those comments are discussed by the entire development/writing team. Below is one of those chances for your feedback to be considered. A team facilitated by the California Department of Education are in the latter stages of writing the 2019 Health Education Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve. An invitation went out to Superintendents and others last week asking for input. That letter and links to the draft document are below. I believe a strong school counseling voice would be valued by the team, in particular, the broad perspective that are shared by school counseling professionals in the area of mental health, trauma and suicide, to name a few. Thank you. 

Invitation to Submit Public Comment on the Draft 2019 Health Education Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve 

The California Department of Education (CDE) is pleased to announce that the revised draft of the 2019 Health Education Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (Health Education Framework) is available for its second 60-day public review and comment period, which is scheduled from Nov. 1, 2018, through Jan. 11, 2019. 

The revised draft Health Education Framework is posted and can be downloaded from the CDE Health Education Curriculum Framework web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/ and includes over 200 edits that were submitted during the first 60-day public review and comment period. A public input template is also available for download from the web address listed above. Hard copies of the revised draft framework are available for review at the statewide Learning Resource Display Centers, listed on the CDE website at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/lrdc.asp. 

Comments from the public will be presented to the Instructional Quality Commission for review and possible inclusion into the final version of the Health Education Framework. The State Board of Education is scheduled to take action on the Health Education Framework in May 2019. 

If you have any questions regarding the public comment and review period or the Health Education Frameworkrevision process, please contact Lindsay Weiss, Education Programs Assistant, Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division, by phone at 916-319-0450 or by email at healtheducationframework@cde.ca.gov.