Building teams continue to meet to discuss academic intervention services for students. As we approach the end of the first marking period for students at the secondary level, those grades will be factored into the evaluation. Each student s record is being analyzed individually. Specific areas of deficiency and goals for intervention are being established. During the summer of 2000, health and home and careers staff members and administrators met to review both the health and the home and careers curriculums.
Students take health in sixth, seventh and eighth grade.
For example, while students study substance abuse in health, they will be analyzing consumerism, marketing, advertising and personal management in home and careers. Nutrition and eating disorders in home and careers will be coupled with the health unit on personal health and hygiene that covers eating habits, diet and fitness. The health unit on mental health is linked with a decision-making unit in home and careers. The district believes the integration of these two areas of study will help students understand the issues more deeply and help them make more healthy decisions as they go through this difficult developmental period. The health staff also expressed some concern about the increased use of alcohol and tobacco by adolescents.