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Title: Getting Real about Sex Ed: What Today's Students Need
Language: English
Authors: Shafia Zaloom
Source: Harvard Education Press. 2026.
Availability: Harvard Education Press. 8 Story Street First Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 888-437-1437; Tel: 617-495-3432; Fax: 978-348-1233; e-mail: hepg@harvard.edu; Web site: http://hepg.org/hep-home/home
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 304
Publication Date: 2026
Intended Audience: Teachers; Administrators
Document Type: Book
Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: Sex Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Sexuality, Play, Human Body, Child Development, Puberty, Adolescent Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
ISBN: 979-88-95570-59-3
Abstract: In "Getting Real About Sex Ed," Shafia Zaloom offers educators, administrators, and caregiving adults concrete language and strategies for integrating sexuality education into daily practice, beginning with students in kindergarten and carrying through to high school graduation. Zaloom advocates Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), a holistic framework for K-12 classrooms that addresses the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical aspects of sexuality. The book highlights how CSE scaffolds the sexual development of students as it gradually layers in age-appropriate information, skills, and positive values to practice and prepare for safe and fulfilling relationships, as well as how students can take responsibility for their own sexual health and well-being. Zaloom draws on the latest research and presents real-world scenarios from classrooms across the country that all educators face in developing students' personal citizenship. With warmth, empathy, and insight, she guides teachers beyond the classroom to the in-between moments of educational spaces: the lunchroom, playground, hallways, and transition periods. She models how educators can deliver developmentally appropriate lessons across grades to inspire personal reflection, integrity, and the capacity to connect with others in community. In this vital, actionable work, Zaloom ultimately shows how a comprehensive approach to teaching sexuality education equips young people with life skills they need to cultivate mutual respect, care, dignity, and joy in sustained relationships, whether sexual or not, and contribute to a compassionate and just society.
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