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The Buffalo Board of Education is conducting a textbook adoption. Accordingly, the Buffalo Board of Education request publishers to submit instructional textbooks for review and evaluation. A health education instructional textbook for middle school level health must consist of the following components: 1) educational materials to be used by students; 2) resource materials to be used by teachers to support the curriculum; 3) instructional technology, and 4) professional development training. The purpose of this RFP is to provide the Buffalo Public Schools with a rigorous, current, scientifically accurate, personal, and social, with hands-on learning and an interactive textbook that inspires the interest of students while engaging their minds in the learning process. The textbook will be used to teach middle school level Health Education and must be aligned to the New York State (NYS) Health Education Learning Standards, the NYS Guidance Document for Achieving NYS Health Education Learning Standards (including authentic skill and functional knowledge learning assessments and rubrics), related NYS Education Laws and Commissioner Regulations, the Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT), and cover a wide array of age-appropriate, medically accurate, and evidence-based/grounded in research health education topics appropriate for middle school students. Topics should include mental, emotional, and social health; family life and sexual health; growth and development; nutrition; personal health; substance use and abuse; disease prevention and control; safety and first aid; consumer health; community and environmental health management; and violence, injury prevention, and bullying. The textbook should enable students to adopt and maintain life-long healthy and safe attitudes, knowledge, skills (self-management, relationship management, stress management, communication, planning and goal setting, decision-making and advocacy) and behaviors essential for students to be safe, healthy, and to achieve academically. The textbook should be designed to improve health equity and reduce health disparities and explicitly include sexuality education, including gender identify and sexual orientation education, and include sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking as per the New York State Erin’s Law (Chapter 187 of the Laws of 2019). BPS is looking to purchase a textbook for all its schools offering middle school level health education. This will be for students and teacher use. The textbook must be trauma-informed, linguistically appropriate, culturally responsive, offer supports for students identified as English Language Learners and Special Education as well as offer online resources and be available in English and Spanish.

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