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Steve Friesen, Raise the Bar Founder & Health and Physical Education Teacher (retired)
Ophea’s Sector Spotlight aims to illuminate the bright spots within the education sector through recognizing the critical work being done by community members and value-aligned organizations, and its impact on student and staff well-being. For over two decades, educators and student leaders across...
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Play for All: Strategies for Inclusive Intramurals
The Play for All: Strategies for Inclusive Intramurals resource has been developed to provide educators with access to resources to enhance their capacity to implement inclusive, meaningful, safe, and fun intramural programming that meets the needs of every student in the school community.
H&PE Online Learning
Ophea’s H&PE Online Learning Resources have been developed to provide educational and development-focused curriculum-linked resources to support educators, parents/caregivers and all students to keep progressing in their learning. Ophea’s H&PE Online Learning Resources include: Ophea Open Class...
Exploring and Applying Vaping Education within the Elementary H&PE Curriculum
Join us for an hour-long discussion as we explore the scope and sequence of learning about vaping within the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum for grades 4-8. We will be modelling learning strategies, based on lesson plans, and together, will apply a harm reduction approach and...
Ask Us: Vaping and Making Connections to the Elementary H&PE Curriculum
Join us and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) for an hour-long Q&A session on vaping and its connections to the Health and Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum for grades 1-8. The session will focus on answering your questions about vaping, adopting a harm reduction approach, and...
Ideas for Action
Ideas for Action is a free activity-based resource supporting leaders of all ages in the planning and implementation of activities that promote and enhance the health and well-being of students, school staff, and the broader community. This resource provides easy-to-use activities on the topics of...
Re-Imagining Intramurals with Aurora Grove Public School
Ophea’s Sector Spotlight aims to illuminate the bright spots within the education sector through recognizing the critical work being done by community members and value-aligned organizations, and its impact on student and staff well-being. This initiative also aims to strengthen connections between...
Safety in Numbers
Did You Know?
Cannabis – Know the Facts
Youth Perspectives on Identifying and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in the Classroom
On November 29, 2023, Ophea hosted a webinar in partnership with the Ontario Coalition for Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) ’s Draw the Line Campaign (#DTL16Days). Moderated by Ophea’s Curriculum Consultant Andrea Haefele (she/her), Youth Perspectives on Identifying and Responding to Gender-Based...
Cannabis – Issues, Trends, and Impacts
The Dangers of Substance Use
We are learning about the warning signs of problematic substance use and related behaviours and make connections to the consequences that can occur. We are learning to think critically to assess
Factors that Affect My Healthy Choices
How Do I Stay Safe When Using Technology?
I can identify the risks involved in using technology and I can describe precautions that I need to take and strategies to keep myself safe when communicating online and using technology.