Programs
The Classroom Curriculum and After School Program provided by Road of Life are certified with the National Health Education Standards; the Classroom Curriculum also meets the Ohio Benchmark and Indicator Core Academic Content Standards. Road of Life also provides a Summer Camp and a Family Program. All Road of Life programs feature modular designs, allowing single lessons to be taught or the entire course, and focus on four aspects of health: General Health, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Tobacco Use Prevention. Academic subject cores covering Mathematics, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science enrich these lessons. Currently there are thirty one lessons: 9 in General Health, 12 in Nutrition, 4 on Physical Fitness, and 5 on Tobacco Use Prevention. At the end of the curriculum, there is a Conclusion to Health Lessons, which wraps up all the knowledge from the previous lessons.
"The curriculum has already been through 3 internal iterations, developed by ROL's AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members, most of whom have Master's Degrees in Education or Public Health. The curriculum has recently been approved for use in the Columbus Public Schools by the Curriculum Quality Control Council (CQCC), and ROL is opening up a Cleveland office."
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