Intersectionality is a theory that was developed in the 1980s by the African-American legal scholar Dr. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. She defines it as "a metaphor for understanding the ways in which multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and they create obstacles...
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...
Educators may use the following questions to prompt students to reflect on their actions in the Gather and Organize component (Alberta Learning, 2004): Is there any information you still need to add? Where else could you look for information? Does the information you collected answer the question...
Dear Friends of Ophea, On behalf of Ophea’s Board of Directors and our entire staff team, we wish to extend our sincere appreciation for your support, perhaps at no time more meaningful than in recent days following the discontinuation of our annual Health & Physical Education (H&PE) curriculum...
RAFT is an acronym for Role, Audience, Format, and Topic. These four words are used as headings across the top of a grid, and a number of options are created in each row accordingly. Students read across the rows to learn the role they are going to assume, the audience they will address, the format...
Ophea is building towards an education system that fosters healthy school communities and gives every student a foundation to thrive. Ophea’s approach aims to align partners in the sector under a common goal, bringing research, policy, and practice together to impact the health and well-being of...
We are learning to describe how advertising, food marketing, and media affect food choices; We are learning to explain how advertising and media influences can be evaluated to help people make...
