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Coordinated School Health

Coordinated School Health (CSH) encourages healthy lifestyles, provides needed supports to at-risk students and helps to reduce the prevalence of health problems that impair academic success. Coordinated School Health is an effective approach designed to connect health (physical, emotional, and social) with learning. CSH improves children’s health and their capacity to learn through the support of families, communities and the schools working together.


The involvement of parents, families, and community is the glue that binds the CSH. Full involvement of these entities as partners in the educational process provides valuable input, increases the commitment of all partners and ensures positive educational and health outcomes.

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Andrew Martin

Coordinated School Health Supervisor

Coordinated School Health Supervisor


As the Coordinated School Health Supervisor and Physical Education Supervisor for GMSD, Mr. Martin leads the healthy initiatives implemented throughout the district to ensure our students are adequately prepared to become life-long lovers of physical activity, health, wellness, and care for their social-emotional well-being.

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Family Life Overview

The Germantown Municipal School District (GMSD) proudly uses the Michigan Model For Health (MMFH) programs and curriculums to instruct our Family Life Education Programs!

​The MMFH curriculums and programs provide a holistic approach to instruction that serves as a foundation for teaching topics that pertain to human growth and development, nutrition education, physical activity, social and emotional learning, safety education and character education.

What is Family Life Education Curriculum?

The State of Tennessee defines "Family Life education" as an abstinence-centered sex education program that builds a foundation of knowledge and skills relating to character development, human development, decision making, abstinence, and disease prevention.

Kindergarten

This lesson helps students practice polite communication, recognize and manage emotions, learn healthy habits, identify safety risks at home and in emergencies, and understand how to prevent illness through proper hygiene.

Kindergarten Parent Letter

First Grade

This lesson reinforces respectful communication and problem-solving skills while teaching students how to stay healthy, recognize and report unsafe situations, respond to emergencies, use medicines safely, and prevent the spread of germs.

First Grade Parent Letter

Second Grade

This lesson supports students in expressing emotions and listening effectively while promoting healthy habits, physical activity, personal hygiene, and safe decision-making during recreation and daily activities.

Second Grade Parent Letter

Third Grade

This lesson focuses on helping and appreciating others while teaching students to make healthy food choices, recognize safe and unsafe situations, access help when threatened, use medicines and household products safely, respond to poison emergencies, avoid harmful drugs, and maintain personal hygiene.

Third Grade Parent Letter

Fourth Grade

This lesson helps students manage strong emotions, make healthy nutrition and activity choices, recognize and respond to dangerous objects, understand the effects of tobacco use, and develop a plan for maintaining personal hygiene and overall well-being.

Fourth Grade Parent Letter

Fifth Grade

This lesson guides students in seeking help and reporting safety concerns while exploring healthy nutrition, personal and online safety, substance use risks, safe decision-making, and an age-appropriate introduction to puberty changes.

Fifth Grade Parent Letter

Sixth Grade

This lesson helps students understand personal hygiene, heredity, and the human life cycle while building assertive communication and decision-making skills and providing an age-appropriate overview of puberty changes.

Sixth Grade Parent Letter

Seventh Grade

This lesson builds problem-solving, conflict resolution, and assertive communication skills while teaching students accurate information about HIV and STIs, setting and respecting personal boundaries, and using refusal skills to avoid risky situations.

Seventh Grade Parent Letter

Eighth Grade

This lesson strengthens problem-solving, conflict resolution, and assertive communication skills while helping students understand HIV and STI transmission, dispel myths, set and respect personal boundaries, and use verbal and nonverbal refusal skills to avoid unsafe or unwanted situations.

Eighth Grade Parent Letter

Ninth Grade 

This lesson explores healthy relationships, abstinence and STI prevention, effective communication and boundaries, influences on decision-making, dating safety and warning signs of abuse, and the legal and life responsibilities connected to pregnancy, parenting, adoption, and the Safe Haven Law.

Ninth Grade Parent Letter