This curriculum is designed to be taught in school classrooms, as extracurricular after-school programming or at home with families.

The LETS! T.A.L.K. curriculum uses a learner-centered approach, whereby students learn and construct their own knowledge based on their own lived experience, social interactions, and input from their environment. A learner-centered approach encourages students’ active participation and use of reflective practices to think critically about their own lives. 

The LETS! T.A.L.K. program is grounded in a liberatory framework that is queer and trans affirming, anti-racist and body-positive. It integrates medically accurate content focused on increasing body literacy with discussion and activities that support self-discovery and collective learning. The resources and activities reflect diverse peoples; skin colors; and cultures and incorporate messaging that offers a liberatory framework by introducing classroom practices and communication strategies that promote anti-racism, body-positivity and shine a light on what are often unconscious assumptions and biases. In this way, the LETS! T.A.L.K. curriculum is a great accompaniment to lessons and classroom practices that focus on anti-racism.

We recognize how rapidly language, resources, and science changes – to ensure that this program remains current, we are committed to updating the curriculum annually.

Learn more in the introduction to the curriculum.

Teacher Training

We strongly recommend that teachers (and school staff) receive training in this curriculum prior to teaching it. Teacher training is provided by the educators of LETS! Get in touch with us to schedule a training.

What’s included?

Each curriculum subscription includes the lessons listed below, letters for families accompanying each lesson, a robust Adult Companion Guide packed with resources and vocabulary definitions, and suggestions for amplifying children’s learning by integrating the lessons at home.

Lessons Overview

• Lesson One: LETS! T.A.L.K. Introduction to the Unit.
• Lesson Two: LETS! T.A.L.K. Learning About Bodies.
  In this lesson we learn about the “middle parts” of the body, which we define as all of the visible parts between the neck and the thighs, and how they change and develop.
• Lesson Three: LETS! T.A.L.K. Getting to Know Me.
  This lesson is about celebrating diversity in the classroom and demonstrating the importance and beauty of diversity and interdependence within communities.
• Lesson Four: LETS! T.A.L.K. Gender.
  This lesson is about discussing gender identity, gender roles and celebrating self-expression.
• Lesson Five: LETS! T.A.L.K. Listening and Intuition.
  In this lesson we develop inner listening skills and confidence in knowing what YES and NO feel like in our bodies. 
• Lesson Six: LETS! T.A.L.K. Consent and Boundaries.
  We learn what consent means, what practicing consent looks like, and that expressing boundaries is healthy.  
• Lesson Seven: LETS! T.A.L.K. How Babies Are Made.
  This lesson is to clarify the biological process of reproduction and learn about the many ways that babies are made.
• Lesson Eight: LETS! T.A.L.K. Sexuality.
  In this lesson we learn about different sexual identities, and what sex and sexuality mean.
• Lesson Nine: LETS! T.A.L.K. Friendships and Feelings.
  In this lesson we learn about different kinds of relationships, respectful communication, and the pleasure of healthy connection between friends, family and trusted individuals.
• Lesson Ten: LETS! T.A.L.K. Yay! I’m Unique.
  The final lesson aims to encourage self-esteem and self-confidence specifically in relationship to students’ bodies and identities.
• The grade 3 and 4 curriculum includes 5 additional lessons that expand on the content above to include puberty, media literacy, and hormonal cycles.

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