Health
Westbrook's quality health education program includes a sequential curriculum spanning kindergarten through high school, supporting a vision of healthy children who develop to be their personal best academically, athletically, socio-emotionally, and cognitively.
Adopted by the Westbrook Board of Education 2013
Sexual Assault and Abuse Prevention and Awareness addendum presented to the Westbrook BOE 2017
Disclosure: The health education curriculum will begin its revision process during the summer of 2022 with a target end date of August 2024.
Social - Emotional Learning (SEL)
During the 2023–2024 school year, Westbrook Public Schools began implementing a comprehensive PreK–12 social-emotional learning (SEL) program tailored to each school’s needs.
Daisy Ingraham Elementary School adopted the Second Step curriculum. Westbrook Middle School introduced SEL through the WYN (What You Need) framework and the Discovery Project, which embed emotional and social skill-building. Westbrook High School will initiate SEL beginning in the 2025–2026 school year, offering three SEL lesson plans per grade level, organized by 9th through 12th grade, and written in curriculum map style, all of which were finalized on August 11, 2025. Below, you can find the high school SEL lesson plans, organized by grade level.
Elementary
High School
Disclosure: In 2022, the Connecticut State Department of Education released the "Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework" for Health and Physical Education.
Disclaimer from Westbrook Public Schools As of August 30, 2025, the high school health department updated its entire curriculum (Health I and Health II) to adhere to the state framework. In addition to the new curriculum meeting the key components of that framework, it also is tied to the National Health Education Standards, CASEL competencies, essential core content, and grade level performance indicators.
If you have any questions about this recently updated work, please contact the Director of Teaching and Learning at asaba@westbrookctschools.org. Thank you!
