web01.fireside.fm Wed, 06 May 2026 14:37:52 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://narratingutah.fireside.fm/tags/public%20school Tue, 06 May 2025 13:00:00 -0600 Westminster College en-us episodic Secular stories from the Holy City of a small global religion. Eileen Chanza Torres Westminster College no Eileen Chanza Torres echanzatorres@westminstercollege.edu https://narratingutah.fireside.fm/38 46298dc5-ec95-4d68-84e9-139942130a02 Tue, 06 May 2025 13:00:00 -0600 Eileen Chanza Torres full 6 Eileen Chanza Torres Our episode is about sex education in Utah and how an abstinence based curriculum is not enough. We want to explore educators' perspectives on sex education and the corresponding history of curriculum in Utah. We dive deeper into the possibilities of sex education. 21:32 no <p>Our podcast starts out with a short history of sex education in the United States, but specifically in Utah. In the podcast, we dicuss our personal experiencs as students who grew up in Utah and we talk about our lacking sex education experience. This is followed by an interview with Marilee Coles-Ritchie, an education professor at Westminster University in Salt Lake City. As a teacher's teacher, Marilee dicusses her thoughts on this topic while referencing conversations she has had with other educators over her expansive carreer. We finish with a question about what sex education could look like. We dive deeper into this question and talk about what we would like to see in sex education. What can sex education be in Utah? In an ideal world would it look like? Come join us to try and answer these questions! </p> Sex education, Sex, Utah, School, Teacher, Healthy Relationships Our podcast starts out with a short history of sex education in the United States, but specifically in Utah. In the podcast, we dicuss our personal experiencs as students who grew up in Utah and we talk about our lacking sex education experience. This is followed by an interview with Marilee Coles-Ritchie, an education professor at Westminster University in Salt Lake City. As a teacher's teacher, Marilee dicusses her thoughts on this topic while referencing conversations she has had with other educators over her expansive carreer. We finish with a question about what sex education could look like. We dive deeper into this question and talk about what we would like to see in sex education. What can sex education be in Utah? In an ideal world would it look like? Come join us to try and answer these questions!

]]> Our podcast starts out with a short history of sex education in the United States, but specifically in Utah. In the podcast, we dicuss our personal experiencs as students who grew up in Utah and we talk about our lacking sex education experience. This is followed by an interview with Marilee Coles-Ritchie, an education professor at Westminster University in Salt Lake City. As a teacher's teacher, Marilee dicusses her thoughts on this topic while referencing conversations she has had with other educators over her expansive carreer. We finish with a question about what sex education could look like. We dive deeper into this question and talk about what we would like to see in sex education. What can sex education be in Utah? In an ideal world would it look like? Come join us to try and answer these questions!

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