Teacher Resources

TUPE coaches are trained to facilitate lessons and collaborate with teachers in co-designing engaging content for students. Taking influence from Paolo Freire, we weave the following beliefs into our work as drug educators and youth advocates.

Youth have the capacity to make meaning out of their observations and experiences. Each student has diverse levels of skill, experience, and knowledge in the community.

Self-reflection and critical thinking can lead to positive action - whether within personal choices or policy change.

Participants are required to participate - share, dialogue, and work together.

To increase relevancy and student engagement, we don't teach drug education in a silo, but integrate it with broader topics and issues in life. In particular, we create drug education lessons on topics that intersect with current events and social justice movements, holistic health practices, technology, public health research, how racism, law, and politics shape individual and community health outcomes, and social change strategies that develop your leadership and activism. Through this model, students are then able to understand how broader physical, social, political, economic, ethical, and cultural contexts and histories influence drug use and prevention, and/or any other social justice issue that can be applied (i.e. nutrition).

"It is not enough for people to come together in dialogue in order to gain knowledge of their social reality. They must act together upon their environment in order critically to reflect upon their reality and so transform it through further action and critical reflection." -Paolo Freire

We are also available to support students with their senior capstone projects, internship activities, media content, and conducting circle process discussions on the topics of drug education, holistic health, and race, law, and politics, and cultural expression.

Contact us if you would like to schedule a presentation or discuss how our work could integrate and support your classroom syllabus and pathway goals.

Designing Lesson Plans

We have included some resources and tools below for designing and facilitating drug education lesson plans and activities.

We have over 25 pre-made TUPE presentations available in English and Spanish on topics ranging from Marijuana, Vaping, Alcohol, Addiction, Holistic health practices, Mindfulness, and Strengths-based Coaching for behavior change. Presentations have been curated with the needs of OUSD students, teachers, and parents in mind. Feel free to browse through the library. Below are some of our favorites.

Click on the resources below for more information:

Vaping	Marijuana Prevention and Student Activism	Marijuana and the Brain on Music
Mindfulness Techniques	E-Cigarettes and Vaping	Problem Behaviors: Drugs and Gang Involvement
Drug Prevention Parent Workshop	Brain and Addiction

TUPE Curriculum

Explore our Pre-made TUPE drug education lessons and classroom activities to engage students in learning about drugs and developing life skills. For students in grades 6-12

Educational Videos

Short and engaging videos exploring drug effects, the teenage brain, trauma, addiction, environmental risk factors, and more. Our sample discussion questions are applicable to all videos and will encourage students to reflect back on what they learn.

Kahoot

Test student knowledge of how drugs and alcohol affect young people's brains and bodies with Kahoot Games.

Username: Socratesmo

Password: scion2008

Classroom Resources on Drug Effects

Lessons, activities, and drug facts to educate teens about the effects and consequences of drug use.

Peer Education

TUPE coaches are trained in facilitating youth development activities and developing youth as Peer Educators and presenters for faculty, staff, and parents. If there are individual teachers that want to run their own Peer Education program, we are happy to support that. We have found that students trained as peer educators are one of the greatest resources we have as a community for addressing issues related to drug use.

TUPE curriculum: We have created a youth development/social change peer education curriculum that will empower you and your youth to be successful partners in bringing positive change in their community with integrity and authenticity. With this curriculum, adults will actively engage high school and middle school students in developing an understanding of tobacco harms and consequences, how big tobacco targets youth to get new users, current policies (environmental prevention) and what they can do to make healthy changes in their community.