ST. LOUIS — A sex education instructor with Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is among 10 teachers across the country to make Time magazine's Innovative Teachers list, chosen for making a difference for their students in a unique way.
Willow Rosen, who uses the pronouns they/them, teaches a curriculum that covers topics like anatomy, hygiene, puberty and sexual consent while being sure not to exclude anyone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. The lessons can be geared toward those in kindergarten through college.
The magazine called Rosen's shame-free and inclusive approach "revolutionary" in the United States, where sex education is often either not taught or sticks to abstinence-only messages.
