Natalie Bakody

Natalie Bakody has been an educator for just over 30 years. She began her career teaching grade Primary with the Halifax Regional School Board and went on to teach grades Primary-9, trained as a Reading Recovery Teacher, and was a Literacy Coach in a Primary-9 school. Natalie began her work as the curriculum consultant for Health Education and Physical Education for the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development in 2006 bringing with her a passion for curriculum development and implementation, and where she has had the privilege of working with and learning alongside equally passionate and knowledgeable health educators within government, the public and post-secondary school system, and community health. Natalie graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Science in Health Education and holds her Master of Education in Curriculum Studies with a focus on educational leadership and social justice from Mount Saint Vincent University. Natalie is an advocate for sexual health education in schools and sees the interrelationship between sexual health and all other facets of health and well-being. Over the last two decades, Natalie has had lots of conversations about sexual health education with families, school leaders, teachers, and with young people and is happy to share what she has learned so that others can also become advocates for and express more confidently why sexual health education in schools is so much more than meets the eye.