The aim of senior high school Career and Life
Management (CALM) is to enable students to
make well-informed, considered decisions and
choices in all aspects of their lives and to develop
behaviours and attitudes that contribute to the
well-being and respect of self and others, now and
in the future. CALM is the core course for health
literacy at the senior high school level in Alberta.
CALM Furthers the Alberta Learning Mission
In CALM, students continue to work toward
becoming “responsible, caring, creative,
self-reliant and contributing members of a
knowledge-based and prosperous society”
(Alberta Learning Mission statement, Business
Plan 2002–2005).
CALM is a Senior High School Component of
the Comprehensive School Health Education
Program in Alberta
Alberta Learning is committed to a comprehensive
approach to school-related health promotion.
Comprehensive school health education is a broad
spectrum of programs, policies, activities and
services that take place in