What's that? No one heard. Our traditional term paper was at 10th grade at the end of this consistent sequence and 11th and 12th grade kids choose a wide variety of electives. We have 18 different electives and things like that so we chose 10th grade and we chose the 20th century class and so forever in a day it was pick an event, an idea or an invention that has changed history and then you have to go out and get 10 paper. Anyone imagine the issues with that? In the age of AI it is almost impossible, right? So our 10th grade PLC and I've taught 10th grade for a number of years said we still want everything that you're saying. The inquiry, the sourcing, the complexity of taking a wide variety of sources and then sharing your information so we went, not crazy about this but we went from the written term paper, six to eight pages to an oral presentation, okay, so an oral presentation a student has to know what they're talking about. They can use their notes and things like that but in the age of AI it's not something that can be quickly downloaded. Now we've added to that and we talk about kind of some new initiatives that didn't make it into the board report.

They can use their notes and things like that but in the age of AI it's not something that can be quickly downloaded. Now we've added to that and we talk about kind of some new initiatives that didn't make it into the board report. We're trying as much as possible to make connections with Wash U so that is launched with some administrators to explain their research and how they go about it and how they do it and then our audience for our 10th grade students is Wash U kids who come over and critique their oral presentations and things like that so they're presenting to history majors at Wash U. I feel like we're missing out on some of the writing, the written component, but I feel like we're also addressing the reality of AI and still keeping a lot of those integral skills so when we think about the building of skills it's that 10th grade that we're hoping the kids have done all of these things, the cycle of inquiry numerous times, doing numerous ways along the way and so in 10th grade and I'm proud to say that's a college paper. You know what I mean? When I went to Dismet Jesuit that's what we did in English class at the end of 12th grade, right? That level of research to have for our 10th graders I think is and I would love to invite you guys when they do that this evening. Thank you so much. Chris?

Thank you so much. Chris? I'm really impressed with I loved it. I did. I really enjoyed reading the report. I thought it was fantastic. I really did. I love the feedback you got from parents. I'm so happy to hear that you got it from students too. I love where we're going with this and how the changes you've made are exactly in line I think with this profile as well as our values as a district so I'm very pleased to see that and I really appreciate your efforts to do it because I know it's not easy so way to go on doing that. It was the right thing to do and the other thing I'll say is one of your recommendations was your first your last one was you want personalized individualized inquiry and it said curiosity leads them to their own sort of pathway and that's kind of an amazing thing to think about. I think about that in science sort of but think of it in social studies I think is powerful too because I do think that we are hoping to build global citizens and part of that is knowing themselves and what drives them and therefore sort of tapping into that and saying okay go do this with this is what you can do with that so I really appreciate that part of what you're doing in a social studies setting so I also just want to say that I think it's different types of social studies.

It was the right thing to do and the other thing I'll say is one of your recommendations was your first your last one was you want personalized individualized inquiry and it said curiosity leads them to their own sort of pathway and that's kind of an amazing thing to think about. I think about that in science sort of but think of it in social studies I think is powerful too because I do think that we are hoping to build global citizens and part of that is knowing themselves and what drives them and therefore sort of tapping into that and saying okay go do this with this is what you can do with that so I really appreciate that part of what you're doing in a social studies setting so I also just want to say that I think it's different types of social studies. I know that my kids have really enjoyed them. I think it's such a good idea to give them that kind of choice and have different types of and realizing it's all in social studies but there's so many different aspects of it and I love that we offer all of those. I'm assuming we get really good turnout in most of those. Yeah. Okay. Great. So social studies get more APs than any other discipline by far? Exactly. Wasn't even close. Right because it's such a nice broad and I love that we offer so many gender studies. Who knew we offered that? I didn't know until now but it's fantastic.

Who knew we offered that? I didn't know until now but it's fantastic. Philosophy we offer, Sociology. Sociology. I was trying to say those at the same time but all of that is just incredible and I'm really happy that our students have the ability to take those types of classes so yeah that's all. Thank you very much for everything. We're sad to see you go. Thank you for everything you've done for this district. Nina do you have any questions? I have two really quick things. First I would like to say Mr. Solomon's seventh grade social studies class and the CNN 10 is like the sole reason I'm so interested in current events today and I still watch CNN 10 and I think Clayton is doing such a great job of incorporating current events and then it's second. You guys talked about so many amazing learning objectives and something I think is super valuable. Right now in my AP Gov class my teacher Ms.