Great. Good evening everyone. So I just wanted to recap why I come to the table every year so policy IF states the following things and we're really going to focus mainly on bullets two and three tonight so what you direct the staff to implement as far as the curriculum is concerned and then the fact that you will review and approve the district develop curriculum each year. So I'm going to go through some I've given you access to the documents that I think are the most important for you to approve and then I'm going to go through and just sort of highlight some of those pieces for you tonight. I'm back to networking. Gina. I can go without slides too if you want. Okay. I'll go without slides. So imagine a slide that talks about the self-study process so just a reminder that as a part of policy IF we talk about a curriculum review process. We have a six-year cycle for each content area within the school district.

So imagine a slide that talks about the self-study process so just a reminder that as a part of policy IF we talk about a curriculum review process. We have a six-year cycle for each content area within the school district. Years one and two are really mainly a self-study and some time during year one each area goes to the teaching and learning advisory council which is a committee made up of a group of students throughout the district and administrators to just provide input through our work as we're studying, as we're determining what we're going to study and how we're going to approach that work and then year two sometime in the spring of year two we give a presentation to the board where we ask for your approval of long-range goals, the financials that are attached to those goals and you re-approve the curriculum for that content area at that time so just a reminder that the focus tonight and also in the spring the humanities groups are the ones that are going to come this spring so that's literacy, English language development, social studies, world language, fine arts and then we're going to have a technology piece which Luke and I will talk about later. Okay.

Years one and two are really mainly a self-study and some time during year one each area goes to the teaching and learning advisory council which is a committee made up of a group of students throughout the district and administrators to just provide input through our work as we're studying, as we're determining what we're going to study and how we're going to approach that work and then year two sometime in the spring of year two we give a presentation to the board where we ask for your approval of long-range goals, the financials that are attached to those goals and you re-approve the curriculum for that content area at that time so just a reminder that the focus tonight and also in the spring the humanities groups are the ones that are going to come this spring so that's literacy, English language development, social studies, world language, fine arts and then we're going to have a technology piece which Luke and I will talk about later. Okay. So our big focus with our curriculum Marzano states that in order to be a high reliability school you need to have a safe school, a safe school and a guaranteed and viable curriculum and guaranteed meaning it's aligned vertically and horizontally so across classrooms as well as across grade levels and then viable meaning we have enough time to implement that curriculum so a lot of our work we do in the summer is tinkering with that and making sure we have things that are aligned with state standards that are aligned within our system, within our district and then making adjustments to that.

Okay. So our big focus with our curriculum Marzano states that in order to be a high reliability school you need to have a safe school, a safe school and a guaranteed and viable curriculum and guaranteed meaning it's aligned vertically and horizontally so across classrooms as well as across grade levels and then viable meaning we have enough time to implement that curriculum so a lot of our work we do in the summer is tinkering with that and making sure we have things that are aligned with state standards that are aligned within our system, within our district and then making adjustments to that. We developed a curriculum website as a way to be transparent with what we teach within our classrooms and so we put a lot of work into that and curated a lot of information for the public with that piece. This site will change with the upcoming changes to the district website and we're making some different kinds of changes to help make it a little easier to navigate and to understand some of those pieces so I think our time and theory of practice has shifted a little bit but always our goal is being transparent with what our teaching and learning environments look like in our classrooms so the pieces I'm asking you to approve tonight fall into four categories. One is our new courses and complete rewrites and we have a process we go through each year around new courses that I highlight.

This site will change with the upcoming changes to the district website and we're making some different kinds of changes to help make it a little easier to navigate and to understand some of those pieces so I think our time and theory of practice has shifted a little bit but always our goal is being transparent with what our teaching and learning environments look like in our classrooms so the pieces I'm asking you to approve tonight fall into four categories. One is our new courses and complete rewrites and we have a process we go through each year around new courses that I highlight. Some work around alignment within the district so when we make changes throughout the system. Reinstatement of courses so sometimes we, a course goes dormant for a little while because of student lack of interest or because of training for teachers, et cetera, and sometimes we reinstate courses and then just some minor adjustments that we make.