So the summer work really falls into these categories and this year our new courses, so part of our new course proposal process is that a curriculum committee goes through the approval through the committee, goes to the building leadership team for approval, comes to the curriculum coordinators council which is all disciplines and then ends with me so I have the last right of refusal or approval and so our new courses this year are amped on algebra which is a combined algebra and business course and really is something that we're super excited about because it's really moving into this real sign up for this class it's anybody who their course as a freshman would be algebra so college prep algebra they can sign up for that course. It's a two period course in conjunction with business and their work is really around running the school store and understanding algebra concepts through this idea of business and then when I met with the teachers the other day they expanded my mental model of this because how much of the class is it? on the class and they're using that class to print all of their shirts and everything so they're working on all of those pieces so it's an exciting course and it's team taught with a business teacher and math teacher so the students get credit for both. Can we ask them to get extra credit if they run the concession stand?

It's a two period course in conjunction with business and their work is really around running the school store and understanding algebra concepts through this idea of business and then when I met with the teachers the other day they expanded my mental model of this because how much of the class is it? on the class and they're using that class to print all of their shirts and everything so they're working on all of those pieces so it's an exciting course and it's team taught with a business teacher and math teacher so the students get credit for both. Can we ask them to get extra credit if they run the concession stand? I mean seriously we can't get anybody to run those and we get complaints from visiting teams all the time that we have a concession stand that is always closed. I can ask. Yeah. So our second new course is walking fitness so we add new courses and we review existing ones to determine what to sunset and so the PE Department is a good example of a department that has worked to freshen their offerings over the past several years from traditional courses like net sports to walking fitness and strength and endurance in hopes of meeting the needs of our students so walking fitness was their new course. The total revisions are complete rewrites. Middle school literacy all three grade levels we did a complete rewrite with a focus on increasing the volume of reading and writing and math.

The total revisions are complete rewrites. Middle school literacy all three grade levels we did a complete rewrite with a focus on increasing the volume of reading and writing and math. You all approved the accelerated courses last year and so we completed the curriculum work this summer. These are compacted courses that move at a more rapid pace while still addressing all standards so it's a compacted 6, 7 class and compacted 7, 8 class. Latin we chose a new resource for our Latin courses. The new text takes a more up to date approach to language learning which is interesting for Latin and the topics are more relevant to learners in 2025 so we're trying to make Latin a more relevant kind of exciting topic for students to study. And similarly Spanish adopted a new resource last year which you all approved and we had rewritten the college prep Spanish 1, Spanish 2 last summer and this summer we finished the sequence rewriting Spanish 3 and Spanish 4. So then our courses around alignment within the district, our biggest example of that is social studies so if you remember over the past couple of years we've talked about the changes at the elementary schools to put the standards back into the grade levels particularly at key stage 2, grades 3, 4 and 5.

And similarly Spanish adopted a new resource last year which you all approved and we had rewritten the college prep Spanish 1, Spanish 2 last summer and this summer we finished the sequence rewriting Spanish 3 and Spanish 4. So then our courses around alignment within the district, our biggest example of that is social studies so if you remember over the past couple of years we've talked about the changes at the elementary schools to put the standards back into the grade levels particularly at key stage 2, grades 3, 4 and 5. That then subsequently had a change to 6th grade social studies last year which was a focus more on sort of geography and that type of study of social studies and then this year the changes in 7th grade which is a statement of courses at the high school we've had a change in teachers in our theater program and so we reinstated musical theater 1 and 2 and technical theater so what was happening prior to this was those courses were offered outside of the school day and we're in conjunction with the productions so the spring production and the fall production and so this puts it back into the school day allowing wider access for students and it's not tied to the production anymore so it's allowed students to study musical theater without being a member of the cast of the after school production and then we worked on alignment with the musical theater program at the middle school and then finally the small adjustments so most departments will have one or two courses that will adjust each year.

So then our courses around alignment within the district, our biggest example of that is social studies so if you remember over the past couple of years we've talked about the changes at the elementary schools to put the standards back into the grade levels particularly at key stage 2, grades 3, 4 and 5. That then subsequently had a change to 6th grade social studies last year which was a focus more on sort of geography and that type of study of social studies and then this year the changes in 7th grade which is a statement of courses at the high school we've had a change in teachers in our theater program and so we reinstated musical theater 1 and 2 and technical theater so what was happening prior to this was those courses were offered outside of the school day and we're in conjunction with the productions so the spring production and the fall production and so this puts it back into the school day allowing wider access for students and it's not tied to the production anymore so it's allowed students to study musical theater without being a member of the cast of the after school production and then we worked on alignment with the musical theater program at the middle school and then finally the small adjustments so most departments will have one or two courses that will adjust each year. I don't bring a lot of those to you because they're not big enough to feel like it's not a good use of your time but the ones that I wanted to highlight are the So with the development of the character with the bringing in the resource of character strong some of that resource is divided in a way that grade levels were sort of overlapping with one another on what they were doing so a child could experience the same lesson multiple times because of decisions that teachers were making so we developed a scope and sequence for it to say that these were the lessons that should go with kindergarten, these are lessons that should go with first grade, et cetera, and that has proven to be helpful to the teachers and I think will be more engaging for the children because there will be new lessons each year.