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Board adds, then approves, plan to expand middle school electives, offer 8th-grade world language credit
Summary
The board approved a plan to restructure middle-school electives to semester-length courses, add new electives, standardize offerings across middle schools and allow eighth graders to earn high-school world language credit where appropriate.
The Chippewa Valley Schools board approved a district plan on March 3 to restructure middle-school exploratory and elective programming, moving from short rotations to semester-length (20-week) courses and adding new, higher-interest options. The change was added to the agenda by motion and approved during the meeting.
The plan—developed with more than 60 volunteer teachers, building administrators and central-office curriculum staff—creates seven new course options and revises three existing courses so students have more choice and deeper, longer-term instruction in middle school. District leaders said the…
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