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Snowline trustees hear plans to integrate ethnic studies across high-school courses
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Serrano High School and SnowlineAcademy teachers told the board they are integrating one semester of ethnic studies into existing history and social-science courses to meet state requirements and improve student engagement.
Serrano High School and a Snowline Academy teacher presented an implementation plan for ethnic studies Tuesday, telling the Snowline Joint Unified School District board that the district intends to weave the subject into multiple high-school courses rather than deliver it in a single new class.
The presentations, led by Joshua Sullivan, SerranoHigh School department chair for history/social science, and Ryan Huckabah from NTS, described plans to embed ethnic-studies content and assessments into world history, U.S. history, economics and government, and to use professional learning communities to coordinate lessons and pacing across teachers.
The presenters framed the work as meeting AB 101 (state law requiring ethnic-studies instruction at…
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