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Parma City updates course registration guides: education professions and new pathways added to high school, middle school elective changed
Summary
District staff presented changes to Parma City’s 2025–26 course registration guides — including a renamed two-year Education Professions course with CCP credit and a new Pathway to Success senior course — and the board approved the guides on Jan. 9.
District staff presented proposed changes to Parma City’s 2025–26 course registration guides to the Board of Education on Jan. 9, and the board approved the high-school and middle-school guides later in the meeting.
Dr. Cruz, who led the presentation, said the high-school guide was reorganized to put graduation requirements first, followed by academic-program descriptions and course descriptions. She described four proposed high-school changes: renaming “Teaching Professions” to “Education Professions,” expanding it to a two-year course beginning in junior year, partnering with Cleveland State to offer College Credit Plus (CCP) for the course and targeting participants for the district’s Grow Your Own Teacher Scholarship; adding a senior-level Pathway to Success course to support transition to employment (resume writing, interview skills and a 12-point industry credential via the Rise Up curriculum); reinstating a previously taught History of Cleveland course; and adding Ceramics II as a follow-up to Ceramics I, with differentiated assignments so students can take both in the same period.
For middle school, Cruz said the district will replace a Project Lead The Way medical-technology elective previously taught in sixth grade with a design-and-modeling elective, based on teacher and student engagement feedback during the trimester course.
Cruz described next steps and family engagement events: information nights for K–8 program previews, a high-school information night on Jan. 27, a kindergarten launch academy virtual session, an evening on CCP/AP/honors, and a Parma Academy of Gifted Enrichment information session on Feb. 6 at Parma Park. She said registration requests will be taken in late January–February and staffing will be finalized in spring 2025.
The board later adopted the high-school course guide (Resolution 2025-01-09), the “Bridal School” (middle school) guide (Resolution 2025-01-10), and the PBLA high-school guide (Resolution 2025-01-11) by roll call; each motion carried as recorded on the Jan. 9 consent agenda.
Ending: The board and presenters framed the changes as incremental adjustments intended to improve readiness and choices for students; family information nights were scheduled to allow parents to review options prior to student selections.
