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Committee reviews seven-year curriculum-cycle plan and reconfiguration timeline
Summary
Staff presented a multi-year curriculum review cycle that staggers content-area reviews and ties timing to the district's planned reconfiguration (moving fifth grade back to elementary and establishing grades 6–8 as middle school).
District curriculum leaders presented a seven-year curriculum-review cycle and how it will be sequenced in the wake of a planned reconfiguration of school grade structures.
Kelly Downs and Erin Faust walked the committee through a multi-phase cycle—evaluate, develop/design, implement and assess/refine—designed to ensure consistent review of curriculum resources across content areas. Staff described two pathway options after evaluation: a resource review (selecting new instructional resources) or updates within existing materials.
Staff emphasized that implementation spans multiple years (they described a three-year implementation phase) to allow teachers time to learn and strengthen practice. The committee saw maps showing phases for subject areas across school years; staff said some subjects (for example, human growth and development and CTE) will remain on off-cycle reviews because of external partner timelines or state requirements.
Administrators said the phased approach intends to avoid asking teachers to adopt major new curricula in consecutive years. The district’s reconfiguration—returning fifth grade to elementary schools and making grades 6–8 a dedicated middle school—will shift timing for some reviews and staff said they will finalize a continuing seven-year cadence after reconfiguration and when schools settle into their new structures.
Committee members asked for clarification about overlapping intervention reviews in different years; staff explained that some areas may appear in two adjacent years because work is being expedited to ensure resources are ready for implementation.
Staff said the committee should expect annual updates that highlight completed work and recommended changes; the committee agreed to review the cycle each year and to surface changes to the full board as needed.
