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Board hears curriculum updates: new elementary ELA programs and IB course companion
Summary
District leaders presented proposed elementary English language arts programs (Functional Phonics and Morphology; Arts and Letters) and an IB global politics course companion; materials will be available for community review over the summer and return to the board for final approval in August.
Minnetonka School District staff updated the board June 26 on two proposed elementary English language arts programs and an International Baccalaureate course resource for high school.
Dr. Steve Urbanski, director of instruction, and Alyssa Rutherford, literacy coordinator, said the district completed a multi‑year pilot and recommends adopting two elementary programs: Functional Phonics and Morphology to address decoding skills, and Arts and Letters to target…
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