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Veteran teacher tells board 'Beyond Textbooks' is a framework, not curriculum
3206840 · May 7, 2025
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A 28-year educator urged the board to stop funding a program called Beyond Textbooks, calling it a "framework" rather than a curriculum and saying the district has spent more than $400,000 since 2015 on training and materials that she described as ineffective.
During the call to public, Jeanette Schottie, who identified herself as a 28-year veteran educator, urged the governing board to review the district’s investment in a resource she called "Beyond Textbooks."
Schottie said the program is "neither embedded nor research based curriculum" and described it as "a loosely…
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