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Urbandale advances high-school curriculum reviews; board hears proposals for electives, visual arts and world languages; state waiver proposed for PE
Summary
Board received recommendations for 9–12 electives in social studies and science, visual-arts materials for K–12, and world-language materials. Administrators also requested permission to apply for a Department of Education flexible student-support waiver to change the high-school physical-education requirement from each semester to one semester.
The Urbandale Community School District presented a set of curriculum reviews and a request to apply for a Department of Education flexibility waiver that would change the high-school physical-education requirement.
Curriculum facilitators Candy Bridal (social studies/ELA) and Janine Heltzer (science/math) summarized a year-long review of 9–12 electives. Recommendations included adopting or continuing publisher materials for AP courses (AP Human Geography, AP European History, AP U.S. History, AP Psychology, AP Government) and a new course, Street Law (McGraw Hill). For AP biology and human anatomy and physiology, the district recommended Visible Body (Cengage) resources and…
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