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Board approves USU ITLS 2500 course and moves to pilot CAPS programs with Bridgerland partnership
Summary
The board approved a Utah State University concurrent-enrollment course (USU ITLS 2500) to support a pilot Centers for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) consortium program; Cache County has fronted space and director costs and the district plans a two-program pilot for seniors.
The Box Elder School District Board on Tuesday approved a new concurrent-enrollment course, referred to in materials as USU ITLS 2500 (technology-enabled instruction through Utah State), as a first step toward piloting Centers for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) offerings for district students.
District presenter Ben Wiley told the board the CAPS model shifts learning from a “sit-and-get” classroom to lab- and workplace-style projects developed in partnership with local industry and housed in shared facilities. For the pilot year 2025–26 the consortium expects to pilot two CAPS tracks: business and marketing, and an aspiring-educators (introduction to education) track. For the education track,…
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