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Nevada board adopts revised high‑school course guide, adds weekly "Cub Connections" credit and new AP pathway
Summary
The Nevada Community School District Board of Education on Jan. 6 approved a revised high‑school course description guide for 2025–26 that removes unused courses, adds a weekly half‑credit for Cub Connections tied to career planning and shifts the accelerated social‑studies pathway from AP U.S. History to AP European History.
The Nevada Community School District Board of Education on Jan. 6 approved a revised high‑school course description guide for the 2025–26 school year after a presentation from Dr. Einsweiler, the district's secondary administrator.
The changes remove courses the high school has not offered in recent years, add a half‑credit per year for a weekly Cub Connections program tied to career and academic planning (Xello), reorganize several fine‑arts offerings and replace AP U.S. History with AP European History as the district's main accelerated social‑studies option.
Board members said the edits better reflect what the district can staff and what students actually enroll in. Dr. Einsweiler told the board many classes remained in the catalog for years without sufficient enrollment or staffing. "We're probably just being a bit more true to what we're offering as opposed to keeping things in just year after year that we really don't offer and we have no capacity to offer," Dr. Einsweiler said.
The most consequential change is the district's plan to add one half‑credit each year for Cub Connections, a weekly period that will include life‑skills work and expanded career and academic planning using the Xello platform. Dr. Einsweiler said the district wants students to return weekly for Xello and reflections; the credit will be phased in so the district does not reduce students' elective expectations. "We're requiring students to return every week for Cub Connection," Dr. Einsweiler said. The district plans to bring a policy update to the board in June or July; students would begin earning the new credit in the next school year and the change would roll to full effect by the 2028–29 school year.
In social studies, Dr. Einsweiler and staff proposed removing AP U.S. Government and AP U.S. History from the active course list because those classes have not maintained sufficient enrollment. The board heard that AP U.S. History enrollments fell to very low numbers in recent years despite recruitment efforts. The replacement, AP European History, is intended to create a clearer accelerated pathway: students would take U.S. History first, then AP European History as a junior/senior option that better aligns with the district's enrichment strand. Dr. Einsweiler said "10 plus would be a win in the year 1" as an enrollment target for AP European History.
Fine‑arts offerings were reorganized to create clearer entry points. Drawing and Drawing Dual‑Credit students will be grouped together, and ceramics and painting will be structured so Drawing 1/DC and Ceramics 1/2/DC students can be scheduled together with different curricula. The guide also adds a yearbook class and a planned advisor transition so longtime yearbook producer Laurie Stevenson can mentor students and a new advisor through a handoff.
A board member moved approval of the course description guide as presented; a second was made and the board voted in favor.
The district will return to the board with a policy update later this spring or early summer to align graduation requirements to the course‑guide changes and to formalize the credit timeline.
