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SFUSD outlines 'middle school redesign' pilot, A-G-style framework and New Tech Network partnerships

San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education · August 22, 2017
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Summary

District staff presented a three-phase middle-school redesign plan aimed at universal access to arts, language and computer science: a develop phase for rubrics and prototype master schedules, a decision phase for November-December, and a deliver phase in spring. Early adopters include Willie Brown, Martin Luther King and Visitacion Valley Middle School with New Tech Network and Salesforce support.

SFUSD staff updated the Board of Education on a multi-year middle-school redesign initiative intended to give all middle-school students universal access to integrated electives such as arts, language, health and computer science. The plan is structured in three phases this school year: develop, decision and deliver.

Brent Stevens and colleagues said the "develop" phase will define a design-principle rubric, an A-through-G style list of universal learning experiences for middle school, and prototype master schedules…

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