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Three Village presents curriculum overhaul, expands CTE pathways and pauses reconfiguration changes
Summary
District educational leaders told the board they will run the recent grade reconfiguration through a full cycle before making further changes, unveiled a new internal curriculum repository and proposed expanded CTE pathways (pre-engineering and automotive) and new AP offerings pending college articulation and state approvals.
District leaders presented a broad Educational Services update Wednesday, telling the Three Village Central School District Board of Education they will hold off on further structural changes until the current reconfiguration (moving sixth and ninth grades) has been observed for a full cycle.
"We decided that at this point we are not going to make any changes to our program having moved the sixth grade up to the middle school and the ninth grade up to the high school until we've run a full cycle," Dr. Biscari said during the presentation, which outlined next steps for curriculum, assessments and career‑technical options.
The update centered on a newly developed internal curriculum repository — an intranet-based scope-and-sequence library district staff said will provide consistent curricular documents, unit plans and common assessments for every grade and course. Presenters said the repository will remain an internal resource (assessments and proprietary items excluded) while a public-facing summary of core expectations will be made available to families.
Why it matters: district officials said the repository and aligned benchmarks are intended to make instruction more coherent across schools, reduce variability when staff turnover occurs, and let administrators use assessment data to target supports more quickly.
Presenters also described a tiered support model (MTSS) and diagnostic assessments (i-Ready for math and AIMSweb for literacy) the district will use to identify needs and place students into tiered interventions. Dr. Bernalva noted that AIMSweb national norms were recently re‑normed and percentiles changed, which prompted a closer review of structural gaps in results.
Career and technical education expansion: district staff announced plans to add CTE pathways in 2026–27, including pre‑engineering and an automotive sequence. The pre‑engineering pathway is being aligned with Stony Brook University for possible college credit; administrators said the courses must match college syllabi and state CTE codes before they can be finalized. "It's contingent on college articulation agreements, which we are right there making sure grammar match to what we need," presenters said.
New AP and career options: the district is pursuing new Advanced Placement courses (including the College Board's cybersecurity AP and AP Human Geography) and expanded business offerings such as AP Personal Finance, plus industry-recognized credentials and a planned Bloomberg lab in the Ward Melville High School library to support finance and business curriculum.
Budget and timing caveats: presenters stressed some pathways and credentialing depend on external approvals—state course codes, college articulation and, for some CTE sequences, formal college partnerships. Board members asked about costs and timeline; presenters said they do not foresee articulation issues but that some items are contingent on external signoffs.
What’s next: staff said they will continue gathering feedback from students, teachers and families, run the reconfiguration through a full cycle and return to the board in the fall with any recommended tweaks based on that feedback.
Ending: the board thanked staff for the presentation and said it would monitor the fall cycle before considering policy or structural changes.
