Board hears curriculum committee on German exchange, School Links rollout and mastery-transcript pilot with AI safeguards
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Summary
The curriculum committee sought board approval for a student exchange to Freiberg, Germany (estimated $2,200 per student), described adoption of School Links to replace Naviance, and outlined a pilot of the Mastery Transcript Consortium with explicit data-security review and AI-literacy supports.
Curriculum updates at the Dec. 9 meeting covered an international-student exchange, a new student guidance platform and an early pilot of a competency-based transcript, with several board members raising student-data-security and AI concerns.
Speaker 5 summarized a German exchange presentation by Martin Glasser and Laura Scott. The trip is planned for roughly June 25—July 5/6, costs are estimated at about $2,200 per student and typical group size is 14—20. The committee sought board approval to proceed; both chaperone arrangements and host-family logistics were described.
The committee also described School Links, a guidance-and-counseling platform adopted after a one-year pilot to replace Naviance. School Links supports career exploration, college planning, a portfolio of student artifacts that follows students through grade 12, and single sign-on via Google. Speakers said the platform increases usability and classroom time by reducing login friction.
On the mastery-transcript pilot, Speaker 5 said the district is piloting the Mastery Transcript Consortium with volunteer juniors to develop a parallel transcript that captures competencies across multiple capacities. Advisors will emphasize AI literacy and social-emotional learning as part of coaching. Speaker 1 said the pilot underwent district data-security review and would require strict controls before any external sharing; access to student artifacts would be mediated by a secure student code.
Board members asked whether colleges or third parties could use uploaded artifacts to profile students. The administration said School Links is not directly accessible to colleges and that any Mastery Transcript access would meet district data and security criteria before activation. The district—s data office and legal-review steps were described as prerequisites to any widening of access.
Next steps: the district will seek board approval for the Germany exchange as an action item in an upcoming meeting, continue School Links rollout, and proceed with the mastery-transcript pilot under controlled data-security measures.