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Thompson School District board reviews CIC course proposals, flags ‘Controversies in History’ for more detail
Summary
Administrators presented a slate of teacher-submitted course proposals vetted by the Curriculum Improvement Council (CIC); board members pressed for syllabi and policy alignment for a CU Denver concurrent-enrollment course titled “Controversies in History” and discussed why a proposed ‘unified art’ course was denied.
Tiffany Jones, director of curriculum and learning design, outlined the Curriculum Improvement Council’s process for vetting teacher-submitted course proposals and said the committee is recommending several new or retitled courses for board consideration at the Dec. 17 meeting. “Our role is really to ensure that the process is followed,” Jones said, describing CIC’s checks for principal support, standards alignment and program sustainability.
Among the items the CIC recommended is a retitled science course — Earth and Physical Science Lab — to make clear the course carries a lab credit required for graduation. Jones said the change, prompted by confusion with an older name (“Geofizz”), will help families know the course satisfies lab-credit requirements.
Board members focused most attention on two items that prompted debate at the CIC level. First, a proposal labeled “unified art” was…
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