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Board adopts OpenSciEd science and Illustrative Math elementary curricula and updates AP textbooks
Summary
After multi‑year pilots and teacher consensus meetings, trustees unanimously approved OpenSciEd for high school science, updated AP texts for psychology and statistics, and adopted Illustrative Mathematics for K–5, with district PD and demo access promised to teachers and families.
The Newport‑Mesa Unified School District board unanimously approved several curriculum adoptions aimed at aligning instruction across grade spans and updating materials.
Secondary science: Staff recommended adoption of the OpenSciEd three‑course, NGSS‑aligned high‑school science curriculum (biology, chemistry, physics with integrated earth and space science) after multi‑year pilots and teacher consensus using evaluation…
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