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District pauses health-materials adoption to prioritize community input and integrated plan work
Summary
Administration announced it will pause the fall health curriculum adoption and set the needs assessment for the integrated plan for public review and feedback; materials will be posted and a month-long community-survey period will follow before reporting to ODE.
District administrators told the board they have decided to pause the adoption process for health curriculum materials and restart the process in the fall to allow more time for meaningful family engagement.
A district presenter (speaker 11) said the decision follows earlier planning and the recognition that asking families to attend multiple engagement meetings in a short period would be burdensome. “We’ve already kind of started the process with some things. We had ordered some materials to look at. We’re just gonna put pause on all of that, keep the materials, set them aside, and start again in the fall,” the presenter said.
The presenter described a needs assessment compiled from state testing data, school-based assessments, course enrollment, attendance and behavior data, youth-truth surveys, community focus groups, and student interviews. That needs assessment will be posted on the district website, translated where feasible, and open for community feedback via a survey for about one month. The district plans to report to the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) that the needs assessment was presented to the board and that community feedback opportunities were offered.
Board members asked for access to guidance materials; administration said the guidance manual is available as a downloadable PDF and will be distributed. The presenter said the integrated-plan work is interwoven with the strategic-plan goals and that identified priorities will focus on instructional excellence, targeted support for English learners, family and community engagement, and student-centered systems such as tutoring, multi-tiered supports, and mental-health services.
Next steps: post needs assessment and materials, translate content as possible, open a survey for community comment for roughly one month, then report back to ODE and the board.
