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Director of curriculum outlines standards-revision cycle, teacher-written curriculum, and AI training plans

Bellevue Board of Education · January 5, 2026
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Summary

Mary Belbo, director of curriculum, instruction and professional learning, briefed the board on the district’s strategic-plan Priority 1 work: a multi-year standards revision cycle, teacher-written curriculum development, professional learning offerings, and proposed new career-technical and library curricula.

Mary Belbo, identified in the meeting as director of curriculum, instruction and professional learning, presented a strategic-plan update focused on curriculum and professional learning and described how the district is responding to the Nebraska Department of Education standards-revision timeline.

Belbo said the state typically revises standards on a 7–8 year cycle, and the district aligns curriculum and professional learning to that timeline. She said teacher committees — sometimes 50–60 participants for a content area such as science — write and revise…

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