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District touts student competition results and proposes course-name and credit changes
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Summary
Administrators highlighted student achievements — including a middle-school team’s 15th-place finish in a regional pitch competition — and reviewed proposed course-name changes, a new Honors English 11 option and adjustments to elective credits for better scheduling.
District presenters used the meeting to highlight student successes and to review proposed curriculum adjustments for the coming year.
A staff presenter (S5) said a middle-school team that advanced from the Dreamland pitch competition placed 15th out of about 250 teams at Bloomsburg University’s Husky Dog Pound event, the highest finish the district has recorded at that competition. "They placed fifteenth out of the 250," the presenter said.
Administrators (S4) reviewed proposed course changes intended to improve clarity and scheduling. Two courses will be renamed so students better understand offerings: Band Techniques will be called Introduction to Band, and Advanced Prototyping and Design will be called Carpentry. The district also proposed an Honors English 11 option for students seeking a higher-level English pathway and recommended moving some year-long electives into semester-length offerings to ease scheduling constraints.
Staff also described shifts in art staffing that prompted the relocation of photojournalism out of the English department into a course structure aligned with art-program staffing; yearbook production will continue under the adjusted course sequencing.
Student activities highlighted included FBLA (43 students attending the state conference in Hershey) and TSA (eight students qualified for state competition); music program participation and upcoming concerts were also noted.
What comes next: the district will monitor course requests and section sizes; S4 said the district will confirm which new or renamed courses make the schedule based on final enrollment numbers.
