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Yorktown lays out empathy-driven curriculum, new AI and career pathways for 2026-27
Summary
District instructional leaders framed an empathy-first "ESTEEM" approach and outlined priorities for professional development, AI integration and new high-school courses including AP business, AP personal finance and AP cybersecurity.
Mrs. Ammerling, the district official who opened the meeting, told the board the 2026-27 budget discussions begin with curriculum and instruction and outlined an "ESTEEM" philosophy that places empathy at the center of classroom problem-solving. "The work of this department is the engine that drives the daily classroom experience," she said, adding the district will pursue four instructional pillars: empathy, creativity and innovation, critical thinking and ambition.
Those pillars will be enacted through an eight-area "whole-child" model that…
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