001good evening everyone and welcome to uh instructional policy meeting uh this first day of May 2023. um first thing on the agenda is the minutes any questions or comments on the minutes no going once going twice nothing all right we'll move to a next item business affairs yes good afternoon everyone thank you Mr Alexander so we have two items that you're going to see on the business Affairs agenda that I just want to bring your attention to and one of them is total education Solutions where we are going to be looking at a payment for special education students to include some of the special education services that this is an organization that we have used in the past and we are looking for the contract for next year and um so that item is on
002the agenda it's the general fund and then we also have another agenda item for early childhood education and again it's a service agreement with the science bubbles activities for the Early Learning Program at our various ELP sites and so that cost is on there as well but that will come out of the early childhood education fund so I just wanted to bring your attention to those two items okay any questions no questions no comments all right we'll move to the next agenda item College and Career Academies okay thank you so um actually we're gonna if that's okay um The College and Career Academy are the updates I'll go through the updates really quickly and then do our presentations last if that's okay so if we want to move to updates 3.01 as usual you could
003see we have updates from the College and Career Academy I will just try to click on them really quickly to so that everyone can see [Music] the update as always we don't read the update to you but you can see there's some experiences from elementary school at uh with the Akron Art Museum and so some of our fourth grade Scholars and the experiences they've had there uh culinary pathway from bookto and Garfield and that is in collaboration with the zoo culinary challenge and then a leadership conference from BP for our Scholars that are part of BPA and again look at them in their suits I'm over at bookdale so make sure that you take a chance to read that and more about book though again some seniors right here from cosmetology and they did their
004program within the last few weeks so hopefully some people have experienced that so again that's where the College and Career Academy so you'll be able to read that update we have an FRC update and I'm not going to get into detail with that because one of our presentations today is about FRC it's about the Family Resource Centers but as always just give you an update on things that they have been doing and of course we have for an existence already and just what has been happening lately in there we always give you the engagement activities that have been taking place in our four frcs Family Resource Centers State we have a stay in the game update and so it's time for our partnership renewal with the Cleveland Browns foundation and so we will be moving
005forward with that and then we also have this special activity coming up where they call it the OTA sessions that are happening at the Cleveland Browns over in Berea I believe they are asking our extended an opportunity for 40 of our students to come over and to the private session and witness OTAs this this may in a couple weeks so that how are they going to decide what 40 students attend you want to talk about that okay thanks Jim for Dr Lash great question as we were thinking about May the month of May and typically seeing declines in attendance we thought we would pair it with attendance and and Target it to our high schools looking at you know what could high schoolers kind of become excited around so we have affectionately come up with
006this every day in May kind of slogan encouraging our high schoolers to be present at school every day in May for an opportunity to be entered into a drawing to attend this practice so yeah this is so when they go there what are some of the things they're going to be learning once they're there with the group I'm sorry yes Mr Alexander it's um probably more fun um than uh learning but definitely um the experience to be there watch the Players probably learn how much smaller they really are when you see them in person and to um kind of inter interact with other students I've been actually once before last May I believe but to interact with other students from other districts and have the opportunity hopefully to meet a player so some of the
007other kids from other school districts there yes well that'll be nice for them so it's more kind of a reward for some of our kids who are having good attendance absolutely that's how we are using it um you know oftentimes you know stay in the game it's all around attendance but oftentimes the Browns will when they have those opportunities they allow us to be able to determine how we select students so that you're you know you kind of vary it a little bit but um needing something to encourage our students for the month of May and especially our high schoolers we thought it'd be great to tag it along with attendance I think that's good good okay thank you and then we have one more update for you which is from teaching and learning and
008I will just pull it up briefly so that you can see I'm pretty sure it's the newsletter from teaching and learning where you can hear the scoop in terms of what's Happening from all of the Departments and we do have um and this one is the newsletter he sent out but we do have a presentation from Adam Mater here today as well about the social studies adoption so you'll hear more about that but again you can read all about what's happening in the teaching and learning department and we also have the executive director of teaching and learning here with us today Nicole Vitale as well okay for the month of May the calendar in the teaching and learning area is included in there so turn on your mic all right so at this time I'm
009going to turn it over to I'm going to start with the Family Resource Center so at this time I'm going to pull up the presentation for Dr Lash all right thank you um so really quickly we just thought we would um just talk about a Family Resource Centers and give an update as to what we are are thinking um and so always want to refer back to our vision of Excellence through equity and particularly as it relates to Family Resource Centers and understanding that this is one of the ways that we attempt and work through eliminating inequities for our students and and their families by the opportunities and the resources that are available through the Family Resource Centers interestingly just to kind of Center us and remind us this work actually the the foundation for
010it really came about with the creation of the Community Learning Centers and so now having a school as a community Hub we have the opportunity for the next level of work and that is being able to address some of our non-academic barriers to Student Success and by way of the Family Resource Centers so our partnership with United Way of Summit County and Medina County has been very critical in that process for us to be able to offer those wraparound services um and I'm sure everyone is familiar with United Way's bold goals that have now been extended out to 2028 and our partnership with United Way allows us to again strengthen the support that we're able to provide to our families and through our Resource Centers we are able to advance United Way's bold goals and
011so as we think about Family Resource Centers it's important to note that there are four core areas and they are basic needs Financial Empowerment community health and wellness and family development so the programming that happens by way of Our Family Resource Centers really focuses on these four core areas and it's a place where our families feel welcomed and they're able to be connected to referrals or different resources in the community to meet their specific need and just to recap Dr caver mentioned this we have our four existing Family Resource Community or I'm sorry Family Resource Centers right now at Helen Arnold Mickey bright North High School and Robinson and again those four core areas you see mentioned there and just to highlight you saw this on on the policy update as well some of the
012things events and activities programs that are have happened in those areas that we've been able to carry out this this year thank you and as we think about our next site for Family Resource Centers when this work began and and I do honor the work uh that happened before with Dr Carla Chapman and under the the leadership now of stancy Sykes so all of the work and planning that had happened before the vision was that a Family Resource Center would be present in each of our our clusters and so with the four clusters that we have in existence right now looking at our fifth cluster we've looked at and identified higher Community Learning Center and so interestingly we have one at a high school and three at elementary schools this would be our first location
013as we look at space and availability this would be our first location at a middle school and I must say Mr Larry Bender the current principal is so very excited to host this in his building and to hear him passionately talk about the needs that he sees um among his school community and and what a great resource this will be for the students in in that cluster and really that's it to the update on Family Resource Centers and our thinking around the excitement for our next location any questions comments okay all right thank you so I just want to mention that there will be an agenda item coming up in May for the next FRC we will need board approval in order to proceed United Way is our partner and the way that it works
014is that we do the startup costs and then United Way actually sustained the program for us moving on so it is just a one-time cost for us in order to start it and that is to get the to basically purchase the equipment to go in the room when I say equipment like the tables and chairs appropriate for FRC that type of thing the cubicles that go inside of it amongst other things that are appropriate for this space so that you can have Consulting with the family members when they're coming in and things like that so we outfit the room basically at the beginning and then hire the person United Way hires the person that will actually be the employee of the FRC and so we just do the one-time costs at the beginning and then
015they the United Way they carry out the FRC for you know the life of the time that we have it afterwards so you will see that coming up and if we have no questions then we're going to shift our gears a little bit to talk about academics and we have Adam Mater here our learning Specialists from social studies to present to us so I'm going to pull up his presentation you heard from Adam some months ago those of you that was on IP before it's an instructional policy to talk about the process of the social studies adoption and now we're coming to the end of that process and getting ready in the very new future to go through the board adoption and approval and so he wanted to come and share with you here today
016so Mr Mater is that on thanks Dr kaver um first of all I do owe this uh this team an apology I'm kind of a late addition to the meeting I apologize uh because you meet once a month it was imperative that we get in front of you today um Dr caver and Miss satley will continue to refine as this as this documentation comes to board but in this instructional policy like Dr caver said the process is down to the wire the the the totals are in the picks are in and it's time to update this board this instructional policy team on where we're at with the social studies adoption and what we want to do is actually backtrack a little bit first if Dr caver if you could click on the guiding document before
017the adoption started and I know I'm burning your eyes because I know this is kind of small however um it was critical that in social studies we actually um that we actually uh um aligned our work to board policy around culturally responsive curriculum and this work has been ongoing now for over two years and each part of the board policy was actually addressed through Frameworks recognized as the best research-based best practices in social studies education around culturally responsive curriculum and instruction so our team is very proud of this work and this became the backdrop for what you're about to see next so we are going to click on one more link before we get started and I'm going to burn your eyes one more time and Dr caver if you could click on that sample
018evaluation this is the evaluation instrument that our teams use this you're looking at the secondary one here I want to Mr Alexander is the secondary one if you could there should be a tab uh yeah where it says rubric at the tab yeah um you can just click on yeah there you go um Dr caver is going to scroll down a little bit that's where we're going to burn your eyes a little bit but she's going to start scrolling down to about halfway through and just kind of stop wherever she wants and you're going to start to see how we have red threaded culturally responsive practices that deal with Equity diversity and inclusion throughout this uh this assessment instrument this is the most demanding precise and substantive adoption evaluation around culturally responsive curriculum and instruction
019in the social studies Department I believe in the history of our department and all of our goals for our district are are red threaded throughout this evaluation instrument the evaluation instrument took about 11 to 12 hours on average for our teachers the teachers in this last school year had lots and lots of challenges and they are the real heroes in this process as they stepped up and evaluated what we deemed to be priorities along with all the other social studies education priorities and and really fine-tuned and focused what we want our next Generation to have as curriculum in our social studies courses so I know we kind of burned your eyes there a little bit but with the scrolling but you did get to see hopefully you got to see plenty of examples of how
020Dei and our Equity policies in Akron public schools are red threaded in that evaluation so the these other two links we're going to come back to in a minute we're going to look at a few slides first and I can just click and go um do we just think copies of these documents and we'll make sure that you give them okay thank you sorry about that Kyle um I did I did want to share with you um and again and we're backtracking a little bit but um the goal of social studies is always for students to understand and practice Civic rights and responsibilities but to become an active citizen they need to be able to critically think about issues in our world today they need to be able to examine multiple perspectives and vet those
021perspectives for accuracy come to their own conclusions and engage in civil discourse and that's not just the made up goal of social studies that's the goal of social studies through the Ohio Department of Education to the National Council for the social studies and our North Star in social studies that's what we really want students to connect with so the priorities in this adoption as you can see the Dei SEL work inquiry learning teaching through multiple perspectives one of our one of our um Consultants that helped us support board policy Dr legarrett King he says that you know it's not history it's histories and you're looking through multiple perspectives to get a better understanding and then of course the idea of teaching controversial and unsettled issues and working with our students in safe places where they
022have voice and agency around connecting their world uh and and engaging in civil discourse and understanding it those are the goals that our adoption teams and our steering team knew that those were the priorities in this adoption some of the issues that are going on today in today's society you know there's a lot of things that are going on how does it intertwine and relate to that so the kids can get what's going on now as well as in the history in past and also um as far as history all histories since he said histories that all histories get entwined in there made in all the history so how does that work a little bit so a couple questions from Mr Alexander the first ones first um with the Jalen Walker shooting for example our
023social studies staff got guidance and we have been working on this for some time but they got guidance on how to in our social studies department on first making sure that our students are safe that they have a voice that they're not being judged and um as we work through those protocols we also have protocols that support having courageous conversations around difficult issues such as race and making sure we uh this the teacher supports a classroom where there are clear agreements and understandings the protect and value everybody so so that's up front one of our new one of our newer models that we are supporting and we we looked for curriculum that supported this model around teaching controversial issues the leading expert in the country today on teaching controversial issues her name is Dr Judith
024bass and she has a framework for teaching controversial issues she likes to say first and foremost a social studies teacher must Do no harm must always be intentional around the types of conversation students are having and she has lots of strategies that go with that so we were looking for curriculum that engaged in that had those strategies that supported that another one of hers is um you know the first thing a teacher does when they do that is they have to examine their own perspective they know their kids best they know their Community best and they know their themselves best so I have to be honest and examine my own point of view and my own understanding and then as I engage students in uncovering and thinking for themselves about this issue I need to
025understand where they're where they're coming from where our community is coming from and and make sure I Do no harm for any student so that was kind of like the backdrop of what we've done insured across the district with our social studies staff to encourage that in the wake of the Jalen Walker shootings but that's also baked into our curriculum and we're at the beginning of our journey not the end of our journey we got a lot of work to do and that's on me that's that's I have to step up and make sure that our teachers are able to have courageous conversations with their students and give them agency and voice because that's that's what social studies really about as far as and as far as our it's entwined and as far as all
026the histories you know not just his story his stories how does that entwined in there thanks Mr Alexander yeah so that's another important thing that we look for another important criteria that we look for in this adoption was how does the curriculum treat multiple perspectives not just the traditional perspective you know where the winners it's the Winner's perspective but everyone's perspectives you know when you look in U.S history it you can go all the way back to all the way back to pre-colonial times right all the way back to even the 1619 project you can go back to Colonial times but you can also see it in the 20th century and the 21st century and you can see the multiple perspectives of not just one group or who made the law but who who rallied
027against the law who rallied who didn't win the fight what was their perspective and uh the historical narratives gotten so much stronger and CR and textbook companies have gotten more Savvy in ensuring that multiple perspectives are found as students uncover the past and that was one of our key criteria is we wanted to pick um we wanted to pick curriculum that showcased all the different perspectives uh you know and that's always been in social studies but but it's come to the Forefront now as it should and moving forward that's how we're going to want ours our kids to teach their kids and because I asked that question I'm talking to you about you know uh African-American history so every because all kids now are learning about African-American history in their homes you know whether they're
028black kids white they're Hispanic or they're learning about in their homes so I want to make sure that our kids all our kids learn about that as well yeah that's been a that's been a key component um very excited about the curriculum that we picked um I believe it's hmh for our African-American history class um and as well as uh I I think I updated this group but I don't think it was both of you but I you may remember this that um we are going to Pilot the AP African-American history course African-American studies course next year at Firestone and at bookdoll so we're pretty excited about that thank you Mr Mater I think you were very clear and I was tracking right with you I like when you talked about the critical thinking and
029Analysis um that you're looking for Learners to be able to do because ultimately in our schools the goal is to educate our students in a way historically that they can then become contributing citizens and so part of that is like you said giving the lens from various perspectives and um it just baffles me when we have these talks if I if I just must be honest because I had wonderful history teachers I really did Mr minor was one of them but I felt very um equipped and every when we get into these discussions about the stories and the perspectives that are being told I can't help when I because as some of you may know I'm a history I'm a licensed history teacher a middle to high school that's what I do and um my
030undergraduate's history my Master's was history education and when we look at our standards and what they've been for so long it's laid out to tell the story but it's how it's with history is like a dance and how we articulate the story so um you know I know people think this information is not present but it's been present and required to be taught from various perspectives but it's that the accountability of how it's being taught if it's being taught um I wrote down that um bias is always present and that's okay we have to unpack that and then see the role that it played in our decision making and and in the framework of our society and our laws and why citizenship is important and so I'm excited when I hear about the adoption of
031new curriculum and the goals that are set if I can just be this has always been the goal it's really if you're in education you know this is not new it's just so much buzz and agitation has come because somehow we have dropped the ball in accountability so you have students going through classrooms and U.S history it's like can you accurately teach you as history without the transatlantic slave trade can you not really talk about how these became institutions in capitalism can you have to go on the journey if you're going to do it properly and to equip our students than to be contributing citizens so I think the most important thing that I love that you said about what we're doing is that we want our students to be critical thinkers again and to
032properly analyze because in this digital spoon fed Society they hear buzzwords and now everyone's on the front line and agitating and petition but for what are you going to vote tomorrow do you know the people that are in the positions and do you know the roles that laws play that then Trinkle down so I I really hope this is getting to a point to whereas you know it's not about the divisiveness but it's about the Enlightenment and when students are connected with the learning all students and see the value in the learning of all histories and why is relevant as an American citizen because I think that's what we get away from as a as a person in America as an American citizen why it's important that you know all histories so that we cannot
033repeat certain things as far as voter suppression you know monopolizing of industry it's so many things that I think our kids are not getting because they're not critically thinking they're not delineating between perspectives and ideas and that's a teacher thing and I don't know how we can adopt this curriculum and we can use these nice words but the work is I because I know who you are of Mr Mater so and I know you're the real deal phenomenal teacher but it's just that has to be duplicated in the classroom if you really want to see the change because we can get we've always for a good point it's been some rich curriculum like it's Rich good curriculum essential questions you know far before it even became a requirement delving deeper into the content so I'm
034going to get off my soapbox but uh it's just this is such a thing for me because it's such a disconnect historically when you can March but you don't vote foreign you protest but your first active business when you turn 18 wasn't to register so that you can make sure tomorrow you were voting or that you know that you know who is this and that so I'm excited I hope they do the work I'm not trying to be [Laughter] no you and and Dr caver now for being so nice to me thanks a lot I owe you both and we well deserved um all right well let's let's try to uh we'll Circle back to some questions I'm sorry one more question I did have a question after my thing um so with this with
035this adoption of this curriculum um how soon after the adoption are we anticipating the implementation and then what does teacher training look like for that um so uh we'll adopt after two more board meetings I think and that'll be sometime at the end of the month or yeah um and um the teachers will start their training over the summer and the teachers get a four-hour orientation into a new Adoption it's part of our contract and our practice however the the most important training is just like you said the the four-hour training teachers will review our priorities our goals and how to look at our Curriculum maps but then they'll get into the actual digital adoption how to how do I get my kids on how do I make a test how do I what are
036the features that I wanted to that support intervention that support differentiation all those things but the the real the real dig is over that course of that first year as we collaborate with teachers as they collaborate with each other and develop the types of lessons and develop the types of you know essential questions and inquiry that we that really Force like you said students thinking for themselves that's really where the magic happens in my opinion in our in our adoptions it's we get in and then teachers dig in into how to collaborate and share a high quality teaching and learning um and that that's just the first year right uh and and in addition we have some wrap around support so uh and that go back to the to the uh to the to the
037board policy around culturally responsive curriculum instruction we're adding two new courses next year one is the AP the aforementioned AP African-American studies pilot at Firestone and booked all we're also piloting a course at Akron early college that is modern civics how do I how do I engage in my community in meaningful ways while understanding sort of the geography the history the the economics of my community uh well well we're gonna start it and then we're going to make sure we understand it and then we're gonna we're gonna expand it um but so so that I think that yeah you're absolutely right it's not just the book for sure the digital textbook Okay click the wrong button so I I'm going to kind of sneak through uh um and then maybe we can take some questions
038down the road this slide just so you know after the after the teacher teams made their decisions they they had to perform they had to communicate out to the steering team and when they did that the steering team for each grade band stopped them and said okay we have questions we want to know about this uh if they were happy they would recommend the steering team would recommend the teacher teams recommendations um or they would stop and pause and say hey we got to stop and wait as it turned out we did get through all our recommendations from the steering team and we'll you'll get to see that team in a minute um oops I'm clicking way too fast sorry about that uh when the steering team did make their decision you know they were
039looking at um you know how okay so how did it score in an evaluation what are the key features that address our goals and our priorities uh what are some of the most important elements of the first choice that were different from the second choice that's what the steering team was making sure that our teacher teams were able to address uh just real quickly as as you look through the articulation the scope and sequence K-12 we started at grade three and grade three is a transition year they are starting to get into disciplinary learning and it's typically self-contained that that third grade is a self-contained classroom uh in in Akron public schools we have some departmentalization for social studies and science at grades four and five so it looks a little different and the curriculum
040needs are a little different at grades four and five than three uh uh for each band just a quick slide and I think you're going to see this in a different format in front of the real board but for this instructional policy I just wanted you to see that the teams really picked out why the First Choice was there was different needs addressed in the first choice so for example in third grade their needs were around some flexibility for the kids that the the second best sabbaths didn't have whereas in grades four and five it was just the opposite in grades four and five Savas was able to both work in a self-contained setting as well as a departmentalized setting better than TCI was and and had different supports the TCI you know couldn't match
041particularly grade Four's Ohio history so it's somewhat of a unicorn finding the best at grade four is always difficult so in terms of and I know I'm kind of going fast but in terms of what they decided here you see grades the middle schools is you know Eastern Hemisphere and then we start our historical courses of early world history and then early U.S history and grade eight but again just to give you a general idea of when the when the teachers came together they worked through the steering committee hey this is why McGraw-Hill is best for grades six seven and eight these are the types of supports we found that meet our um our priorities our four priorities of d-e-i-s-e-l inquiry teaching controversial issues and teaching multiple perspectives along with everything else that we need
042we need the interventions we need enrichment we need we need ease of use we need we need a lot of things but at the steering team got to see it each step hey this is why this is best and then the steering team got to vote on it here you see grades 9 through 11 these are courses every High School teacher every high school student takes in Akron public schools modern world modern US and American government and again they they picked the best possible choice and in this case it was savvis which is formerly Pearson because of frankly savvis their High School curriculum is I it's amazing they have um just incredible resources for the teachers to unpack um and to Miss Jackson's point it's going to be it's going to take that Master teacher
043to make sure that uh students are critically thinking engaged in the curriculum that Sabbath has and that offers and is aligned however we have a bright future with Savas at those High School classes by the way the steering team did have to also go through the electives we call them Singletons you know the smaller courses one by one and we had teachers uh communicate out to the steering team why they picked what they did and I know I'm kind of going fast but for example you get to see hey these were the key points our recommendation is we this was a strong recommendation that for economics we picked savvis and for the next one it was uh Tammy and I picking for sociology and psychology and each of the reviewers then went through looked for
044our priorities but also was looking to making sure that our greater course of study that was aligned to our graded course of study and met our students needs Miss Jackson here's the African-American studies book and the hmh Edition was absolutely fantastic it even included uh BLM in it which we were excited about um it really did a great job they I think interested to see that one if it includes backlight like Does it include everything the biases the issues with like all of that because I want what I'm talking for perspective I mean full perspective the agendas but you know if we're going to get into kind of those hard topics and we're going to put something like black lives matters in a textbook and I'm talking about critical thinking and Analysis so that they
045informed in a real way and not just oh because I'm Black and I'm supporting black lives matter but really what is the root what is what is the core values of such an organization and does it align with like to have full perspective because it may it may align what you believe but it but if you were talking about deeper level thinking an analysis they need all that if you're going to put that in there then put the both lenses not just like uh absolutely you know so I'm wondering I'm just curious when we have something like that we'll have the books down here for you and so well you know we'll have to look at them together and find out it was interesting though that hmh did offer those modern connections where the other
046publishers hmm they didn't they didn't want to they didn't want to go in down that road yeah um yeah okay did they put it in here though right I will tell you too there were there were we only uh we only recommended the steering team uh digital text and you know digital programs that were absolutely strong recommendations that met our needs we did have two that we're gonna have to come back to a year from now they're they're not a lot of students AP government and AP Euro they're both at Firestone but they they didn't they didn't meet the they didn't meet the criteria so we laid off for a year there we actually had to do that there were there were two courses where the options were limited and they weren't great and as
047stewards of the public trust we we weren't ready to do it which is you know I guess that's good um but anyway um so I'm wondering Dr caver the best way to go back to start oh thank you thank you um so so you got a chance in this instructional policy to sort of see the process that the steering team went through the steering team uh does wish to recommend the uh choices that the teacher teams made there are a couple more documents just to quickly look at I think on slide oops I can do slide two maybe or yeah and then sample document to the board I want to just give you the instructional policy team a chance and again we'll have this cleaned up [Music] but you can see those recommendations of the
048Publishers below and hopefully you get a chance to see all the amazing teachers that helped out and again this was the hardest adoption we've ever had these teachers absolutely went above and beyond they they gave hours and hours of their time they did a fantastic job and you'll get to see the steering team as well so the teachers come from all over the district all the Clusters the social studies steering team was really interesting we actually had two students on the team we invited two students and it was it was enlightening it was it was wonderful I'm so glad we did it at the bottom you know it there is that documentation you will see a document like this that the steering team is in the uh superintendent be recommending those these new resources for
049our students our teachers and students for next year there is one final document to look at and that is a price tag just so you guys get a feel for the price I saved the the hard one for the last one the cost proposal is going to come in somewhere around I believe it's um I want to say I'm waiting for it to load I don't want to say the number wrong and Dr cave you're going to have to you're on the right tab but you are going to have to maybe scroll to the right a little bit these were all the titles isbns everything's ready to go um yeah and you just need to oh yeah there it is and there's our grand total price tag 2.4 two million four hundred thousand this is
050in line with our previous adoption I do think it's slightly less than which is typical as well it also includes the um the Mikvah piece which is part of the College and Career Readiness but that's part of the curriculum so now that we're not just isolating those strategies we've brought it together so that the standards that are in the alignment actually line up with the College and Career Readiness strategy as well so that's all in this it's not a separate purchase from a separate Department they've been working together which is great work but just know that that's not just the regular adoption it does include that College and Career Readiness piece and all digital access pieces 10 percent this is an adoption for seven years um but it also includes the digital component not just
051the digital version of the text but the digital components that go along with the series so like there's a lot of online systems and interactive resources for kids yeah because it's important to know that sometimes that is an up charge and it's not a separate and that's so that's very good to purchase um no because sometimes you'll get the curriculum and then you'll have to pay for the subscription so that's good too and it also includes all professional development right the professional developments built in Mr Alexander uh we it's a digital it's a digital license for every student and teacher and in addition we're getting essentially what is ends up being 10 of hard copy textbooks for emergency situations which we did at the last adoption as well the example I like to give is
052you have a student in the hospital and they can't locate their Chromebook or something like that we we have a number of students who their life circumstances is very very difficult and the teacher can say hey I got a hard copy here uh and and so we it they do come in handy for that reason uh it's a it is about when we talk about building Equity we want to make sure we take care of everybody so there is that small um uh quantity of hard copy but it's it's It's All Digital these days it's all digital so I want to thank you for your time I took too much of your time um I almost I owe Miss Jackson for being nice to me I owe Dr caver for let me slide in here
053um everybody you're so wonderful thank you for taking the time to care about this and listen and and thank you for the questions thank you because this was this was good yeah I mean I love listening sometimes Miss Jackson because she brings that perspective sometimes I don't think about talking about in the classroom and all those things so it's it's good to hear that but I'm glad that we're we are doing this for all our kids so our kids can get low understand and when it comes to Civic engagement later on in life it'll be very important for them I'm Sorry Miss cables go ahead no not totally listening to everything that you said in an agreement so um thank you so much for joining us today and as you said like the insightful discussion
054and questions and things like that and so we are looking forward to moving this process along and going through the steps there was one question I believe that Ms Jackson asked about training and Mr Mater did give a description of like the four-hour training that will be offered I did want to make sure that I also specify that obviously when we offer training in the summer then it will we will definitely be working on a calendar of when the training will be offered but we can't guarantee that everybody will attend those sessions so we will have to make sure we have it on the calendar for sessions when we return in the fall as well but then that's also means when are people actually exposed so we will do both both in thank you for
055the um that additional clarification because that does become concerning because teachers don't want to give up their Summers now it's volunteering then right and and I understand that completely and that's why I wondered about the adoption versus the training because you know we do what we're usually what we're comfortable with so if I'm not comfortable with the correct I'm going into oh what I know to teach and then we have this great curriculum that a teacher and it's not because they're a bad teacher just like hey I got kids here I got to get busy now right and so that's why we also learned um you know through the implementation of the ELA piece this this year which had a few pieces that were not flexible so we were able to make some decisions that
056allowed that flexibility and also address the equity where we make sure that everybody has access and so that was a big part of it too the discussions and the planning Twan and Adam worked really closely together yeah so and so we will do both um but like we said I think that Mr Mater definitely helped Express the process and that is as you dig into the work as you dig into the curriculum as you align it with the standards that you're teaching and go through the process that it's a learning curve that is not just a one-time training and it just continues on so when he talked about the collaboration that will exist between the teachers it does take that learning curve for that process for numerous time periods whether it's sit down in professional
057development and seeing what the features are and looking at the new curriculum what what does this have to offer but then also actually planning using the materials collaborating talking with other teachers and then continuing to develop over the course of the the first year so provide those opportunities so all right and so pretty soon you guys will start to see where everyone started to see those materials outside as well as we continue with the next steps of the process so thank you for your time today Mr Alexander that's all that the team has for you for you all today Miss Jackson okay thank you we don't have any more questions or comments or anything all right we want everything good for the order we will adjourn thank you thank you presentations