Curriculum
Universal Access to all Courses via Virtual Classrooms
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Offering all courses online to all students across MCPS, in addition to regular in-person learning
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Ensuring that over-enrollment does not prevent students from taking their desired courses
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Ensuring that students can take all their desired courses, regardless of if their school offers it
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Ensuring high-quality education in online courses
Career Readiness Pathway Programming
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Increasing and expanding career-specific training programs like the pathways offered at Thomas Edison High School and the Aviation and Aerospace Program
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Ensuring that career readiness programming is equitable and accessible
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Offering career readiness programing online to be accessible to students across MCPS
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Promoting career readiness programming as well as career opportunities
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Providing students with experience in respective career paths
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Continuing and promoting Teacher Signing Day (signing MCPS Students to jobs within MCPS after college)
Comprehensive Health Curriculum
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Updating and modernizing the health curriculum at all levels
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Facilitating comprehensive education around mental health for students in elementary, middle, and high school
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Including comprehensive education around consent in all schools
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Require teacher sensitivity training for health educators
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Ensuring that the health curriculum in inclusive to LGBTQ+ communities
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Enforcing that updated curriculum is being taught and that health classrooms are safe spaces for all students
Teaching Real-World Skills
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Improving current and creating new courses to be oriented towards preparing students with real-world skills including financial literacy and career preparedness
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Increasing and expanding career-specific training programs like the pathways offered at Thomas Edison High School and the Aviation and Aerospace Program
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Supporting the development of a required financial literacy course
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Working with students to meet their educational needs
Minimizing Standard Testing
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Transitioning away from relying on standardized testing
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Using project-based assignments and student grades as metrics of learning, instead of adding on standardized testing
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Ensuring that testing is minimized and does not disrupt student learning or access to resources in school
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Prioritizing the mental health of students
Working with Students to Create Diverse and Accessible New Courses
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Streamlining the process of creating and piloting new courses
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Ensuring that student voices are included in writing curricula
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Increasing the number of schools in which new courses are offered
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Offering courses online to be accessible to all students
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Minimizing the required amount of prerequisite courses
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Creating a diverse array of elective history and studies courses
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Increasing the number of arts courses offered in each school
Inclusivity in Curriculum
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Ensuring social studies and english courses are accurate and inclusive in content
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Using diverse source materials in social studies and english classrooms
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Providing students with a diverse array of options for content, literature, and materials for study
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Regularly updating current courses and creating new courses based on student feedback to be inclusive
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Providing diverse and accessible courses options modeled after the LGBTQ Studies and Asian American Studies courses
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Requiring professional development for teachers and staff members to be create inclusive classrooms