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2220 - ADOPTION OF COURSES OF STUDY
The Board of Education shall provide a comprehensive instructional program to serve the educational needs of the students of this District. The Board shall periodically adopt courses of study that define the key components of the District's curriculum and instruction.
No course of study shall be taught in the schools of this District unless the Educational Service Center Board adopted it and this Board approved it. The Educational Service Center Board shall determine which units of the instructional program constitute courses of study and are thereby subject to its adoption procedures.
The Superintendent shall recommend to the Board such courses of study as are deemed to be in the best interest of the students. Each course of study shall:
| A. | align with the District's mission, philosophy, educational goals, and strategic plan; | |
| B. | identify learning and performance expectations; | |
| C. | provide a scope and sequence of knowledge and skills to be learned; | |
| D. | prescribe methods for assessment of student progress and the means for intervention; | |
| E. | address the developmental needs of early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescent through young adult students; | |
| F. | be guided by Ohio's State-adopted academic content standards. |
Each course of study is intended to provide a basic framework for instruction and learning. Within this framework, each teacher shall use the course of study in a manner best designed to meet the needs of the students for whom s/he is responsible. Deviation from its content must be approved in accordance with the Superintendent's administrative guidelines.
The Superintendent shall maintain a current list of all courses of study offered by this District.
The Board recognizes that there may be a need from time-to-time to augment one or more segments of a course of study with a guide in order to better accomplish learning results with students.
The list shall include a description of each course of study and its date of adoption.
R.C. 3301.07, 3313.60
A.C. 3301-35-02
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