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AGENDA:

1. GENERAL:
 * Reminders: Textbook orders in by 3/29
 * Student Feedback forms due by 4/07
 * History Award Winner
 * Greta Weiss
 * Emma Smith
 * Will Koch
 * Davis Collison...
 * History Summer Reading Book
 * Hillbilly
 * Hillbilly

2. CURRICULUM At the last Academic Council meeting, we discussed going back to our departments to look again at the requirements for graduation in our disciplines. As we develop programming and elective options for the innovation center, we need to think about how we can create more flexibility in our course options. 3 CARP:
 * From Elaine: Why are we requiring what we’re requiring? As we consider innovation and new approaches, AND we’re a college prep school, how do we do what we’re doing well?
 * UW Madison requires 3 years Social Studies
 * Can you require 3.5 years? We could say that we require all students to take 3 + 1 electives.
 * How we have it is really nicely set up. 3 years that prepare them for electives.
 * We're less structured than math/science. BUT kids out of Freshman taking Econ., writing level isn't there.
 * Flexibility--looking at kids where they are.
 * Coordinate language for our At-A-Glance Documents. (this is basically completed, I just need feedback)
 * identify trends, inconsistencies, redundancies.
 * if we want something that someone else can pick up and find meaningful, is it worth our time/reader's time to futz through 15 bullet points that are on every document. That seems redundant.
 * immediate priorities?
 * alignment (curriculum, grading, activities)