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health textbook.

World language selection criteria

Dr. Cynthia Hays, chief academic officer, and Ellen Delaney, director of secondary curriculum, shared a recommendation on the process for choosing new world language instructional materials – from textbooks to interactive multimedia.
Three evaluation forms were presented including student, parent/guardian and teacher
versions that had all been reviewed and approved by the district’s Community Curriculum
Advisory Committee (CCAC). The eva luations also reflect suggestions from the American
Council of Teachers of Foreign Language (AMTFL) that world language curriculum and
instructional materials should be structured less on vocabulary and grammar, and more on
situations students may find themselves in when using a new language.
The School Board unanimously approved the selection criteria and evaluation forms. The
curriculum department will now more forward with their search for new world language
instructional materials using the newly approved documents as guides. The documents can
be seen in in their entirety on the Jan. 12 School Board meeting agenda.

Consent agenda

Jan. 12, 2015 regular meeting
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ACTION

The School Board approved:
a. Minutes of the Dec. 8, 2014 School Board meeting.
b. Retirements, resignations, terminations, layoffs and recalls, leaves and modified

leaves of absence, appointments, extra service agreements, curriculum writing.
c. Cash disbursements report.
d. Cash balance report.
e. Donations and scholarships report.
f. Lincoln Elementary ventilation upgrade 15023B.
g. Franklin Elementary ventilation upgrade 15022B.
h. Morris Bye Elementary ventilation upgrade 15021B.
i. Riverview Early Childhood Center ventilation upgrade.
j. Furnish and deliver HVAC Filters 15025P.
k. April 28 administration of ACTs.
l. Contract between ECFE and Anoka County Community Social Services.
m. Elementary Keyboarding.
n. Declaration establishing Veterans Day and Columbus Day as holidays not

observed with time off for all future school years.
o. Immunization exclusions.