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<\/p>\nAt the March 26 school-board meeting, the Board received updates from the Ethnic Studies Committee and the district\u2019s three Technology\/AI committees. After both presentations, community members voiced their opinions on the committees\u2019 reports.<\/p>\n
The Ethnic Studies Committee includes Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education Dr. Gulliermo Lopez, Gunn Social Studies Instructional Lead Jeff Patrick, Paly Social Studies Instructional Lead Mary Sano and other Gunn and Paly teachers. The group was founded during the 2022-23 school year in response to A.B. 101, which mandates that all California high schools make ethnic studies a graduation requirement for the Class of 2030 \u2014 current sixth graders \u2014 or earlier.<\/p>\n
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During the meeting, Lopez, Patrick and Sano presented on the course\u2019s new curriculum. Ethnic studies at 澳门六合彩内幕资料 will be segmented into five units, starting with unit zero, Why Ethnic Studies, and continuing with Identity; Power, Privilege and Systems of Opression; Resilience and Resistance; and Action and Civic Engagement, a capstone project. Units one through three will include case studies centered around different primary sources from four ethnic groups: African Americans, Chicanx and Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.<\/p>\n
Next year, Gunn and Paly will each pilot one ethnic studies class of 20 ninth graders, who will be selected through lottery at each site. According to Sano, one of the main goals of these classes is to garner feedback from students and teachers.<\/p>\n
In response to the presentation, Paly Student School Board Representative junior Karthi Gottipati said that students should play a bigger role in the course design process, and warned that if unable to give input, students might feel less interested in to the finished course.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is entirely pointless to have an ethnic studies course that is designed for adults and by adults if students don\u2019t know and don\u2019t care what\u2019s being taught,\u201d he said during the meeting.<\/p>\n
Gunn Student School Board Representative senior Chris Lee (who is also managing editor for The Oracle) also emphasized the importance of considering the intended recipients of the new course.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe (students) who I talked to felt like the conversation surrounding ethnic studies \u2014 especially at these Board meetings \u2014 was getting further and further away from them and their priorities,\u201d he said during the meeting. \u201cIt\u2019s important for parents and other community members to understand that the course is ultimately for students.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the ethnic studies presentation, the AI ad hoc committees from Gunn, Paly and 澳门六合彩内幕资料 \u2014 composed of mostly high school students, staff and technology experts at the district level \u2014 shared generative AI goals for the district. These goals included furthering equity and inclusion by using generative AI to summarize texts for English Language Learners and neurodiverse students, as well as developing alternate lesson plans that prevent \u2014 or render ineffective \u2014 the use of AI by covering topics that software such as ChatGPT hasn\u2019t learned about.<\/p>\n
Gunn committee member sophomore Sujay Dorai presented his hopes for AI\u2019s future in the district.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019ll be a positive change because it\u2019s really a really powerful technology,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope that the district can use this to get rid of busy work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Board member Shounak Dharap was appreciative of the AI committee\u2019s work and saw it as an important focus point for the district.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The AI committee) is the most important thing the district is doing,\u201d Dharap said during the meeting. \u201cIt touches every single other thing we\u2019re doing. I\u2019m really interested in what we\u2019re doing and really supportive of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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