You are one of April’s favorite teacher 🥰, she’s always talking about you. 💕

Annie Welsh is THE best 🩵🩷💜

Diane Albers spot books are the BEST! 💙❤️💛🧡💜💚🩷🩶

Um yes! What a great hire! Thank you, Annie!

Amazing human!

Great post!!

Great Cougar alumnus right there!!

Annie Welsh is the absolute best!

Annie is the best of the best! ❤️

Can we address this though? www.kcrg.com/2024/12/13/survey-finds-cedar-rapids-school-district-staff-feel-undervalued-consider…

What a great opportunity we are providing for EVERY student’s success! 👏

It will be a big benefit for freshmen! And freshmen should for sure be taking world history. It’s such a good class to get information that you can use in other classes. I took AP world as an 8th grader and I’m so happy I did. I loved earth science, but honestly it’s more of a unit than a full year class. It’s the crust, all about the crust. Fascinating but a Ted talk or a quarter at best. Idk about the teacher aspect. I think they would be happy at the opportunity for things to improve and to focus on a smaller group of students. They can make bigger impact on someone’s life and future that way. But every job changes and grows. My mom has tax accountant and she has a lot of CPE hours to do every year and everything changes with new laws and she doesn’t like the changes but she’s also quite old.

I do agree with some of the freshman academy plan! I just don't agree that teachers should be forced to participate in Freshman Academy teams as they are. And I still question who we will teach upper ap courses when qualified staff are pulled into the freshman teacher team. How are we ensuring all students be engaged in finding their pathway? Are we adding work to the teachers to document this? The counselors? How are we adding additional support to these teachers/counselors for the transition year if this rolls out do staff don't quit? Is there restructuring of social studies and science? Freshman will now take world history where that has been a sophomore course. And earth science and biology will now mesh together for a freshman course? How will we accommodate teaching all 9th and 10th graders world history when this program starts? Adding the earth science standards to other science classes seems to add more work for science teachers with removing/aligning earth science eith other science classes. Moving with this plan as is will limit the electives available. We don't have staff to pull a bunch of teachers into 2 cohorts for freshman teams and team the current high school students on their current plans. There had been discussion about not needing additional teachers and this isn't correct. A big pro that the district is listing for freshman academy is field trips to learn about careers. Where do these drivers come from? I do fear for electives. There are 2.5 choice course spots. How/why do students pick between band, choir, world language and study hall or any number of other electives? I'm sure I have other concerns and questions too.

We can't even staff CRA. Where're the teachers coming from to staff this Freashman Academy?

Love it! Freshmen will absolutely benefit from a smaller, more supportive environment to ease them in.

I am excited freshmen will get a smaller environment and focus from teachers and they can begin to think about what their passions are!

Why isn’t City View included in the plans?

Thanks for posting this. I suggest continuing to put it out there periodically. Onward!

Worth the read for every Teacher and Parent! This was in 2015 when the program was in its infancy phase! Aside from the $15 Million dollars the District receives. www.linkedin.com/pulse/fallacy-career-pathways-education-amy-carrier

It looks like "middle school within a school ". I can see that it could benefit the transition to high school, but can see how there may be staffing and teacher concerns.

*1st grade! 😉😆

Way to go kids!

Troy Elliott we've recieved 103 questions via the online form as of today. We've responded to about 75% and hope to respond to the rest that have been submitted as of today by end of next week if not sooner. If you submitted your question another way please let us know so we can ensure you get a timely response.

I know you’ve gotten a lot of questions sent in. What is your timeline for when we get responses to those questions?

Why only 3 and all in the same week?

Please compile all submitted questions and provide responses for all on the same page of the website which outlines CaCP. Each concern/question deserves a transparent response from leadership.

Will there be an opportunity for those in attendance to submit or ask questions?

Thanks, everyone! Our bad. Yes, the correct address is Jefferson High School Auditorium – 1243 20th Street, SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. We will work to correct the graphic.

Not at Wenig Rd

That is the incorrect address for Jefferson High School

Cedar Rapids Community School District the address is incorrect, that is the address to Kennedy

Congratulations, Tori!

Yes Tori!!!! Way to go!

Congratulations, Tori!!! We know you’ll go far!

I recognize those 3 former students. ❤️

Thank you for holding these informational meetings and thank you for sending out this information in one of the October newsletters. It is a great option for students to consider their future path earlier if they choose to do so. I know I would have deeply appreciated this as a high schooler. I am looking forward to attending to get more information and supporting this initiative for our kids.

I hope that for the next two you really reflect on tonight’s meeting. I hope you decide to shorten the ‘presentation’ and allow for unfiltered questions and truly answer them rather than dance around them to be politically correct. I don’t think people are upset about the pathways, it’s the simple fact that the ‘most important’ voices are finally allowed to be in the conversation and you didn’t have enough respect for us to show concrete data and answer the raw questions we wanted answers to.

Cedar Rapids Community School District – Please consider changing the agenda for the next 2 sessions. We appreciate the information that you are sharing, however we can read through slides and handouts and would much prefer to spend more time addressing questions and concerns from the community. A common phrase in the disability community that truly applies here as well is "Nothing about us, without us." There was a noticeable shock across the room when we heard that this effort has been going on for 18 months and was only shared to the larger community within the last month. Your willingness to become more transparent with the plans and be open to input from the community will go a long way towards acceptance of this new program.

Can you present more data about all these sources of input like Waterloo and survey data? Would love to see the 60k figure as well laid out. Do students graduate from postsecondary faster or achieve at higher rates? Also the bussing situation needs to be communicated more detailed. Lastly, what happens if you change academies do you change schools? I want to go to the Jefferson or Washington presentation to see if any modifications are made or if it is the same questions and vanilla slide deck that do not address any of the most important questions for parents.

Students need to have the option to participate in their Academy classes remotely. My child should not be forced to switch his school of continuation just because you have chosen to locate that Academy at two other schools. The social-emotional repercussions of removing them from their social support network are not balanced by any benefit you perceive. Full stop. I cannot and will not support this until students have the opportunity to remain in their school of continuation while still having the opportunity to participate in their preferred Academy.

Which school do our tax dollars go to? Is it based on where we live or the pathway that is chosen. Let's be real, the 60,000 isn't free!! The taxpayers pay for it.

See petition that has started. www.facebook.com/share/p/17y3US4tZQ/

Will current hs students still have block scheduling while the incoming program is an 8 period day?

Will the meeting be live streamed on this page and available to watch after the meeting? Cedar Rapids Community School District

Will the presenters be addressing questions submitted to your Google form? Or will there be Q&A at each meeting?

These changes will gut music programs in the district. HS students will no longer be able to participate in both vocal and instrumental. Students taking AP classes and foreign languages will only be able to participate in one semester of music in any given year. Families will leave for outlying districts so that their kids can get the opportunities that used to be offered here. CRCSD will be diminished because of these changes.

Hasn’t made sense to me yet.

Somebody must be bored on break or had to work 😂😆

You dont focus on real education you focus of your indoctrination at the expense of kids real future; dont lie or play

The same to you and the staff.