Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development. ISD will ensure the vertical alignment of college readiness skills and a college going culture for students feeding into ECHS and students currently enrolled in the ECHS. ACC will be responsible for all ECHS dual-credit courses working with the ISD ECHS Principal/Director or designee and ACC staff as necessary to deliver the agreed-upon ECHS program. ISD will participate in planning to ensure that the necessary dual credit classes are scheduled in a timely manner to facilitate the goals of the ECHS. ACC will ensure that dual credit courses are delivered, and course loads of SQHSCF or other faculty adjusted as needed to accomplish the goals of the ECHS. Where necessary and agreed upon, ACC will create, to the extent possible, additional ACC class sections to facilitate the goals of the ECHS. Requests by ISD for additional class sections must comply with the timelines required by ACC for enrollment and staffing. ACC will ensure that dual credit courses are equivalent to corresponding College courses with respect to curriculum, materials, instruction, and method/rigor of student evaluation. ISD administration will facilitate adherence to requirements imposed by ACC academic departments to ensure the rigor of coursework and college level standards among SQHSCF. If ISD, uses a specific college preparatory program such as AVID college program, ISD will provide program training for all ECHS staff. ISD will assist with campus orientation and information to ACC faculty who are not part of the high school faculty, and will provide information about the standards of conduct for school district faculty and any rules and regulations unique to the high school environment. ACC and ISD will facilitate SQHSCF participation in ACC orientation activities, ACC professional development and required evaluation activities, and college and student success initiatives. ISD will provide release time as necessary for SQHSCF to attend college orientation sessions and to participate in college staff development activities as necessary to maintain good standing in the ACC academic department. ACC will provide each ISD employee teaching a dual credit course in the ECHS Program a stipend of $500 per section, for required professional development.
Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development. 16 The Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development offer several positions in 17 the areas of curricular and/or instructional leadership. These positions are designated as either 18 Curriculum Leaders. Certain positions are fifty (50) percent positions and the remainder of these 19 individuals’ workdays shall be spent as classroom teachers. Individuals serving in a fifty (50) 20 percent position shall not be provided a conference period as part of the assignment. Other 21 individuals shall be assigned on a one hundred (100) percent basis. Determination as to whether
