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by A. Campbell, Moco360

[School board approved student-initiated classes.

"Pilot courses and topics are driven by student interests and supported by teachers,"

Pilot course development timeline is a two-to four-year process with the goal of a pilot becoming an official class that can be offered at other schools. No additional funding is provided for schools that offer pilot courses. The courses are electives, so staffing is determined by enrollment, schools can offer a pilot course only if it has sufficient enrollment, so the course doesn’t “pull staffing resources from other noncore elective classes,"

The school board approved three pilot classes for the 2025-2026 school year.

“Hip-Hop Poetics and Rhetoric: Exploring the Golden Age of Hip Hop” to be offered at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring for its first year in the pilot program.

“Jewish Peoplehood Throughout History” at Blair(??).

“Social Justice Through Public Policy” at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda will be in their second year of the pilot process. Those two courses are currently available to students.

The school board also gave final approval for several courses that have already successfully completed the pilot proces. 
Includes:
ethnic studies at Poolesville High School

Global Climate Change at Northwood and Walter Johnson high schools

Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Design (AIVR) at Northwood][/quote]

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