Freshmen to see course changes for 2013-14

Current freshmen will see changes in weighted and dual-credit courses go into effect for their sophomore year after the Sedalia School District 200 Board of Education voted Monday night to accelerate the process lined out by district administrators.

The original plan, proposed by Smith-Cotton High School Principal Steve Triplett and Carla Wheeler, the district’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment, called for the changes to start with students who will become freshmen in the 2013-14 school year. The goal is to increase enrollment in advanced placement classes and dual-credit courses — those for which students can get both high school and college credit — to help meet new Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP5) standards that call for greater college and career readiness. Weighted classes are those with a higher degree of difficulty, and thus merit more points toward a student’s grade-point average; adding “weight” to a difficult course makes it more appealing to students looking to secure high GPAs or honors such as valedictorian.

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