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CVUSD Ethnic Studies Pilot Course

On March 16, 2021, the CVUSD Board of Education amended CVUSD Administrative Regulation 6143 "Courses of Study" to include the creation of an ethnic studies course commencing with the fall of 2022. Since then, the California State Board of Education (SBE) approved Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum on March 18, 2021 to assist high schools in developing ethnic studies courses. California Assembly Bill 101 amended Section 51225.3 and California’s high school graduation requirements on November 18, 2021 to now include an ethnic studies course. CVUSD staff, in collaboration with educational partners, have designed an ethnic studies course based on the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum to be a course pilot to implement in Fall 2022. 

The pilot ethnic studies is offered as an optional elective for high school students only, beginning in the fall of 2022.

In alignment with Assembly Bill 101, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, CVUSD will offer a one-semester ethnic studies course. Students in the class of 2030 will be the first class required to complete the ethnic studies course to graduate.

Timeline and Process

March/April 2021

3/16/21
CVUSD Board Amendment to Administrative Regulation 6143
Developed Ethnic Studies Working Group (ESWG)

3/30/21
Initial meeting with ESWG to review framework and model curriculum Equity Task Force (ETF) curriculum collaboration meetings

4/20/21
Update to Board of Education

May/June 2021

5/17/21
ESWG and District staff hold planning session with Oxnard Union High School District staff

5/26/21
ESWG debrief and planning meeting

September 2021

9/22/21 & 9/29/21
ESWG full release day to develop Course of Study (COS) & resource list

9/27/21
SDAC initiated Educational Equity Committee to provide feedback on ethnic studies pilot

October/November 2021

10/7/21
ETF meeting to update and solicit feedback on COS

10/25/21
SDAC meeting Educational Equity Committee to review feedback

10/27/21
History/Social Science updates and discussion

11/1/21
ESWG met to updated COS

December/January/February 2021-2022

12/1/21
ETF meeting for updates

12/9/21
ESWG met to review COS based on ETF feedback

1/12/22
Meeting with ETF, SDAC, and ESWG members to update, review

1/19/22
H/SS Articulation approval

2/2/22
Secondary Curriculum Advisory Council (SCAC) approval

March/April 2022

3/11/22
Meeting with CVUSD Leadership to review COS

4/12/22
Presentation of ethnic studies course pilot

Textbooks and Materials

A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America is a book by Ronald Takaki and adapted by Rebecca Stefoff.
For more information about this book, click here. 

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