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Pathways Sub-Committee
Meeting Notes
We began our discussion by resolving whether the Pathways option would be for select
students or mandated to all: it would be for all incoming freshman with the option to
change their pathway throughout their high school career.
We then discussed some local schools that currently run specific pathways and related
those schools to Dumont.
We questioned the available options for students to obtain high school credits (Bergen
Community College, within and outside of school offered extra curricula such as dance,
football, etc. replacing partial gym credits to offer more physical education electives
thereby avoiding any possible loss of jobs but perhaps creating smaller classes focused in
certain areas of interest for both the physical education teacher and students).
There is a consensus among the group that there is a need for more electives to support
the Pathways structure, some examples for science were half-year courses in geology,
forensic science, astronomy, etc.
We agreed that all freshman students should begin their Pathways courses with
generalized courses that are required for all Pathways so that if any student decides to
switch, they have still met graduation requirements.
We looked into adding more specific Pathway options but decided to keep them broad
and allow the electives chosen to make them more specific to certain interests.
We concluded the meeting by breaking into subgroups and splitting up the pathways with
the goal of designing a program/pathway of study for our specialties based on the
provided templates and input from our own departments.