36:29 - 37:39
"One of the risks that we have— I'm not as concerned, frankly, with that health concepts are going to be taught in K-3 because it is in CKLA and we have over a 90% implementation of CKLA. I would be more concerned if it was a standalone curriculum because there are no minutes to teach it. If we count up the minutes within the day and the minutes that it takes for our students for reading, for math, for science, for social studies, there are not even— there we can fit the 30-minute SEL block on Mondays because we have reduced reading on Mondays because of PLCs. There is not a 30-minute time block within our day"
“One of the risks that we have— I'm not as concerned, frankly, with that health concepts are going to be taught in K-3 because it is in CKLA and we have over a 90% implementation of CKLA. I would be more concerned if it was a standalone curriculum because there are no minutes to teach it. If we count up the minutes within the day and the minutes that it takes for our students for reading, for math, for science, for social studies, there are not even— there we can fit the 30-minute SEL block on Mondays because we have reduced reading on Mondays because of PLCs. There is not a 30-minute time block within our day”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 36:29 – 37:39
- Transcript
- 5/19/2026: School Board Work Session
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- May 20, 2026
From the transcript
I'll say there's, there's a couple issues that are— that we just have fundamentally within our elementary setting. One of the risks that we have— I'm not as concerned, frankly, with that health concepts are going to be taught in K-3 because it is in CKLA and we have over a 90% implementation of CKLA. I would be more concerned if it was a standalone curriculum because there are no minutes to teach it. If we count up the minutes within the day and the minutes that it takes for our students for reading, for math, for science, for social studies, there are not even— there we can fit the 30-minute SEL block on Mondays because we have reduced reading on Mondays because of PLCs. There is not a 30-minute time block within our day when we have a 30-minute recess every day and our lunchtime and transitions, there is technically not enough minutes in the day.
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