{"id":34009,"date":"2025-01-28T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/home\/?p=34009"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:45:03","slug":"course-registration-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/home\/course-registration-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Registration: What You Need to Know","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Students in grades 5 (Lake Highlands Learning Community) &amp; 6-11<\/strong> are gearing up to make critical decisions about what courses they will take for the 2025-26 school year, with resources available to help navigate the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Course selection deadlines and requirements vary by grade level, and families are encouraged to explore our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.risd.org\/chartyourcoursehandbook\/home\">Chart Your Course website<\/a> and individual campus websites and newsletters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key details by grade level:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Future 6th grade: <\/strong>Students in the Lake Highlands learning community will get to choose regular or advanced core courses and select one elective (band, orchestra, choir &amp; art) to take in middle school.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Future 7th-8th grades: <\/strong>Choose from expanded electives like CTE introduction courses, AVID, fine arts, world languages &amp; athletics. Future 8th graders can also choose to enroll in high school credit courses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Future 9th grade: <\/strong>Create four-year plans focusing on graduation requirements and plan courses that follow their area of interest like Arts &amp; Humanities, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/cte\/\">CTE pathways<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/cte\/\">PTECH Academies<\/a>, or JROTC.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Future 9th-12th grades: <\/strong>Choose regular, advanced, or AP level core courses, and consider dual credit (Dallas College) or OnRamps (The University of Texas at Austin) to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/advancedlearningservices\/earn-college-credit-while-in-high-school\/\">earn college credit<\/a>. 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