Unalaska, AK – Last night, community members met at the school library to discuss the future of the health and physical education curriculums at Unalaska's schools. All of the school's curricula is on a rotating review schedule. Physical education and health were last reviewed six years ago, and now it's their turn to be evaluated, says Eagle's View Elementary Principal Laurie Scoles.

"We'll be looking at the trends in P.E. and health education that have been going on in the last six years, since we took a look at this curriculum," says Scoles. "Taking a look and seeing what has changed and making sure that we're offering kids all of the current P.E. and health education standards, and adding to the curriculum as it's appropriate."

At the meeting last night, the committee discussed the current trends in PE and health and set out a plan for their review. They talked about recent brain research on the importance of activity and learning, and how that factors into scheduling PE classes into the day.

Scoles thinks that the review process may result in some tweaks to the curriculum but nothing major.

"The curriculum as it's written is really pretty well done," says Scoles. "We don't anticipate a lot of change, and that's a good thing, I think."

There will be four more curriculum review meetings over the next couple of months. The Vocational/Career and Technical Education curricula are also up for review this year.