Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment
What it looks like at the DISTRICT LEVEL
Strengthen Personalized Instructional Strategies by:
👉 Establishing a curriculum that ensures deeper learning outcomes connected to real-world applications, builds a twenty-first-century skill set, and maximizes student learning opportunities.
👉 Maximizing student agency by providing the tools, resources, and goal-setting opportunities needed to master critical knowledge and skills while amplifying each student’s interests, strengths, and passions.
👉 Creatively construct nontraditional opportunities that maximize student learning outcomes.
What it looks like at the BUILDING LEVEL
Strengthen Personalized Learning by:
👉 Ensuring teachers have access to curriculum, assessments, resources, and professional learning that support strong content knowledge and pedagogy.
👉 Providing teachers with sufficient collaborative planning time.
👉 Adopting authentic, performance-based assessments that support personalized learning.
👉 Coaching teachers in the development of dynamic learning experiences and model the use of differentiated instructional strategies.
What it looks like at the CLASSROOM LEVEL
Inspires and Supports Personalized Learning by:
👉 Leading in the selection, integration, organization, and sharing of resources and tools to support transformational teaching and learning.
👉 Designing and delivering curricula and assessments that integrate elements of deeper learning, critical thinking, information literacy, digital citizenship, and creativity.
👉 Encouraging and facilitating students to become increasingly self-directed as they engage in critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic real-world problem solving.
Use of Space & Time
What it looks like at the DISTRICT LEVEL
Rethink, Redesign, and Transform Learning Spaces by:
👉 Designing research-based learning spaces that are responsive to student needs.
👉 Promote and support flexible, learner-centered spaces that amplify student voice, choice, and agency.
👉 Creatively construct nontraditional opportunities that maximize student learning outcomes.
What it looks like at the BUILDING LEVEL
Rethink and Redesign Space by:
👉 Removing barriers and cultivate conditions for collaboration.
👉 Rethinking and designing the master schedule to support the school’s vision for teaching and learning.
👉 Supporting innovative spaces that mirror the desired pedagogical practices and respond to students’ needs.
What it looks like at the CLASSROOM LEVEL
Promotes the Innovative Use of Time and Space for Personalized Learning by:
👉 Supporting district goals in removing traditional pace, path, and time restrictions that limit learning, then redefine learning to fit the needs of individual learners.
👉 Providing flexible time and spaces that promote inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and classroom community.
👉 Designing and delivering lessons and activities that align with a personal and authentic student learning experience.