Program Transfer Goals

• Ask questions, recognize and define problems, and propose solutions.

• Safely and ethically collect, analyze, and evaluate appropriate data.

• Utilize, create, and analyze models to understand the world.

• Make valid claims and informed decisions based on scientific evidence.

• Effectively communicate scientific reasoning to a target audience.

• Engaging in argument from evidence.

Assurance for a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

Adherence to the scope and sequence affords every member of the learning community clarity on the knowledge and skills on which each learner should demonstrate proficiency. In order to deliver a guaranteed and viable curriculum, our team commits to and ensures the following understandings:

Shared Accountability: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

• High levels of learning for all students.

• The district and course formative assessments aligned to the standards for this course support educators and learners in monitoring academic achievement and leveraging interventions.

Shared Understanding: Curriculum Design

• The district curriculum design weaves together elements of science and engineering practices, content,  recurring themes and concepts, and assessments through phenomenon in order to adhere to curriculum design at the macro and micro level, ensuring vertical alignment.

• The district curriculum incorporates standards, scope and sequence, enduring understandings, essential questions, performance assessments, and recommended resources.

Interdependence: Curriculum Units

Members of the learning community utilize the curriculum units, plan collaboratively, and reflect on results for continuous improvement.