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Questar School Improvement staff worked with local schools to review & analyze current curriculums. As a result of the pandemic and acknowledgement that students are exhibiting many learning gaps and may have less curricular time directly with teachers this year, they developed the Critical Concepts document.
Critical Concepts are the pieces of knowledge, skill, and understanding that are most essential for student growth. These standards represent a framework, a skeleton, on which many other pieces of learning hang. It is important to note that there are many more standards in each grade level and in each subject than you will find here, and to ignore the full breadth of those standards would be to deny our students richer, deeper knowledge. However, as all teachers know, students come to us at different stages of growth and mastery. Purposeful instructional planning requires teachers to know what foundational learning came just before and which knowledge or skills are on the horizon for our students. The enclosed K-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics Critical Concepts map out the progression of skills our students need in order to get there.
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