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Curriculum and Instruction

Professional Learning Communities

A professional learning community process refers to a school-wide system of teacher teams who collaborate on issues of instruction, assessment, and other school topics with the goal of improving student learning.
Link to details for the Friday late start

The Marzano Instructional Framework is used by Blair Community Schools. The Framework provides a common language used for everything related to school improvement, professional development, instruction, student learning, and is linked to the Teacher Evaluation tool.

Blair Community Schools follows a curriculum cycle process which allows content areas to align instruction and assessment to updated Nebraska State Standards as they are revised by the Nebraska Department of Education.

Assessment Calendars can be found on each building page

District Assessment:

Fastbridge
- Given in grades K-2 in the fall, winter, and spring
MAP Measures of Academic Progress (click link to parent resources)
- Given in grades 3-8 in the fall, winter, and spring
- Results are shared at parent-teacher conferences and are posted to the SIMS on line parent portal right after the testing window
- The focus on MAP is individual student growth
Pre-ACT (click link to parent resources)
- Given in grades 9 and 10 in the spring
- Results are mailed home
- The focus is on individual growth from 9th-11th grade

State Assessment: (click to NDE assessment site)

NSCAS (Nebraska Student Centered Assessment System)
- Given in grades 3-8
- Results are mailed home as soon as they are received from the State
ACT (click link to parent resources)
- Given in grade 11
- Results are mailed home as soon as they are received from the State

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