3.1 Curriculum & Assessment aligned to standards
Leading Indicator 3.1
The school curriculum and accompanying assessments adhere to state and district standards.
Goal Statement #1: Our school's written curriculum has been analyzed to ensure that it correlates with state and district standards (for example, the Common Core State Standards [CCSS].
All curriculum in individual courses is derived from prioritized standards, which is derived from various state, national, or trade-specific standards.
For each course, the standard prioritized from each standard list is in the left column (see Geometry example below)
ELA=CCSS MATH=CCSS SOCIAL STUDIES=Illinois Social Studies Standards Science=NGSS CTE=Illinois Essential Employability Competencies + various trade/subject specific standard World Languages= ACTFL World Language Competencies Fine Arts=Illinois Arts Learning Standards PE=Illinois Physical Education Standards
Goal Statement #2: Our school's curriculum adequetely addresses important 21st Century Skills (for example, College and Career Readiness anchor standards and CCSS Mathematical Practices).
Habits of Work (derived from various 21st century and college and career readiness standards)
Essential Employability Competencies (EEC) in Alignment with Illinois Postsecondary & Workforce Readiness Act (PWR)
District 100 has implemented career pathway endorsements, derived of the competencies from the PWR act
Goal Statement for indicators #3-6: School teams meet regularly to ensure our school's taught curriculum (that is, what is taught in classrooms) and assessments have been analyzed to ensure that it correlates with and accurately measures the written curriculum.
-Assessments analyzed for alignment to standards
-Curriculum taught matches curriculum written to measure standards
-Teams meet regularly to analyze these relationships
PLC Process with Focus on Standards-based Results
Each content-based PLC team has aligned their weekly meetings to exploring instruction, assessment, and intervention toward the priority standards.
Step 1: Each team gets certified on their PLC "goals"
Step 2: Each group recognizes priority standards for the course
Step 3: PLC team Cycles through (using agendas) planning instruction, common assessments, data analysis from common assessments, interventions on standards
2021-22 Focus: PLC Stages 4 & 5 - For each scale, PLCs are defining what constitutes a 3.0 & 2.0 and are calibrating their scoring using student samples. These documents have become integral to us being able to have common expectations for learning while allowing for student ownership and personalization of assessment.