Curriculum Refresh

We are reimagining learning through the Curriculum Refresh!

To achieve the vision that in Klein ISD every student enters with a promise and exits with a purpose we are calling on ALL P2P Investors including teachers, specialists, librarians, principals, assistant principals, counselors, and others. Are you innovative, self-reflective, and living out the vision in your school everyday? We need you to apply for the Curriculum Refresh Working Teams! Now is your chance to give your feedback, your ideas, and to unleash your creativity for the Curriculum Refresh. We need everyone’s voice!

We are creating three working teams of educators from all grade levels and content areas who will refresh the curriculum based on the Theory of Action that our Curriculum Refresh Design Team created with input from thousands of voices from students, our educators, and community. The three teams include a standards team, an assessment team, and a create and curate team.

The Teaching & Learning Team will be here to help support you the whole way, and you will receive training on the theory of action and personalized learning before jumping into the work! Here is your opportunity to collaborate with other awesome educators from across Klein ISD to create a guaranteed, viable, flexible, and challenging curriculum and to be a part of something really cool happening in Klein ISD.

Curriculum Refresh Semester Timeline

2018-19 Meeting Dates

Learn More About the Curriculum Refresh Teams

Essential Standards Team

The Texas Standards are the blueprints for student learning and how we implement them is crucial for the success for our curriculum refresh. Are you someone who knows the importance of your content standards and wants use that experience to create a new framework for student learning? Well there is a place for you on the Curriculum Refresh Standards Team! Members of Teaching and Learning will be doing the heavy lifting - supporting you so that together we can bundle essential and supporting standards, identify the success criteria, and create a learning progression of standards. Help us lay a strong, dependable foundation for some amazing work!

Assessment Team

Assessing student progress is essential when preparing and leading students to success. I know what you’re thinking - but we are not just talking Benchmarks and State Tests. Do you have experience implementing different types of assessments - formative and summative - in your classroom? Do you use different strategies when gauging student mastery? Join the Curriculum Refresh Assessment team and let your creativity run wild. We need your help in designing assessments for EVERY learner! You will have the important role of ensuring that learning and assessments have a fluid, working relationship.

Create & Curate Team

Growth Mindset, Learner Focused, Tech Savvy, Responsive to the needs of EVERY student in your classroom. If you’re thinking...wait...that’s me! Then we need you to join the Curriculum Refresh - Create and Curate team. You will be working together with members of Teaching and Learning to design and adapt lessons and resources - that are aligned to standards and address learning gaps, but also challenge students. Throughout our district we have many high quality teachers with dynamic lessons that are ready to be discovered and showcased by you!

Now's Your Chance to Apply!

Member Attributes

Innovative leader with a passion for student learning
Caretaker of students focused on their educational experiences
Instructional risk-taker who thoughtfully disrupts the status quo for the benefit of students
Problem-finder, question-asker, solution-minded
Transformer of "why we can't" to "how we can"
Culturally responsive educator who strives for every student’s success
Forever learner who works collaboratively with a dynamic group of educators
Embraces growth mindset and isn’t discouraged by failing forward

Member Responsibilities

Focus on writing curriculum for Math (Pre-Kindergarten through Algebra I) and Science (Pre-Kindergarten through Biology)
Serve on a team with educators with expertise in various content areas and grade levels
Review curriculum for vertical and horizontal alignment
Articulate progress to all shareholders

Team Descriptions

Essential Standards--Responsible for correlating essential stands with supporting standards, identifying success criteria; establishing a tentative learning progression of the standards
Success Criteria/Assessment--Responsible for designing formative and summative assessments that incorporate a variety of strategies that check for mastery and address different learning styles; ensuring alignment to standards and appropriate timing and pacing
Create and Curate--Responsible for designing and/or adapting existing lessons and resources; ensuring various instructional strategies are used to address learning gaps and challenge students; ensuring that lessons and resources are aligned with standards

Before completing the application, please review the information about Personalized Learning:

Personalized Learning has 4 central tenets:

Students have a unique learning profile.
Students have a customized path through the curriculum.
The curriculum allows for competency-based progression.
Learning delivery/environments are flexible and responsive to student needs.

Additionally, please see the differences in Personalized, Differentiated, and Individualized Learning.

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