All students can engage in rigorous and relevant grade-level work through the use of high-quality curricular materials.
All students must have access to grade-level content with appropriate scaffolds and support to meet or exceed standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
All students can engage in affirming and meaningful instruction that honors students’ ethnic, racial, and linguistic identities to foster student advocacy.
All students and staff must engage in active listening, respectful discussion, and celebrate productive struggle as part of learning, which will create safe and supportive classroom environments.
Consistent implementation of high-quality instructional materials is the first step toward ensuring every student's success. The information below delineates Tier 1 curricular materials that schools and teachers are expected to implement as the foundation of classroom instruction and outlines other instructional materials and supports made available to all from the District level.
The Core Instructional Actions below are high-leverage, research-based strategies that will support student achievement in this discipline. This is not an exhaustive list, but a prioritized one based on what we know are our existing strengths and challenges. They are actions and strategies we expect to see teachers implementing in class with students.
The Core Student Practices identified below delineate the most important disciplinary practices in which we believe students should be engaged. They are actions, practices, and types of thinking that we should see evidence of students doing in class on a regular basis.