Curriculum

Our Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (GVC) is defined as:

The essential content, standards, and skills that students must know and demonstrate to be successful in the next grade, course, or level. Our TCSD GVC includes the Wyoming Content and Performance Standards. , course and grade level curricular maps, and instructional resources that teachers use to teach the essential content, skills, and standards. 

Instruction

TCSD Instructional Priorities: Evidence based practices to increase student engagement and achievement  TCSD Instructional Priorities

TCSD Instructional Frameworks: Guiding instructional models and resources: 

Literacy Framework

TCSD Math Instructional Framework 

Assessment

The District Assessment System is designed to ensure that our instructional core (Guaranteed Viable Curriculum (GVC), instructional model, and instructional resources) is effective and that we  are meeting state accountability measures. TCSD’s DAS includes universal screening, common formative assessments, common summative assessments, and external summative assessments. Universal screeners are the initial step in the DAS to identify student and instructional needs. Common formative assessments drive continuous improvement of professional learning communities. Summative assessments are used to ensure that our formative assessments are achieving the rigor of the standards for all.

Guiding Principles of Balanced Assessment Framework

In TCSD we believe:

• The purpose of assessment is to inform instruction and provide actionable feedback for systems, schools, teachers, and students.

• A balanced assessment system includes common formative and summative assessments that are used across schools.

• A K-5 standards-referenced learning and reporting system is implemented to measure progress towards mastery on essential standards.

• A 6-12 Evidence Based Grading (EBG) framework is implemented to measure progress towards essential skill mastery and standards-referenced learning.