|
|  |
Printer Friendly
Text Version Email Page
 |  |  |
Strand I - Teaching for Learning The school holds high expectations for all students, identifies essential curricular content, makes certain it is sequenced appropriately and is taught effectively in the available instructional times. Assessments used are aligned to curricular content and are used to guide instructional decisions and monitor student learning. |
| |

 |
Planning
• Michigan K-8 Grade Level Content Expectations | • Standards for Teaching and Learning | • Beating the Odds: A City-by-City Analysis of Student Performance and Achievement Gaps on State Assessments(Council of Great City Schools) | • Michigan Curriculum Framework The Michigan Curriculum Framework includes standards focused on content, teaching and learning, assessment, and professional development. | • GLCE English Language Arts Across the Grades Documents v.12.05 | • Coalition of Essential Schools For over twenty years, CES has been a national leader in public education transformation. Guided by the Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.
| • Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement McREL?s Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement is intended to help school leadership teams ? teachers, administrators, and other school leaders ? deal with the complexity of change by explaining what it takes to sustain improvement and by providing guidelines for addressing the factors that affect the ability to do so. | • Annenberg Institute's Tools for School Improvement Planning Web site contains observation protocols, focus group samples and questions, surveys, questionnaires, and other techniques to help you examine your specific school-improvement concerns. | • Surveys of Enacted Curriculum Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) are affordable, research-based questionnaires developed through collaborative efforts of state specialists, content experts, and education researchers at the Council of Chief State School Officers, Learning Point Associates, and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. SEC tools are currently available for K-12 teachers of English language arts (including reading), mathematics, and science. | • Lesson Planner The Lesson Planner is a free, comprehensive tool for teachers who desire a complete and exhaustive means to plan curriculum units aligned with standards that address assessment, content, teaching strategies, and use of technology while incorporating their own unique content and conditions. | • Curriculum Mapping Web Site Curriculum Mapping is a free, user-friendly, and interactive Web site supporting district leaders and curriculum experts in refining existing mathematics and science curricula. It was developed by North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), the U.S. Third International Science and Mathematics Study (TIMSS) National Research Center at Michigan State University, and First in the World Consortium. | • National Education Association: School Quality Website A website committed to identifying the conditions a school needed to have in place for students to achieve at the highest levels. | • National Association for Bilingual Education | • (SCoPE) Sample Curriculum and Plans for Education One-of-a-kind web resource, created for teachers - by teachers - to improve student achievement. | • National Education Association Teacher Toolkit The NEA Teacher ToolKit? is a fully integrated web-based application that empowers teachers to make curricular decisions with confidence. | • Comprehensive School Reform Program Registry | • Ensuring Excellent Educators |
| |
Best Pracitices
Resources
Associations
Books
 |
|
 |
|