The Teaching & Learning Department facilitates targeted curriculum development throughout the school year, utilizing our Professional Learning Communities structure. This includes training on professional development days, weekly and monthly district level, grade level, and departmental PLC meetings, and off calendar days. Curriculum development is done in a K-12 systemic manner utilizing the curriculum review matrix below.
Prescott School District Curriculum Review Matrix
Phase 1: Evaluating
- Identify or refine priority standards following REAL protocol
- Scope & Sequence: Map priority standards across the year/course
- Vertically scaffold priority standards
- Research and intentionally implement best practice instructional strategies (using the Plan-Do-Study-Act model)
Phase 2: Designing I
- Unpack priority standards into student-friendly learning targets
- Depth of Knowledge determined & used to choose learning targets
- Analyze current resources against priority standards.
- What resources are already in place that help students meet the standards?
- What is in place that does not help students meet the priority standards (remove), and what gaps are there?
- Choose resources to pilot (schedule for mid-interval check ins & review)
- Meet with recommended resource vendors to fill specific needs
- Research and intentionally implement best practice instructional strategies (using the PDSA model)
Phase 3: Designing II
- Start to design units via UbD
- Start to design lessons (LESRA, 5 E’s)
- Pilot resources to implement next year (PD in the summer)
- mid-interval check ins & review
- Start creating or revising common formative and summative assessments linked to learning targets
- Start Calibrating scoring on assessments
- Research and intentionally implement best practice instructional strategies (using the PDSA model)
Phase 4: Implementing
- Write & refine common formative and summative assessments to best measure student learning (using the PDSA model)
- Continue Calibrating scoring on assessments
- Implement new resources with support
- Research and intentionally implement best practice instructional strategies (using the PDSA model)
- Support fidelity of implementation
Phase 5: Monitoring and Refining
- Refine pacing: Did the priority standards match the set timeline? LESRA/5Es Lesson Planning
- Continue to research and intentionally implement best practice instructional strategies (using the PDSA model)
- Continually refine common formative and summative assessments to best measure student learning (using the PDSA model)
Phase 6: Monitoring and Refining
- Refine pacing: Did the priority standards match the set timeline?
- Continue to research and intentionally implement best practice instructional strategies (using the PDSA model)
- Continually refine common formative and summative assessments to best measure student learning (using the PDSA model)
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