From Mandate to Achievement : 5 Steps to a Curriculum System That Works!

This book for K'12 school leaders and curriculum specialists leads educators step by step through curriculum planning and development processes-from data analysis to alignment, mapping, pacing, assessment, and monitoring. The completion of each of these phases results in the creation of curriculum documents and curriculum benchmarks. With these documents a district will know: What academic expectations they are expected to teach and test in what grade or class Where the data gaps are for each academic expectation Where and when the expectations will be taught and the materials necessary to teach them How to use a common assessment to test the expectations within grades or subjects