Curriculum

TBCSC believes that the only way a school's curriculum can be truly guaranteed is when teachers work collaboratively to do the following:

• Study the intended curriculum.
  • Unwrapping/deconstructing standards to identify embedded learning targets-aids in the design of aligned instruction and assessments
  • Provides collective clarity across the team about the end in mind of the standards.
• Clarify how the curriculum translates into scholar knowledge and skills.
  • Identifying what scholars are expected to know, understand and do/demonstrate
• Commit to prioritizing "power standards," within the curriculum.
  • Establish general pacing guidelines for delivering the curriculum.
  • Developing common pacing guides/calendars provides the team with opportunities to think carefully about how assessment, intervention and extension fit into planning.
• Commit to teach the agreed-on curriculum
• Use data from common formative assessments as a guide to direct subsequent instruction