From Mandate to Achievement

Elaine Makas - Curriculum Connections

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Curriculum Leadership | Standards & Accountability | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

December 2009 | 248 pages | Corwin

This book for Kû12 school leaders and curriculum specialists leads educators step by step through curriculum planning and development processesùfrom 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 classWhere the data gaps are for each academic expectationWhere and when the expectations will be taught and the materials necessary to teach themHow to use aácommon assessment to test the expectations within grades or subjects

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Part I. Foundations of Purpose and Implementation

1. An Introduction to Teacher-Led Curriculum Processes: The DAILY Curriculum System

2. A Brief Theoretical Foundation: Why Build a Curriculum System Through Teacher-Led Processes?

3. Getting Ready: Planning for the Components of the DAILY Curriculum System

Part II. A Planned Journey of Curriculum Processes

4. Data First: What Is Our Data Telling Us About Our Teaching and Our Students?

5. Curriculum Alignment: Do We Have a Match Between Standards and Instruction?

6. Developing Instructional Goals: Keeping a Bridge Between Curriculum Processes and Instruction

7. Creating Curriculum Maps: The Connection Between Instruction and Standards

8. Instructional Pace Guides: Adding Instructional Depth With Key Concepts and Essential Questions

9. The Final Link: Building Local Common Assessments

Part III. Maintaining Stability and Success

10. Creating Stability: Sustaining, Monitoring, and Adjusting a Curriculum Process System

Conclusion: Reflections on a Curriculum System

Resource A: Further Reading

Resource B: Sample Agendas

Resource C: Blank Forms

Resource D: Sample Curriculum Maps

Resource E: Sample Local K?8 Common Assessment Manual for English Language Arts and Mathematics

References

Index

"Elaine Makas gives educators a much-needed guide to providing meaningful, productive assistance in the improvement of instruction for the 21st century. She addresses the challenges that face teachers and administrators to implement standards and align them to the criteria of high-stakes testing. She does this through the dynamics and complexities of working with teacher teams. Her hands-on experience leads her to provide many tables, charts, and facilitator tips that are extremely helpful to practitioners."

Eric J. Follo, Professor of Education

Oakland University, Michigan

"Elaine Makas has created an engaging tool that many educators need! This book will guide your journey through the morass of curriculum alignment, development, and assessment. From Mandate to Achievement is exactly the book I required as a principal! Our school struggled through missteps in curriculum alignment and implementing common assessments without the benefit of Makas’ wisdom and experience. I highly recommend this book for teachers, administrators, and interested parents.”

Robert A. Martin, Leadership Consultant

Oakland Schools, Waterford, MI

"This is definitely a how-to book with helpful pacing guides and plenty of strategies for implementing the ideas presented."

Laurie Emery, Principal

Old Vail Middle School, Vail, AZ

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