Indicator 9

The professional staff shall be actively involved in the ongoing development, evaluation, and revision of the curriculum based on assessments of student performance in achieving the school's academic expectations and course-specific learning goals.
 

What to Look for:
 

Is the curriculum reviewed, revised, and refined on the basis of ongoing data collection and assessments of student learning? Do teachers work together collaboratively to develop and revise curriculum?

• the school utilizes assessments which specifically measure student performance on the school-wide academic expectations and course-specific learning goals
• an ongoing review, development, evaluation, and revision cycle has been implemented that ensures all curriculum is reviewed at least every five years
• teachers meet regularly with instructional leaders to review the success of their curriculum and instructional practices in meeting school-wide expectations as well as subject-specific outcomes
• data are collected in a systematic way to inform these review processes; sources include local assessments of student performance related to school-wide expectations and course-specific expectations, state standardized test results, local writing samples, district-wide test results, department-wide assessment results, classroom assessment results, survey results, identified gaps/equity gaps, portfolios, student exhibitions, etc.
• all teachers are involved in developing, evaluating, and revising curriculum and are given formal opportunities to accomplish this important work through a variety of formal and informal collaborative opportunities both within and across departments