Beyond Textbooks
This year our teachers are using a new digital curriculum resource called Beyond Textbooks. Beyond Textbooks gives our teachers the tools for planning instruction, assessing student progress and collaborating with colleagues.
Beyond Textbooks Components:
Essential Standards tell us what the students must learn before they leave the current grade.
Unwrapped Documents summarize the rigor, big ideas, essential questions and evidence of mastery.
Curriculum Calendars keep teachers and students on track for academic success.
Formative Assessments are short assessments to monitor mastery of a concept.
Why Beyond Textbooks?
· Provides a common starting point for all teachers
· Teachers able to plan together
· Teachers across the district are teaching the same Essential Standards to the same degree of rigor
· All the Essential Standards are scheduled before the AIMS test
· Teachers able to share curriculum resources throughout the district and throughout Arizona
Schoolwide Title I
Our District receives Title I funds to support student achievement at our schools. These funds come from the federal government based on how many of our students qualify for free or reduced lunch prices.
All three of our schools were Title I “Targeted Assistance” schools. This meant that our Title I program provided additional support for students struggling in reading and math.
Last year, all three of our schools went through a yearlong process to transition to “Schoolwide” Title I. The teams created a school improvement plan.
A “Schoolwide” program allows our schools to support all the students at the school by upgrading programs and services to the entire student population. Additional support will continue to be offered to students who need them.
If you are interested in serving on our Title I Parent Advisory Committee, would like to see the school improvement plan or have any questions about “Schoolwide” Title I, please contact Melanie Cullen, 366-6204.