CoherantApproachtoHighSchoolImprovement


 * A Coherant Approach to High School Improvement:**
 * A School and District Needs Assessment Tool**
 * Rigorous Curriculum and Instruction - Characters of Effectiveness
 * align curriculum and instruction to local, district, state and national standards that look toward the depth of knowledge, skills and abilities needed for students to thrive in emerging economic, citizenship and community contexts
 * implement high-quality standards within the curricula
 * organize curriculum and instruction around student instructional neeeds and align with instruction in other content areas to support thematic and project-based learning, tiered instruction, etc...
 * align curriculum and courses vertically to ensure that students possess necessary prerequisite content knowledge and cognitive skills
 * organize curriculum and instruction to adapt easily to a variety of high school organizational structures
 * integrate new standards with existing school curricula and instruction
 * incoporate multiple research-based high school instructional strategies - such as scaffolding, differentiated instruction, and double dosing - for all students, including those with special instructional needs.
 * implement continous progress monitoring/formative assessment and differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students.