Guaranteed & Viable Curriculum: The Teaching-Learning Cycle

Research agrees that the single most influential thing a school or district can to to impact student learning is to have a guaranteed and viable curriculum. “A guaranteed and viable curriculum gives students access to the same essential learning regardless of who is teaching the class and can be taught in the time allotted. (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker & Many, 2010)." The provision of a guaranteed and viable curriculum is one of our district goals. To get to a guaranteed and viable curriculum, we use the teaching-learning cycle and these steps:

• Identifying essentials
  • Agenda for identifying essentials
  • Slides explaining essentials
  • Link to collection of standards documents and previous essentials work
  • Link to assessment information (password protected; use the common password)
  • Agenda for unpacking/unwrapping (organizer)
  • Agenda for developing "I Can" statements
• Common formative assessment development
  • October 19 slides from Ginny Mahlke
• Protocol for looking at student work (archived inforamtion about the 3A protocol)
  • Blank 3A template (make a copy for your use)
  • Template with directions in it
  • Directions for the 3A process
  • Math 3 example
  • Earth Science example
  • ELA 9 example
  • Flipped example (automated scoring of questions assigns intervention for student)
• TTCT Notetaking Form (current; make a copy for your use)
• Data Tracking
  • Three-levels template example (Got it - Almost - Not yet)
  • Sheets template example with assess/reassess columns
  • Sheets template example with conditional color formatting
  • Lesson Plan/Tracker Combo template