SELF Competencies: Principal Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: Cultivate high expectations and ensure equitable and durable academic, civic, and social-emotional learning outcomes for students and adults.

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Develop intellectually rigorous and coherent school-wide systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to achieve the school’s equity vision.

Indicators

• Instructional expertise: Demonstrate foundational knowledge of common core standards and other adopted learning standards.

• Curriculum design and implementation: Ensure strategic selection and implementation of intellectually challenging and relevant curriculum and daily and long-term planning in all classrooms.

• Equity-focused pedagogy: Model for educators instructional practice that is consistent with knowledge of child and adolescent development and effective and culturally responsive pedagogy.

• Instructional alignment: Lead analysis of alignment of standards, curricula, pedagogy, and assessments.

Evidence of Impact

• Lesson plans, unit plans, and curricular materials demonstrate alignment to common core content standards and English Language Development standards, as well as to district-adopted curriculum.

• Instructional decisions throughout the year, including student grouping/differentiation and targeting for interventions, are based on periodic assessments, classroom tests, and teacher-designed tests.

• All students experience academically challenging and culturally responsive course content.

• Teachers are seen to adjust instructional practices based on implementation of systems to monitor  student progress.

• Effective teaching practices are implemented and are consistent across classrooms.