Aligning Resources to Standards

We met for an all-team training meeting in Overland Park (thanks for hosting us Johnson County Community College) and talked about the work each program had completed, unpacking portions of the Kansas Math Content Standards.   Then. participants learned how to align program curriculum resources with the standards we unpacked.  When learning the aligning curriculum process, the team had an in-depth discussion about the process and whether or not programs should align resources by level.  In the end, the consensus was to align each resource for the associated appropriate content area and where standards cross multiple
levels, note which level(s) the resource was reviewed and aligned to address.

The work from both phases is due June 15…so hopefully everyone can enjoy a few days of summer with the first innovation of SIA completed! I will also post reflections from the team members regarding the SIA project and the first innovation then….look for them shortly after the 15th.

Our next in person Eagle team meeting is not until October 1 in Overland Park…let’s keep in touch between now and then!

July kicks off Innovation 1 for the Meadowlark team.  The team will be working with the Reading content standards for ABE and ESL—over 100 of them!  I’ll share who the team members will be in a later blog…SIA could be coming to a program where YOU are! Also in July, the state SIA implementation team has a national webinar on how to assess and build the argument for sustainability of the SIA innovations in Kansas.

And then in August, it’s back to DC for the SIA project leads to learn about exciting Innovation 2—Translating Standards into Curriculum: The Lead Standards Approach.

So much to learn…but take time to enjoy the end of the program year and don’t forget to celebrate the work you do each day and the learner’s lives you forever improve!

Michelle