The Pride
PHS Staff Bulletin November 18 - 23
Our Mission & Our Vision
Vision: To be a campus of EXPERT educators that work together to positively impact individual lives and improve our community by having 100% of our students graduate high school with a written actionable post-secondary plan.
Chapter 3: Transforming Curriculum
The Need for a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
"The concept of a guaranteed and viable curriculum was first introduced in the book What Works in Schools (Marzano, 2003) and was further developed in a number of later publications. By guaranteed, we mean that the same content is taught in all classrooms. To achieve this, the curriculum must provide "clear guidance regarding the content to be addressed in specific courses and at specific grade levels" (Marzano et al., 2014, p. 69). A prerequisite to a guaranteed curriculum is a viable curriculum--one with content that can be taught in the time available to teachers.
Collaborative teams and a guaranteed and viable curriculum have a symbiotic relationship. If one of the crucial objectives of the PLC process is to increase the quality of students' learning, then a guaranteed and viable curriculum is a foundational element to that mission. Given that a great deal of the collaborative team's work centers on monitoring teacher instruction and student achievement, it is imperative that the team's members have a clear understanding of what they will teach. Without a guaranteed and viable curriculum, assessment tasks and the measurements based on them become inconsistent, invalid, and unreliable. A guaranteed and viable curriculum can only be created, implemented, and sustained through collaborative effort, making this task ideal work for collaborative teams (DuFour & Marzano, 2011).
The creation of a guaranteed and viable curriculum has four steps, as follows.
- Identify essential content.
- Include cognitive and conative skills.
- Identify learning goals and objectives.
- Construct proficiency scales."
--excerpt from Collaborative Teams that Transform Schools,
Marzano, Heflebower, Hoegh, Warrick, and Grift
Weekly Calendar
Collaborative Team Spotlight--English II, Meagan Cook & Iliana Romo
From around our wonderful campus...
Mrs. Cook's Class
Silent Reading--Eng. III
Ms. Pacheco is Back!
Eng II Data Discussion
Biology Demo Lab
Office Pitts and Luis Araiza
The 'Golden P' spreads...
Happy Birthday to You!
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