| Aligned By Design Initiative Information |
“We need solid,
unimpeachable information that identifies what’s working and what’s not
working in our schools,”
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
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In today’s
economically challenging and high-stakes student
performance environment, school district leaders and
school administrators need:
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Effective, real-time solutions designed to meet
accountability and budgetary pressures and enable
long-term objective success
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Integrated solutions tailored to meet the unique
needs of each district and school as well as
state-level performance expectations
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Dynamic, cost-effective solutions that leverage
existing investments and provide data-rich
information
To
effectively support teachers, parents and students and
successfully meet operating and standards-based
instructional improvement objectives, district and
school administrator require four common areas of focus,
including:
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Greater specification of and support for
standards-aligned curriculum
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Better quality professional development for teachers
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Strengthening the instructional leadership skills of
principals
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Access to real-time performance and other data to
guide instructional decisions
The
Aligned·By·Design Model meets each of
these and other critical education needs by:
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Leveraging technology to make it feasible for
national leaders, states agencies, school districts,
schools and teachers to work in a unified way to
achieve and sustain student achievement
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Providing educators with a knowledge-centric
approach, which makes developing, aligning and
maintaining finely detailed standards, content-rich
instructional curriculum and fully integrated
assessments a reality
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Extending the capability of the system’s tools and
processes to the teacher for customizing standards
and assessment aligned with content-rich classroom
materials
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Enabling administrators and teachers with real-time
data support and communications to assess learning
progress and develop active strategies for ongoing
achievement gap closure
The Model’s unified structure, advanced technology and
integrated approach enables district and school leaders
to identify and assist lower performing schools and
classrooms with a proven turn-around formula to help
them improve results and maintain performance
improvement.
In the process, the system facilitates a new norm of
incremental, continuous and sustainable student
achievement improvement by all schools and in all
classrooms.
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learn more about how the
Aligned·By·Design
Initiative
supports district and school leaders and enables improved schools and
student achievement, please
contact us.
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Enabling Common Core State Standards Initiative Success
State and local administrators and teachers recognize that the pending
disparities between the common core state standards and existing state content
standards, the formal and taught curriculum, and assessments in the day-to-day
classroom activities are significant and serious...
more
No state has assured the alignment of its classroom instruction and teaching
materials to their content standards and assessments. The lack of a truly
aligned state model has consistently limited state, school district and teacher
efforts to achieve student learning...
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