Feedback Needed: Literacy Curriculum Review
All curricular areas engage in a review process in order to ensure that students have the most effective learning experience along with access to the most up-to-date and research-based resources. This year, the district’s literacy curriculum will begin the process of a full review. Literacy curriculum includes learning to read, write, speak and listen and also how to use reading and listening to learn and writing and speaking to communicate learning. The review will evaluate which standards teachers think should be prioritized from the Iowa Core for each grade level and/or course. In addition, it will clarify what it means to meet those prioritized standards and engage in an in-depth review of what science currently says are best practices in literacy instruction. The review will also evaluate the most appropriate resources to use when engaging students in those best practices of instruction.
We are seeking community input in order to gather information from all stakeholders about the current state of the literacy curriculum, as well as what the community is looking for in future literacy learning and implementation. Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions. Your answers will be reviewed by the curriculum advisory team and used to develop goals for our future delivery of literacy instruction.
Thank you so much for your time and participation. The review will begin February of 2023 with initial implementation anticipated to begin in the Fall of 2025.