Recommendation 4: Management

Recommendation Manager

Marvin Connelly, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services

Mid-point Update

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Strategic Directive

Linked to Learning and Teaching

The Auditors Recommended:

“Develop and document a comprehensive curriculum management process. Revise curriculum resources/documents to meet audit criteria and provide improved quality control. Develop single-source primary curriculum guides, and streamline online documents to guide instruction and assessments. Continue use of revised online resources, facilitate access by all staff, and continue the training of administrators and teachers in effective and efficient use of these resources.” (p. 356)

What This Means To The Community:

Recommendation 4 is largely focused on the Wake County Board of Education and the Superintendent. Recommendation 4, in turn, focuses on the Superintendent and the rest of the WCPSS administration. It calls on WCPSS to actively manage its curriculum -- to guide, align and coordinate WCPSS resources to ensure the quality and effectiveness of our instruction to students in every school.

Individual Action Steps

A.4.1 Assist the board in the development of the policies. (p. 358)
A.4.2 Write procedures that support the new policies and communicate them. (p. 358)

G.4.4 Establish through policy direction that curriculum and assessment are system-wide decisions. Instructional method, supplementary resource selection and strategies are school-based decisions. (Administration)

A.4.3 Establish system-wide understanding that curriculum and assessment decisions are central decisions. Clarify what decisions are site-based and teacher-based

Monitor implementation
Clarify how supplemental and elective decisions can be made (p. 358)

G.4.1 Direct the Superintendent to design a comprehensive district management plan. (Administration)

A.4.4 Design a comprehensive curriculum plan (11 elements). (p. 358)

A.4.5 Design and implement a single-source user-friendly curriculum guide format. Follow process steps (7). (p. 359)
A.4.6 Address the problems of internal consistency and cognitive complexity in guides and current resources. (p. 359)
A.4.7 Include local objectives to clarify and provide additional specificity to NC SCoS objectives. (p. 360)
A.4.8 Undertake an analysis and revision of the current website collection of resources. (p. 360)
A.4.9 Establish a common, more accurate vocabulary. (p. 360)
A.4.10 Continue to focus staff development on the implementation of the curriculum. (p. 361)
G.4.5 Require the Superintendent to submit periodic reports on curriculum development, assessment results, revision of curriculum resources, and how curriculum is modified to attain high achievement for all. (Administration)

Legend

Light blue text indicates completed items.
Item numbers that begin with "A" are action steps assigned to staff by the CMA.
Item numbers that begin with "G" are action steps assigned to the Board of Education by the CMA, that the Board has reassigned to staff.
Items bounded by a thin box are being treated by staff as a single action step.