This developing service offers support for districts wishing to use the State Education Department's template and materials for comprehensive district planning. Curriculum guides include alignment with New York State Standards, alignment with relevant national standards, course outlines, and sample lessons and assessments. Curriculum writers have access to technology consultants and training, SED representatives, and other content specialists. In the revised program, additional attention will be paid to follow up activities and monitoring, to ensure that benefits of curriculum writers efforts are maximized. Continue to collect data on student performance to monitor instruction across the year.
Participants attend two days of training in the summer and a few, after-school, follow up meetings.
Progress is monitored on the listserv, where participants can discuss their efforts. Participants become sophisticated practitioners in a results-driven instructional model. This program provides districts an opportunity to explore new programs and presenters before making long term commitments and to participate in sessions they may otherwise be unable to access. The presenters will be nationally or locally recognized leaders in education as identified by the component districts. This series is advised by the External Staff Developers Steering Committee, made up of a representative from each district.