Mission
The mission of the Denmark School District is to provide the highest level of educational programming to ensure student success within school and beyond.
Vision
The Vision of the Denmark School District Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment is to engage in continuous, standards-based curriculum review and revision, provide high-quality and supportive professional learning, and implement a balanced and strategic assessment system to create enriching and highly effective learning experiences for all students.
Our Department Will:
- Use district adopted standards-based curriculum and instructional materials.
- Use collaboratively agreed upon standards-based learning intentions and success criteria as unit and lesson foundation.
- Provide success criteria that describes how students will demonstrate they understand the learning.
Our Staff Will:
- Set high and demanding academic expectations for every student.
- Promote a safe classroom culture that fosters positive relationships.
- Incorporate instructional intentions into daily lessons, requiring students to explain in their own words.
- Demonstrate success criteria by providing models of both strong and weak work, rubrics, checklists, etc.
- Use instructional strategies/techniques that elicit evidence of student learning in relation to the instructional intentions.
Our Students Will:
- Engage in learning activities that check for understanding of identified learning intentions.
- Receive scaffolding for support so all students can achieve the lesson intention(s).
- Hear both positive and corrective feedback directly aligned to achievement of learning intentions.
- Use feedback to support student self-monitoring.
- Drive their own learning through inquiry and engineering practices.
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