The Denmark School District strives to provide the highest level of educational programming to ensure student success within school and beyond.  To this end, the curriculum shall be developed, evaluated, and adopted on a continuing basis and in accordance with a plan for curriculum growth.

The Denmark School District's Curriculum and Standards provide instruction in courses consistent with all applicable State and Federal regulations and are consistent with the District's philosophy and goals and ensure the possibility of their achievement.  Our curriculum and programs allow for the development of individual talents and interests, recognize that learning styles of students may differ, and provide a strategy for continuous and cumulative learning through effective articulation at all levels, particularly of those skills identified as essential and life-role skills.

Below you'll find information pertaining to our district's approach to universal instruction, continuous improvement, student support, and assessment.

Lance Grishaber
Director of Teaching and Learning
920.863.4176
grishaberl@denmark.k12.wi.us

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.

The Denmark School District engages in Continuous Improvement as a promise to deliver a guaranteed and viable curriculum, provide highly effective universal instructional for all students, and engage in a focused response to student learning.  Through a cycle of continuous improvement and strategic planning, the Department of Teaching and Learning in the Denmark School District strives to live its Mission to provide the highest level of educational programming to ensure students success within school and beyond.

This means:

• All students have access to the curriculum and access to instruction that provides multiple entry points to grade-level curriculum.

• All students have multiple ways to demonstrate their learning.

• Staff can deliver quality content with engaging learning opportunities for all.

• The district can refine placement practices to encourage access to course offerings.

• The district provides multi-levels systems of support and enrichment.

• The district can assess progress toward its goals and refine approaches where needed, including identifying necessary changes to programming, materials, course offerings, etc.

Act 20 requires each school district to articulate and post an early literacy remediation plan that includes all of the following:

• The name of the diagnostic reading assessment the school districts uses

• A description of the reading interventions the school district uses to address characteristics of dyslexia

• A description of how the school district monitors pupil progress during interventions, including the tools used and their frequency

• A description of how the school district uses early literacy assessment results to evaluate early literacy instruction

• A description of the parent notification policy that complies with Act 20.

Click the image to the left to view the Denmark School District Early Literacy Remediation Plan.