1. MCJC Schools Curriculum Plan Year One

2. Curriculum Goals Year One 2017-2018
Teachers will develop an understanding of stage one of the curriculum writing process (Planning—What do we want our students to learn)
Teachers will develop a beginning understanding of the role literacy plays in their content area.
The leadership team will commit to developing an understanding of the backwards design process

3. Training and Professional development Plan
August 2017
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will draw conclusions about big ideas from standards to generate enduring understandings for content area
Teachers will choose Power Standards from courses
Leadership team will begin a book study to delve deep into how to implement the curriculum process
Department co-chairs will begin a book study to master the curriculum design process

4. Training and Professional development Plan
September 2017
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will reflect on Power Standards and divide them into courses
Teachers will discuss what data might be used to determine whether correct Power Standards were chosen.
Teachers will begin to explore the idea of looking at data to choose literacy standards.
Leadership team will begin training on the curriculum process and implementation and work with Atlas to plan October PD
Co-chairs will begin training on the curriculum process
Lead teachers will help their teachers gather data to make decisions about Power Standards

5. Training and Professional development Plan
October Department Meetings 2017
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will bring data sources to meeting and determine whether correct Power Standards were chosen
Curriculum Team will bring summarized STAR reading data to help content area teachers choose one Power Standard for both reading and writing.
Leadership team will continue book study on the curriculum process and implementation, and continue working with Atlas on October PD
Co-chairs will begin continue book study on the curriculum process

6. Training and Professional development Plan
October Professional Development 2017
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
With the help of our Atlas team, teachers will work on refining their understanding of the Power Standards
With the help of our Atlas team, teachers will develop a process of breaking standards down into “I Can” statements
Leadership team will continue book study on the curriculum process and implementation
Co-chairs will begin continue book study on the curriculum process
Curriculum Team will finalize the “ standards break down process” and publish it in Atlas

7. Training and Professional development Plan
November 2017
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will follow the process for standards breakdown process to analyze Power Standards
Teachers will apply this process to other courses in their curriculum
Teachers will use the same process for literacy standards
Teachers will begin discussing what types of academic vocabulary may be taught in each unit
Leadership team and co-chairs will finalize book studies
Leadership team will use walk-through check sheets to set goals about the curriculum process for their teachers
Rubrics for essential questions and enduring understandings will be created.

8. Training and Professional development Plan
December 2017—January2018
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will finish up Power Standards work in courses
Teachers will begin choosing academic vocabulary in each unit
Conversation about creating essential questions and enduring understandings
Leadership team and co-chairs will hold discussion and assess the curriculum process so far

9. Training and Professional development Plan
February Department Meetings 2018
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will finish up Power Standards work in courses
Teachers will begin choosing academic vocabulary in each unit
Leadership team finalizes rubric for essential questions and enduring understandings
Leadership team and co-chairs continue conversation about the curriculum process and further training needed

10. Training and Professional development Plan
February Professional Development 2018
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will receive training of developing essential questions and enduring understandings
Teachers will work within Atlas to begin developing these items
Leadership team and co-chairs begin training for developing an assessment style guide and rubric

11. Training and Professional development Plan
March Department Meetings and PD 2018
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will work within Atlas to develop essential questions and enduring understandings for units in multiple courses
Leadership team and co-chairs continue to work on developing a process and rubric for creating assessments
Leadership team and co-chairs will begin to develop a process for training teachers on assessment design

12. Training and Professional development Plan
April Department Meetings 2018
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers begin conversations about how we will assess our units
Leadership team and co-chairs continue to work on developing a process and rubric for creating assessments
Leadership team and co-chairs will continue to develop a process for training teachers on assessment design

13. Training and Professional development Plan
May Department Meetings and PD 2018
Teacher Objectives
Leadership Objectives
Teachers will receive training on assessments and begin assessment design
Rubric for assessment design will be finalized
Curriculum Team holds conversation with co-chairs and leadership team about first year plan and progress
Leadership Team will refine and begin to plan for year 2
Conversation about year 3 will begin.

14. Leadership and Curriculum Team
Plan Measurements
Teachers
Leadership and Curriculum Team
Lead Teacher and Curriculum Team walk-throughs
OTES evaluation
Principal Evaluation
Teacher progress

15. Leadership and Curriculum Team
Plan Measurements
Teachers
Leadership and Curriculum Team
Lead Teacher and Curriculum Team walk-throughs
OTES evaluation
Principal Evaluation
Teacher progress