Indicator+2

INDICATOR 2
2. The curriculum is written in a common format that includes:
 * units of study with essential questions, concepts, content, and skills
 * the school’s 21st century learning expectations
 * instructional strategies
 * assessment practices that include the use of school-wide analytic and course-specific rubrics.

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//**Post your narrative below. You may update it any time.**// PRELIMINARY NARRATIVE FOR INDICATOR TWO CURRICULUM __The curriculum is written in a common format that includes: units of study with essential questions, concepts, content, and skills; the school’s 21st century learning expectations; instructional strategies; and assessment practices that include the use of school-wide analytical and course specific rubrics.__ The vast majority of the disciplines within the curriculum use a curriculum template for most courses which includes essential questions, concepts, content and skills. Although there are small discrepancies within individual curricula in terms of formatting, the general picture at this point looks good. The same is true for the inclusion of the school’s 21st century learning expectations. With some exceptions, the overall curriculum includes instructional strategies and assessment practices that include the use of school-wide analytical rubrics and course specific rubrics. The major exception would be the Science curriculum which is confusingly organized and exceptionally long. The essential questions are basically mastery level objectives and there were numerous inconsistencies. The Music and Physical Education curricula were missing instructional strategies and assessments, including the use of school-wide rubrics, in some areas. Also, of note, was the unavailability of the Vocational offerings at EHS.