Our philosophy is to be constantly working to improve our curriculum to reflect best practice in education.  The Hortonville Area school district dedicates professional development time to ensure we have a cycle of ever improving curriculum for our students.  When writing curriculum our teachers apply the four lenses of Technology, Differentiation, Rigor and Relevance and 21st Century Learning skills to ensure a high level of student engagement and achievement. For the 2015-16 school year, our district will be adopting the Common Core State Standards for Math and English Language Arts, Next Generation Science Standards for Science, and Wisconsin State Standards for all other content areas.

Additional information about of district practices can be obtained by calling the Curriculum office at (920)779-7901 and asking for Chris Hansen.

The Hortonville Area School District is celebrating being recognized by Solution Tree as the first model PLC district in Wisconsin. Great job to all HASD staff for reaching this goal! For more information, check out the website: http://www.allthingsplc.info/plc-locator/us

Standards Based Grading

• What are Essential Standards

Research

• What does the research say about standards-based grading? [Townsley & Buckmiller white paper]
• A comprehensive list of scholarly standards-based grading articles [Frequently updated]
• Top 10 standards-based grading articles

Additional Reading

• Top 10 standards-based grading books

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: District and School Report Cards

Wisconsin Information System for Education (WISE)

WISEdash is a data portal that uses "dashboards," or visual collections of graphs and tables, to provide multi-year education data about Wisconsin schools. As a public reporting tool, WISEdash will be used by districts, schools, parents, researchers, media, and other community members to view data published by DPI.