Curriculum Services - Hortonville Area School District

Hortonville Area School District

Mission Statement
The Hortonville Area School District, in partnership with our community, will provide ALL students with challenging and diverse opportunities to become enthusiastic lifelong learners who will build the future.

Curriculum Services

Curriculum INFORMATION

Community members and parents can see an indepth view of out district's work in curriculum at this website:

http://hortonville.buildyourowncurriculum.com/public/Course_Search.aspx

Our philosophy is to be constantly working to improve our curriculum to refelct 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.

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

BYOC Resources

Click on the numbers and choose 720pHD

Alpine

Build Your Own Curriculum Login for teachers

Common Core Standards

We Learn Together -BYOC support videos

These short 2-4 minute videos are intended to assist teachers in using Build Your Own Curriculum COLLABORATIVELY to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum for all students. Please note: the videos are housed in Youtube, so if you are viewing within the district you MUST disable the content filter. ALSO, the resolution of these videos is high, so if it appears blurry you can change the resolution to 720p (hd) within YouTube.

Message from Dr. Schmidt

The Purpose of Writing Curriculum

BYOC Login

Creating a course

Creating a Unit

Creating Topics

NEW Writing a GOOD learning target

NEW Advanced Learning Targets with Rigor and Relevance

Align your learning targets to standards

Sample Peer Review Team Meeting

Standards Coverage report

Curriculum Writing Peer Review Process

Staff members will be informed of their curriculum writing teams. The team will include:
1. Staff members (the curriculum authors)
2. A colleague from outside department
3. Someone who teaches above OR below grade level (within your department if applicable)
The curriculum team previews the Build Your Own Curriculum (BYOC) course document, meets to discuss this document, and finally completes page 2 and 3 of this document as a team (one rubric turned in per team).
Upon review of the course, the curriculum team makes a recommendation for level of publication.
An administrator will sign off.

Seven Hour Requirement Reimbursement Form

Each INDIVIDUAL teacher must fill out the following information and submit this form to your building principal.

BYOC VERBS from R& R framework-PAGE 6

This document is an overview of the Rigor and Relevance Framework AND on page 6 it has verbs that you can use across the taxonomy.

BYOC Training Presentation August 2011

A standards based Education Presentation August 2011

Gifted and Talented Information

HHS integrated course information

MDAT home page - WKCE home page

The Multi-Dimensional Analytic Tool is a web-based application that allows authorized users to create reports that compare achievement over time in relation to WKCE data.

Additional resources:

Using MDAT

MDAT step-by-step guide

MDAT sample quiries