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Welcome to the United ISD
Department for Curriculum and Instruction. The department is
organized into five instructional branches: Elementary Education,
Secondary Education, Special Education, Instructional Accountability
and Campus Intervention. Each branch is led by an Executive
Director. Together the instructional team guides and empowers all
instructional directors, coordinators, and support staff ensuring
effective, efficient, instructional support to all UISD campuses.
The department is committed to
the continuous improvement of the PK-12th grade TEKS
based, learner centered, aligned scope and sequence for all core
areas. All teachers are expected to adhere to the scope and
sequence as a means of ensuring a comprehensive sequential delivery
of instruction throughout UISD.
The department has reached the
desired alignment between the taught TEKS Curriculum, and the tested
TAKS Curriculum through the development of 3T’s – TEKS Targeted
Tests. The revised 3T assessments will provide timely feedback for
early intervention and accelerated academic success for all
students.
Both the scope and sequences
and the 3T’s will continue contributing to the attainment of the
following instructional goal: Provide consistent quality TEKS
based instruction and/or an alternative curriculum for all students,
resulting in improved student achievement. In addition, the
emphasis on learner centered instruction and highly effective
questioning will reinstitute an excitement for learning in a
nurturing environment. To ensure consistent quality instruction in
every UISD classroom all teacher staff development will focus on
instructional accountability/meeting the needs of diverse learners.
In addition, the following UISD goals
increase participation in advanced academic courses/dual credit
courses with successful completion and increase the number of
advanced placement exams with qualifying scores of three or above
and to increase the participation at SAT preparation opportunities
resulting in increased average SAT/ACT scores will
focus on encouraging students to achieve at their maximum potential.
A comprehensive Apex Review and Sure Score Plan will prepare
students through integrated classroom instruction and zero
hour/Saturday PSAT/SAT/AP preparatory opportunities.
In the 2009-2010 school year we will renew our commitment to
creating responsive learning environments. We will put Reading First
in every PK-12 classroom by explicitly teaching phonological and
phonemic awareness, decoding and word recognition, fluency, academic
vocabulary, and comprehension. In addition we will strengthen all
students’ reading ability by providing reading materials within each
students’ Lexile measure. In addition we will increase the fidelity
of our implementation of the three tiered model of interventions
with continuous differentiation to meet each students’ needs. We
will continue to engage all students in rigorous and relevant
learning through Highly Effective Questioning resulting in a culture
of engaged critical thinkers and we will work diligently to
implement all these effective strategies with “pedagogical
automaticity”. (Jane Pollock)
I congratulate our six exemplary campuses, Amparo Gutierrez
Elementary, Col. Santos Benavides Elementary, Juarez-Lincoln
Elementary, Malakoff Elementary, Trautmann Elementary, U. D.D.
Hachar Elementary and our eighteen recognized campuses, Alexander
High School, Arndt Elementary, Bonnie Garcia Elementary, Borchers
Elementary, Centeno Elementary, Clark Elementary, Cuellar
Elementary, de Llano Elementary, Fasken Elementary, Finley
Elementary, Kazen Elementary, Kennedy-Zapata Elementary, Killam
Elementary, Muller Elementary, Newman Elementary, Nye Elementary,
Perez Elementary and United High School. I am confident that through
outstanding campus leadership and the delivery of quality
instruction from all teachers United ISD will claim the honorable
distinction of being a 2010 recognized
school district!
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