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Initiatives Aligned with Strategic Plan
Goal 2: Provide an Effective Instructional Program
Board of Education Priorities
- Align rigorous curriculum, delivery of instruction, and assessment for continuous improvement of student achievement
- Develop, expand, and deliver a literacy-based pre-kindergarten to Grade 2 initiative
- Use student, staff, school, and system performance data to monitor and improve student achievement
MCPS will implement the guidelines established in Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act. Data will be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, English proficiency, and economically disadvantaged status. Although Our Call to Action states that all students are expected to attain certain milestones, some students, due to their disabilities, will not achieve these milestones and will follow alternative curricula.
Curriculum and Instruction
- Implementation of a Standards-Based Curriculum
- Councils on Teaching and Learning
- Formative Assessments
- Curriculum Implementation Textbook Project
- Standards-Based Grading and Reporting System
- Information Literacy Skills
- Middle School Reform
- Skills for Success
- Mathematics Content Coaches
- Reading Specialists
- Reading Recovery®
- Secondary Literacy
- Fine Arts Education
- Arts Integrated Model Elementary Program
- System of Shared Accountability
- Increased Rigor
- Program Evaluations
- SAT Intervention Plan
- Honors and Advanced Placement (AP)
- Gifted and Talented Student Program Improvements
- Career and Technology Education Programs
Technology
- Technology for Curriculum Mastery (TCM)
- Digital Divide
- Integrated Quality Management System
- Data Warehouse
- Instructional Management System