NELP Standard 4: Learning and Instruction

Week 2: Curriculum Alignment and Planning as an Instructional Leader

NELP Standard 4: Learning and Instruction

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, data systems, supports, and assessment.

Component 4.1 Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to evaluate,

develop, and implement high-quality, technology-rich curricula programs and other supports for

academic and non-academic student programs. 

PSEL 4: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Effective educational leaders develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Texas Principal Standards Pillar: Curriculum Alignment

Principal Domain and Competency

Domain II: Leading Learning

Competency 3

Competency 4 

Course-level Objectives (CLOs)

1. Develop a fundamental understanding of instructional leadership. (Evaluating) (CLO1)
2. Identify and interpret core elements of curriculum alignment used to improve student achievement (Knowledge & Analyzing) (CLO2)
3. Analyze and evaluate data to drive instruction. (Analyzing) (CLO3)
4. Formulate a professional development plan applying data driven decision making. (Creating) (CLO4)
5. Exemplify requisite credentials and program requirements. (Understanding) (CLO5)

Week 2 Learning Objectives (W2LO):

1. W2LO1: (CLO1) Examine the role of an instructional leader through the examination of state and district standards for curriculum alignment.
2. W2LO2: (CLO2) Explore and analyze the core elements of curriculum alignment to improve student achievement.
3. W2LO3: (CLO2) Facilitate the planning development of curriculum alignment through instructional alignment, assignment alignment, benchmark alignment, and rubric alignment.
4. W2LO4: (CLO2) Cultivate the importance of planning and curriculum to improve alignment through professional development that promotes student rigor on a campus.

Overview:

In Week 1 of this course you examined a framework called the Instructional Core to help instructional leaders understand that curriculum, instruction, and the learner are interrelated. Now in Week 2, you will focus on curriculum and examine both external accountability (state curriculum requirements including content standards and assessments) and internal accountability (alignment of curriculum standards, course content and assessments). Rigor in content, assessments, and learning activities is a priority when aligning and planning curriculum for instructional leaders of the 21^st century. 

Resources:

Week 2 Readings: Be sure you are logged into Blackboard in order to access all of the readings from these links. 

1. Lunenburg, F. C. (2010, September). The principal as instructional leader. In National forum of educational and supervision journal (Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 1-7).

http://www.nationalforum.com/Electronic%20Journal%20Volumes/Lunenburg,%20Fred%20C.%20The%20Principal%20as%20Instructional%20Leader%20NFEASJ%20V27%20N4%202010.pdf

2. EL Education Core Practices. (2017) (n.d.). Retrieved from https://eleducation.org/resources/core-practices-beta-version-2017. p.16 & 76

https://eleducation.org/uploads/downloads/ELED-CorePractices-1115.pdf

3. Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation (CSAI), & WestEd. (2018). Standards Alignment to Curriculum and Assessment. CSAI Update. Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation. Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation. Retrieved from

https://libproxy.lamar.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED588503&site=eds-live

4. Desravines, J., Aquino, J., & Fenton, B. (2016). Breakthrough principals: A step-by-step guide to building stronger schools. John Wiley & Sons. 51-67

Bambrick-Santoyo, P. (2018). Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools. John Wiley & Sons. p.1-21, 89-125.