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The Wauwatosa School District prides itself on offering students every opportunity to succeed in the classroom. To assure that students are reaching their full academic potential, the School Board recently commissioned Phi Delta Kappa International to complete a Curriculum Management Audit.
A curriculum audit is designed to reveal the extent to which officials and professional staff of a school district have developed and implemented a sound, valid and operational system of curriculum management. Such a system, set within the framework of adopted board policies, enables the school district to make maximum use of its human and financial resources in the education of its students. When such a system is fully operational, it assures the district taxpayers that their fiscal support is optimized under the conditions in which the school district functions.
This page contains information related to the curriculum audit. Updates will be posted on a regular basis as the district continues to work toward improving student achievement.
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Detailed Progress Report
Click here to view actions that have been completed, are currently being completed and have been designed as first-year priorities.
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Progress by Recommendation Area
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| Recommendation 1 |
Effective Planning | Revise planning efforts to provide clear direction, coordination, prioritization and sequencing of all initiatives at all levels of the system. Require consistent monitoring and reporting of progress on all plans to key stakeholders to promote accountability and alignment to district goals. |
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| Recommendation 2 |
Curriculum Management | Revise and formalize curriculum management processes to provide districtwide direction for the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of quality aligned curriculum for all subjects taught. |
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| Recommendation 3 |
Equity | Accelerate progress in overcoming system inequities and inequalities based on ethnicity, gender, disability and socioeconomic status as one of the districtwide initiatives in the planning process. |
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| Recommendation 4 |
Professional Development | Establish a centralized professional development program that provides coordinated training in the essential competencies for the effective delivery of the written curriculum, including institutionalization of district expectations for best practices. |
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| Recommendation 5 |
Assessment | Implement and support through adequate staff development a balanced assessment system, coupled with procedures to use the data to guide instructional decisions, for initiation, revision, continuation or elimination of classroom, school and district practices, programs and interventions. |
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| Recommendation 6 |
Organization | Develop an organization chart with corresponding written job descriptions and appraisals that will provide sound management with focus on the design and delivery curriculum. |
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| Recommendation 7 |
Budget Process | Develop and implement a budgeting process that aligns district and building level resources to curricular goals and strategic priorities. Include systematic cost-benefit analysis using assessment data to assure that expenditures are producing desired results and are directed to the areas of greatest need. |
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