Kankakee Dist. 111 to the Audit Curriculum, Instruction – Kankakee Daily Journal

Kankakee-time is a thorough view of curricula and educational practices in Kankake schools, according to the regional management.

Kankakee School District 111 is looking for a company to audit its area of ​​curriculum and instructions.

Companies’ proposals are about to be at noon on Friday. After receiving proposals and interviewing selected companies, the Kankakee School Council seems to approve the choice of auditor on March 10.

The audit will be performed in two phases. The first phase looking at the curriculum will be completed by the end of May. The second phase will look at the instruction, will be completed by the end of September.

The completed findings and audit recommendations will be presented in October to the regional leadership and then in November the school board.

A detailed request for proposals that the Council approved on January 13 is available on the area’s website.

Kelly Gilbert, assistant chief of the curriculum and instructions, said the purpose of the audit is to get the perspective of an external entity while reviewing the curriculum of the district and the curricula.

The audit will include analysis of general education, special education and English learning, among other programs.

The answers from the Thoughtexchange studies conducted during the transition of the Superintent Teresa Lance to the area reported perceptions of low expectations and instructions that were not aligned with class -level expectations.

Another factor encouraging the need for audit, said Gilbert, is that the most general summarized designations of “intensive” and “all -encompassing” were given to all but one of the schools in Kankake, evaluated in the last cycle of the Illinois State Council cards S

Sat results “gloomy”

“In high school, the best -in -law’s performance is grim,” Gilbert added. “In the 11th grade, we have only 7% of students who meet the skills in the arts in English and 2% in mathematics. We need to do better. “

Through their partnership with the new teacher project Gilbert and other administrators, they conduct classroom leaders.

It was noted that teachers reported goals and goals of training in 38% of 78 observed classrooms. Meanwhile, about half of the observed classrooms had specific expectations for students’ education, and 36% had a content scaffold and were presented in many ways.

“We just have a lot of quality and quantitative data that tell us we need to take a step back and review the curriculum we have,” Gilbert said.

The aim is to ensure that the curriculum and expectations for students are brought to the state and national standards, the materials used are strict and the practices meet the needs of the students, she said.

“The data suggest we have a gap in this process,” Gilbert said.

The phase of the curriculum will look at things like the materials used for teaching, scope and sequence in which the materials are used during the school year and how lessons are developed.

Auditors will also meet with focus group talk teachers about how they think the curriculum works for students.

“Raising the teacher’s voice is part of it,” Gilbert said.

The instructions phase will look more about what practices are used to teach the curriculum and how effective they are.

There may be disadvantages in each area; The instruction of the area may be strong, but its curriculum may be weak or vice versa.

Gilbert said the area currently does not have a cycle to review the curriculum. He had a process at one point, but was not followed by two to three years.

“This is another area that we have to return to focus,” she said.

Most areas are reviewing the curriculum in five -year cycles, with different subjects being viewed at different times.

“This must be a process of continuous improvement,” she said.

While a new curriculum has been adopted in the last few years, there has been no process of viewing the bigger picture, Gilbert said.

“The audits have not always been performed, but the process of reviewing the curriculum must be completed,” she said. “We have to do the audit because some of these processes are missing; This is to make sure that when we take the next steps, we do it with intensity. “