Instructional Services
Services and activities provided by our department can be divided into four overarching categories:
- Student and School Success
- Consultation and Coordination
- Direct Programming and
- Special Initiatives
Each focuses on the need to assist/enable local constituent districts with the issues of:
- Restructuring/School Improvement
- Instructional improvement for increased student learning and achievement, Curriculum Mapping, Revision, and Development
- New legislation and guidelines (including Education ?Yes? and No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
- Enhanced content area awareness and expertise
1. Student and School Success Initiatives
- Restructuring strategies
- School Improvement and accreditation strategies and implementation
- New models for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and delivery
- Expanded opportunities through differentiated instruction
- Research based projects/strategies/systems
2. Consultation/Coordination
- One-on-one or group consultation (special expertise in literacy, social studies, early childhood, language arts, math/science, assessment, health education curriculum, and advanced and accelerated learners education)
- Coordination of special interest groups
- Coordination of special county-wide projects
- Liaison with other ISDs and the State Department of Education
- Networking, sharing of best practices, curriculum/instruction/assessment collaboration
