The research is clear. Building your district’s curriculum around student assessment data is the key to improving student learning.

The role of CESA 6 Curriculum and Instructional Services Center is to provide leadership, structures, and support in the facilitation, development, implementation, and coordination of services that:

  • Embed 21st Century Learning Skills to a continuous improvement model
  • Assist districts with comprehensive planning to move learning initiatives forward
  • Promote tools and processes that foster data analysis and decision-making
  • Provide comprehensive standards-based curriculum, instruction, assessment and feedback programming to districts (i.e. grade level/course benchmarks, benchmark assessments, scoring to benchmarks, unit design, curriculum mapping)
  • Facilitate a variety of staff development (graduate courses) opportunities based on research and best practices: high school redesign, differentiated instruction, assessment literacy, instructional strategies, unit design (UBD), and How To’s of 21st Century Learning. All courses are aligned to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards and Wisconsin Educator Standards
  • Lead district, building, and individual staff development planning Train administrative teams in best practices regarding effective instructional feedback and supervision and evaluation
  • Support the planning and implementation of L4L

For more information about this service contact:
Cheryl Simonson
Coordinator of Curriculum and Assessment
csimonson@cesa6.org