Texas Vision Statement

Incorporating the Texas essential knowledge and skills to the districts academic curriculum is a course of action that requires curriculum writers to carefully align the fundamental principles of the each subject area making it possible for teachers can map their curriculum and develop the lesson plans. In this session, teachers will be divided into groups by grade level and subject area. This will be a two-part session. First, teachers will be given copies of the Texas essential knowledge and skills and the state test. Each group will look at the testing objectives and make a three month calendar aligning the testing objectives, state standards, and curriculum to reflect the skills and concepts needed for the student success. Second, the calendars must also show weekly assessment that will be given over the vocabulary and standards learned for that week. Teachers will develop a weekly objective chart that will track each student’s progress every week. This chart will be used to

First, each group will break down the mission and vision statements for the school. Teachers will evaluate on paper what are the ideas, philosophies, and values of the mission and vision statement. This evaluation when help teachers get to the core of why the mission and vision exists, the accomplishments that they hoped to achieve, and what the statements essentially stand for. Second, teachers will look at their break down of the mission and vision statement and determine how does it align with the curriculum. They will take into account the values of the curriculum and the values of the mission and vision statement as they determine their internal and external alignment. Internal alignment would be the language and standards reflected in the strategies of instruction and requirements performed. The external alignment would be the skillfulness and philosophy of the curricula reflected in the