Unatego Central School District’s curriculum and instruction guides serve as strategic roadmaps for our district’s PK-12 education. These guides organize the academic year into a cohesive structure.
Unatego Central School District’s curriculum and instruction guides streamline the educational process by incorporating several key components:
- Monthly Pacing and Topics: Maps out the academic year to ensure the curriculum is delivered consistently across all classrooms, and covers NYSED learning standards.
- Vertical and Horizontal Alignment: This technical term refers to ensuring that learning builds logically from one grade to the next (vertical) and remains consistent across all classrooms within the same grade level (horizontal).
- Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies: Identifies proven teaching methods to support effective delivery and student engagement.
- Comprehensive Assessments: Utilizes both formative and summative measures to accurately track and verify student mastery of the material.
- Academic Vocabulary: Integration of high-leverage language to ensure students are explicitly taught the terminology necessary for success in their specific disciplines.
- NYSED Portrait of a Graduate Integration: Explicitly identifies opportunities within the curriculum to cultivate essential 21st-century facets—such as critical thinking, cultural competence, and effective communication—ensuring that daily instruction develops the "whole child" in alignment with state-wide learner profiles.