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District outlines multi‑year curriculum cycle, teacher‑led reviews and vendor timeline for 2025–26
Summary
West Bend School District staff presented a seven‑phase curriculum cycle and a teacher‑led review process for 2025–26, including timelines for vendor presentations, expected resource recommendations and multi‑year implementation plans for new materials such as CKLA and Illustrative Math.
Kelly Downs, the district’s director of curriculum and instruction, presented the curriculum committee on Sept. 2 with the district’s multi‑phase curriculum cycle and an updated timeline for 2025–26 work.
Downs said the district uses a four‑stage model (evaluate; develop and design, which has two pathways; implement; assess and refine) embedded in a seven‑year curriculum cycle. The process is explicitly teacher‑led: content teams of teachers, supported by two rotating facilitators and a designated administrator, produce deliverables at each phase and make recommendations to the district.
Why it matters: the district is reconfiguring grade spans (for example, Badger is planned to become a Grade 6–8 middle school) and will adopt or revise multiple content resources over the next year. Those decisions will affect classroom instruction, professional development schedules and, in some cases, assessment and grading protocols.
Downs described the evaluate…
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