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Papillion La Vista assistant superintendent outlines how the district develops curriculum
Summary
Dr. Shereen Suri, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning for Papillion La Vista Community Schools, explains that curriculum includes state standards, instructional philosophy, resources and assessments; PLCS uses a collaborative "toolbox" process and a seven-year adoption cycle, with out-of-cycle updates for state law or data-driven concerns.
Dr. Shereen Suri, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning for Papillion La Vista Community Schools, described how the district defines and develops its curriculum in a Mindshift podcast episode.
"The curriculum consists of the standards or what you could call the objectives, the essential learnings, what we want our students to learn," Suri said, adding that textbooks are only one part of that larger set of materials, which also includes instructional philosophy, classroom activities and assessments.
Suri said Papillion La Vista adopts the Nebraska state standards and that the standards set what students are guaranteed to learn across the state. "The part that is different is the art of teaching," she said,…
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