According to the roll-out plan, when will districts begin working on curriculum content and instruction?
The Iowa Department of Education (DE) is collaborating with area education agencies (AEAs) to provide a consistent, appropriately paced roll out of the Iowa Core Curriculum among Iowa’s school districts and accredited nonpublic schools. To do this, a network consisting of teams from each AEA has been established and is meeting monthly to plan and carry out the successful implementation of the Iowa Core Curriculum. The Network’s first step is to provide leadership capacity building to school leadership teams across each AEA. This will happen between now and spring 2009. Then the work of alignment of curriculum content, instruction, and assessment to the Iowa Core Curriculum will begin. Tools and protocols are currently being developed to facilitate this work. Local educators are encouraged to contact their AEA Network Lead prior to beginning any further work related to the Iowa Core Curriculum during this upcoming school year.
