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Improving the Educational Process
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Aligned·By·Design
solves fundamental and complex educational
problems to achieve and sustain high rates of
student achievement.
Thoughtful and detailed analysis of the
educational enterprise resulted in the
A·B·D system which offers a
system-wide solution that fits all the
educational pieces together in to a
unified solution for success.
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The
Aligned·By·Design
system allows any State Department of Education to
achieve its visionary goals by:
a) Enabling it to refine and present State Standards at
their primitive, Knowledge-linked, detailed level;
b) Providing a source of refined academic Standards that
can be easily and permanently aligned to both Curriculum
lesson plans and State Assessment items;
c) Providing all school districts access to the
A·B·D
system tools and processes;
d)
Providing
A·B·D
tools to Teachers for use at the classroom level.
Aligned·By·Design
allows States to promulgate Common Core and other State Standards and leaves no doubt or question as to what
needs to be learned and what is going to be assessed by
end-of-year tests. It answers the pressing question
facing teachers - “What am I really supposed to teach?”
With
Aligned·By·Design, everything is defined. It is fully descriptive
without being prescriptive, focusing on the delivery of Knowledge and skills,
not the generalized concepts.
Aligned·By·Design
allows States to easily develop complete, perfectly aligned instructional
Curriculum models and promulgate them to Districts and Teachers
for direct adoption and use, or adaptation and use, or
simply for use as a reference model of perfectly
aligned, classroom usable materials. At the same time,
A·B·D
functionality extends beyond the State and
offers Districts and Teachers the
tools and processes necessary to develop their own
completely aligned instructional Curriculum
independently or based on the State or other model
Curriculum.
As
Aligned·By·Design is implemented, Teachers require
less time and effort to prepare instructional curriculum
for use in the classroom. By utilizing content from
A·B·D
libraries and actually hosting the classroom curriculum
using the A·B·D
system, instructional curriculum is guaranteed to be
100% aligned.
Having clearly defined content Standards and the
Knowledge they represent,
Aligned·By·Design facilitates the natural
alignment of Standards, Curriculum and Assessments and
brings that alignment to the classroom.
A·B·D enables
a process of continuous improvement and provides the
mechanism for sustainment of hard earned incremental
improvements.
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