Team Structure

Welcome to our learning community! District 102 values shared leadership and organized new governance that includes all stakeholders. District grade level teams, subject area teams and the oversight team called the Teaching and Learning Council work together and develop all academic programs, select the resources, and plan professional development. The attached file displays our comprehensive curriculum cycle and the relative initiatives of those groups for the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Designing Curriculum

Understanding by Design (UbD) is a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that leads students to deep understanding of the content.
UbD through ASCD
UbD Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

State Performance Standards

Illinois state standards and descriptions of grade level performance are used by Subject Area Learning Teams (SALT) teams as one source to guide our curriculum development in language arts, math, science, social science, social emotional learning, fine arts, and physical education.
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/Default.htm

English Language Learners (ELL)

Illinois Resource Council is a resource to schools and to families. This is the organization and expertise D102 uses to guide us in the area of ELL, TPI/TBE.
Illinois Resource Council
Jeanette Gordon, ELL Expert Senior Consultant

Reading-Writing Expert

Literacy expert Dr. Micheal Heggerty leads D102 in professional development around the critical areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Dr. Heggerty began consulting and providing professional devleopment to staff in the spring of 2007 and will continue to be a lead consultant for the 2007-2008
school year.
Dr. Heggerty's Site: LIteracy Resources, Inc.

Professional Learning

Professional Learning Communities are a series of cultural and structural changes that D102 implemented beginning in 2005 as a way of reaching its vision established in 1998 and revised in 2002 and 2007.
PLC Information from NCREL
PLC Dr. DuFour

Research Strategies

Along with Professional Learning Community (PLC) principles, District 102 draws from the effective schools and effective instructional strategies research to develop culture, climate, programs and pedogogy.
7Correlates of Effective Schools
Research-based Strategies
Effective Schools PDF