CURRICULUM STRATEGIES
Developing the curriculum to support academic, occupational, technical, or workplace readiness standards is another step in a standards-based accountability system. States sponsor a wide range of strategies to support and assist local practitioners in the implementation of educational practices to improve student achievement. Technical assistance to local districts supports curriculum development and instructional improvement. This assistance can be provided to local educators directly by state-level staff and also by training local practitioners to become a network of trainers that will be able to reach other colleagues at the school level. In addition, states support educators through the collection and dissemination of lesson plans, integrated projects, and other approaches to implementing standards-based instruction in the classroom. Other strategies to support standards in the classroom include developing products, such as crosswalks of academic and vocational standards and curriculum guides, or sponsoring networks of model implementation sites that exemplify promising strategies for implementing reforms.
