Learning and Leading - August 2011

the curriculum to enhance student achievement came from the district, teachers collaborated and agreed on all of the components of the program, and teachers keep it running. Teachers further determined the criteria for populating the site, and teachers, along with one administrator (BT’s director) were selected to review all posted materials to verify adherence to those criteria. The program is a district initiative and is overseen by the governing board and curriculum and technology departments, but the program is managed by teachers.

Teachers, administrators, district officials, the governing board, and parents frequently discuss BT’s success. But the true accountability is to students. With a district goal of providing a guaranteed and viable curriculum to students based on standards—not textbooks—the community goal became a promise to students that they will be successful.