Yvonne Brown
Coordinator

The Curriculum Audit process follows generally accepted principles of organizational effectiveness, and the product is a comprehensive, detailed, and highly contextualized written report. The report analyzes the district's programs, diagnoses strengths and weaknesses, and recommends concrete courses of action for the board and superintendent to follow in order to improve and advance the levels of student learning and teacher efficacy in their educational organization. The Curriculum Audit is perfect for any district leadership team seeking valuable feedback regarding its efforts to improve achievement for all students. The curriculum audit is not an evaluation of teacher performance but an assessment of program effectiveness. The audit will be conducted in a transparent, inclusive manner, inviting comment review and participation from district level personnel, elementary, middle and high school staff members, students and parents.

Curriculum assessment is a process of gathering and analyzing information from multiple sources in order to improve student learning in sustainable ways. Assessing curriculum can serve several major purposes:

• To identify aspects of a curriculum that are working and those that need to change.
• To assess the effectiveness of changes that has already been made.
• To meet regular program review requirements as identified by district level personnel.

According to Wiggins and McTighe (2007), "The job is not to hope that optimal learning will occur, based on our curriculum and initial teaching. The job is to ensure that learning occurs, and when it doesn't, to intervene in altering the syllabus and instruction decisively, quickly, and often."

This curriculum audit will be conducted with the following components:

• District led audit team
• 3-5year review cycle
• Collection of classroom observations, academic data, and interviews/surveys

The diagram below displays the final process of the audit that includes written reports, oral presentations about the findings and recommendations for improvement.