The Board of Education for the West Bend School District approved and adopted the WEST BEND SCHOOL DISTRICT ACADEMIC STANDARDS 2016-17 at its July 27, 2016 Board of Education meeting, aligning its curriculum, instruction and assessment with the Wisconsin State Standards.

A link to the WEST BEND SCHOOL DISTRICT ACADEMIC STANDARDS will be posted on the WBSD website under the Academics tab.

The West Bend School District determines the curriculum to ensure alignment to academic standards.

Standards are:

• Expectations for what students should learn.

• Typically statements of what a student should know by the end of the year or a class.

• Created to ensure that students from one classroom to another are taught the same basic information in a particular subject.

• The Standards are the WHAT.

Curriculum is:

• The Curriculum is the text, resources, activities, lessons, units, and assessments that will be used to teach students the Standards.

• The West Bend School District selects the resources/methods that facilitate the delivery of the curriculum to ensure students meet standard proficiency levels.

• In the West Bend School District we use the Curriculum Audit Cycle to determine instruction resources used to deliver the curriculum.