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The Merton Community School District's Mission is to "foster academic excellence while inspiring curiosity and personal growth" This mission and corresponding vision strives to:
- Customize a curriculum that incorporates creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking that is responsive to student and community needs.
- Develop healthy children who live the values of the district.
- Invest in the resources and intentional professional development to cultivate a high quality staff.
- Partner with staff, students, families, businesses and community.
- Promote a staff and student culture that encourages exploration, risk taking, resilience, and responsibility.
- Provide a secure, inclusive, and engaging educational and work environment.
- Utilize technology to individualize student learning and enhance district operations.
We will select curriculum resources and utilize curriculum design by identifying opportunities to inspire curiosity in students, utilize technology, and promote creativity.
Merton Curriculum Renewal and Design Process
The Merton Community School District has a five phase curriculum review cycle for each content area. During the Stategic Planning Process and Plan, the Board of Education approves the Curriculum Renewal & Design Process Calendar that identifies each phase for each content area. Each cycle will involve evaluating our current curriculums and student data, exploring possible new curriculum, instruction and assessment approaches, seeking new engaging technologies to enhance programming, and producing the professional development to implement. The phases of curriculum renewal are outlined in the Curriculum & Evaluation Process.
Click here to view the calendar and process for curriculum review.
Merton Community School District Standards Notification
The Merton Community School District is committed to using benchmarked and rigorous academic standards that set the highest expectations for student performance and prepare students in the District for success in college and career development. Our Curriculum and Instruction Department works closely in the Curriculum Renewal and Design process to understand the influence of multiple factors in determining the specific learning targets (what we want students to know and be able to do) to direct student learning. In order to align expectations for students with the District’s desired learning targets for high school readiness, the School Board is committed to supporting content units of study through our board-adopted curriculum process (Policy 330).
In creating these learning expectations, the District carefully looks at multiple sources to best prepare our students for future college and career success and then creates standards that best fit the needs of the Merton Community School District students. These sources include the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards, Wisconsin Essential Elements Standards, ACT College and Career Readiness Standards, and other locally developed academic expectations.
Adopted July 17, 2023
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