Curriculum Alignment: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

Aligning what is taught, written, and tested can be a powerful, systemic way of improving school performance. This guidebook, written by a longtime educator and proponent of curriculum alignment, demonstrates how to apply specific principles and recommendations to improve curriculum, instruction, and test scores.

This resource offers school and district administrators and curriculum specialists concrete, practical guidance for aligning curriculum and instruction with state standards and assessments to improve teaching and learning. The author offers research-based strategies that reinforce the importance of curriculum alignment and shows how districts can: Use alignment as a major curriculum design element, Translate research into usable strategies to achieve measurable results, Expand options for raising test results and student outcomes, Connect school policy with continuous school improvement, Meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind. Comprehensive, thoughtful, and realistic, Curriculum Alignment offers a wide range of approaches to appeal to educators at every level.