HISD Curriculum Departments'
Power Objectives Development Site

  
Power_Up_website.gif (8683 bytes) Approximately 1000 teachers, content specialists, and campus administrators attended the Power UP Summer Institute at Sam Houston in June and July.

Power UP Summer Institute participants will be sharing their experiences and knowledge through campus-based training sessions throughout the 2008-2009 school year.

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To access the 2008-2009 Vertical Alignment Matrix with POWER OBJECTIVES...Click Here
 
A special thanks to all teachers and administrators who completed the Power Objectives survey. Thank you.
  

CONTINUING THE WORK ON
HISD'S POWER OBJECTIVE INITIATIVE!


To ensure a viable curriculum and improved student achievement, the departments of Elementary and Secondary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in July 2007 assembled a district-wide cohort of teachers at Sam Houston High School to prioritize and identify HISD Power Objectives in the four core content areas.

HISD Power Objectives serve as a subset of essential knowledge and skills in the Horizontal Alignment Planning Guides (HAPG) for teachers and administrators to use as a tool for instructional planning and common assessments.  The work accomplished in July by hundreds of HISD educators set a solid foundation for this ongoing  initiative to provide an effective, aligned, and quality curriculum for our students.  A follow-up effort is scheduled for January 2008.

Participating cohort members are teachers who have a deep understanding of the grade level content/course they represent, and who are master teachers committed to their own and their colleagues’ professional development.  They serve the region and the district during school year 2007-2008 as this initiative progresses.
 


All teachers participating in the Power Objectives Initiative work receive Larry Ainsworth's book.		 Power Standards: Identifying the Standards that Matter the Most by Larry Ainsworth.  Englewood, CO: Advanced Learning Press, 2003.