Students will:
Creativity Expression
1.0 Develop the ability to invent, refine, and extend ideas for individual, original, and expressive works of art while exploring a variety of media.

Perception / Fabricating
2.0 Use senses, knowledge and feelings to find meaning in their environment artistically.
3.0 Heighten students’ abilities to see subtle variations in visual elements and to look for underlying principle design structures in what they see.

Culture / Heritage
4.0 Know artistic traditions from around the world - Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The artistic diverse styles, interpretations of common themes with emphasis on contrasts and comparisons of cultural, personal, and practical functions of art, past and present.

Informed Judgment
5.0 Learn to make informed judgments about art using critical thinking skills in the processes of perceiving, analyzing, interpreting, and judging their own and others’ art.

Students will:
1. Exhibit a sound understanding of the basic operations and concepts of technology systems and demonstrate proficiency in the use of technology
2. Understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
3. Use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
4. Use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers and other audiences and use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively.
5. Use technology to locate, evaluate, collect and process data information from a variety of sources and report the results. They evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.
6. Use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions. They employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.

Students will:
Writing

1.0 Demonstrate competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process. (Writers
Workshop and Six Traits + One).
2.0 Write with a command of grammatical and mechanical conventions.
3.0 Effectively gather, evaluate and use information for research purposes.

Reading

4.0 Demonstrate competence in skills and strategies of the reading process.
5.0 Demonstrate competence in applying the reading process to specific types of literary texts.
6.0 Competently apply the reading process to specific types of informational texts.

Listening and Speaking

7.0 Demonstrate competency and fluency in everyday conversations and classroom discussion.
8.0 Demonstrate competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning.

Language

9.0 Demonstrate an understanding of the continual development and use of the English Language.

Literature

10.0 Demonstrate a familiarity with selected multi-cultural literary works.

Students will:
Communicate in the Target Language
1.0 Engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
2.0 Understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
3.0 Present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures
4.0 Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
5.0 Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.

Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information
6.0 Reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the target language.
7.0 Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the target language and its cultures.

Develop insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
8.0 Demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
9.0 Demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home and Around the World
10.0 Use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
11.0 Show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

Instructional programs should enable all students to:

1. Number and Operations
1) understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems;
2) understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another;
3) compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.

2. Algebra
1) understand patterns, relations, and functions;
2) represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols;
3) use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships;
4) analyze change in various contexts.

3. Geometry
1) analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships;
2) specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems;
3) apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations;
4) use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems.

4. Measurement
1) understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement;
2) apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements.

5. Data Analysis and Probability
1) formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them;
2) select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data;
3) develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data;
4) understand and apply basic concepts of probability.

6. Problem Solving
1) build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving;
2) solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts;
3) apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems;
4) monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving.

7. Reasoning and Proof
1) recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics;
2) make and investigate mathematical conjectures;
3) develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs;
4) select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof.

8. Communication
1) organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication;
2) communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others;
3) analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others;
4) use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.

9. Connections
1) recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas;
2) understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole;
3) recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.

10. Representation
1) create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas;
2) select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems;
3) use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.

Students will:
1.0 Understand and know how to identify the elements of music.
2.0 Recognize music from different cultures.
3.0 Read and notate music.
4.0 Participate in music creations.
5.0 Know and apply appropriate criteria to music performance.

Students will:
Physical Education
1. Use a variety of basic and advanced movement forms
2. Use movement concepts and principles in the development of motor skills
3. Understand the benefits and costs associated with participation in physical activity
4. Understand how to monitor and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
5. Understand the social and personal responsibility associated with participation in physical activity

Health Education
6. Know the availability and effective use of health services, products, and information
7. Know environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health
8. Understand the relationship of family health to individual health
9. Know how to maintain mental and emotional health
10. Know essential concepts and practices concerning injury prevention and safety
11. Understand essential concepts about nutrition and diet
12. Know how to maintain and promote personal health
13. Know essential concepts about the prevention and control of disease
14. Understand aspects of substance use and abuse
15. Understand the fundamental concepts of growth and development
16. Understand the fundamental concepts of growth and development

Students will:
Earth and Space Sciences
1.0 Understand atmospheric processes and the water cycle
2.0 Understand Earth’s composition and structure
3.0 Understand the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth’s place in it

Life Sciences
4.0 Understand the principles of heredity and related concepts
5.0 Understand the structure and function of cells and organisms
6.0 Understand relationships among organisms and their physical environment
7.0 Understand biological evolution and the diversity of life

Physical Sciences
8.0 Understand the structure and the properties of matter
9.0 Understand the sources and properties of energy
10.0 Understand forces and motion

Nature of Sciences
11.0 Understands the nature of scientific knowledge
12.0 Understands the nature of scientific inquiry
13.0 Understands the scientific enterprise

Students will:
Historical Understandings
Standard 1: Understand chronological relationships and patterns
Standard 2: Understand the historical perspective
Standard 3: Understand the history of our community, our state, and our nation

Behavioral Studies
Standard 4: Understand human development, identity, and behavior
Standard 5: Understand social groups and interactions among individuals, groups and institutions

Civics
Standard 6: Understand civic life, government, and its functions
Standard 7: Understand the Constitution and the basic values and principles of American Democracy
Standard 8: Understand the relationships among the United States and other nations
Standard 9: Understand citizenship in American democracy

Geography
Standard 10: Understand the uses of maps, globes and other geographic tools
Standard 11: Understand physical and human characteristics of places and regions
Standard 12: Knows the location of places, geographic features and patterns of the environment
Standard 13: Understand the complexity of human populations on Earth
Standard 14: Understand how physical systems and humans modify the environment

Economics
Standard 15: Understand that scarcity of productive resources requires choices that generate opportunity costs
Standard 16: Understand market structures and economic systems
Standard 17: Understand the roles of government in the United States economy and performance indicators of the economy
Standard 18: Understand international economics

United States History (grades 5 – 12)
Standard 19: Understand the cultural characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa Beginnings to 1620
Standard 20: Understand colonial history and settlement in the Americas and how political, religious, and social institutions took root 1585 – 1763
Standard 21: Understand the causes of the American Revolution and the impact on the economy, society, and government 1754-1820
Standard 22: Understand the conflict of nationalism and sectionalism in the expanding nation (1801-1865)
Standard 23: Understand the causes and character of the Civil War and the effects of the war on reconstruction (1850 - 1877)
Standard 24: Understand how industrialization, immigration, urbanization, and United States foreign policy transformed America (1870 - 1900)
Standard 25: Understand the changing role of the United States at home with the Progressives and abroad as a world power in World War I and on the eve of the Great Depression 1890-1930
Standard 26: Understand prosperity and depression and how the New Deal transformed American federalism and initiated a welfare state 1920-1941
Standard 27: Understand the causes and course of World War II and reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs, including the Cold War, Korean War, and Vietnam War 1920-1970
Standard 28: Understand the struggle for prosperity and equal rights in the United States and contemporary economic, political, and cultural developments 1960 to present
Standard 29: Understand the biological and cultural processes that shaped the earliest human communities and emergence of agricultural societies

World History (grades 6 – 12)
Standard 30: Understand the early civilizations and the rise of the pastoral peoples
Standard 31: Understand the classical traditions, major religions and rise of giant empires
Standard 32: Understand the major expansions and redefining boundaries of countries and cultures (300 - 1000 CE)
Standard 33: (1000 - 1500) Understand the expansion and centralization of power of states and civilizations
Standard 34: (1450 - 1770) Understand global expansion and the early modern world
Standard 35: (1700 - 1900) Understand global unrest and the age of revolutions
Standard 36: Understand patterns of global changes: world wars, industrialism, urbanization and imperialism
Standard 37: Understand post-industrialism and global interdependence