Student Learning
Learning Services
The purpose of Learning Services is to partner with educators to cultivate students who are critical thinkers, innovators, communicators, and have a global awareness and moral capacity to solve any problem, anywhere. Our classrooms and adult learning enviroments are learner-centered, rigorous, relevant, and offer opportunities to learn with and from one another.
Our educators embrace an entrepreneurial spirit of intelligent risk taking, innovation, collaboration, and flexibility of thought to improve student outcomes. Our educators understand that their innovation may fail; however, their willingness to learn from failure will create an even greater opportunity for our students. We create a culture of high expectations and experimentation that increases teacher effectiveness and student learning.
We commit to creating possibilities, not barriers, by listening to each other and participating in purposeful collaboration centered on student learning and support. It is our collective responsibility to improve the academic trajectory of our students' lives. We hold ourselves and each other accountable for student learning and growth.
Our Commitments:
STUDENT LEARNING
- Promote a rigorous, relevant, and responsive education with multiple pathways to success
- Provide an environment that reflects high expectations that all students can and will learn
- Encourage students to own their learning through authentic engagement which leads to success
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
- Collaborate effectively to improve outcomes for students and staff through the implementation of the Teaching/Learning Cycle
- Ensure a highly skilled, dedicated, caring staff that positively influences student learning
- Utilize reflection as an essential element for learning, growth and development
COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
- Support shared responsibility for student success through involvement of students, staff, families and community
- Establish a safe, supportive, respectful and productive learning environment for all students and staff
- Celebrate and honor diversity as an essential asset for learning
Our Goals:
- By 2015, all schools will meet or exceed the state proficiency average in reading, writing, math and science.
- Schools exceeding the state proficiency average in reading, writing, math, and science will increase the percentage of students performing at proficient and advanced each year.
The Learning Services Department has taken on an ambitious agenda to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment for students and staff. Below are a few initiatives that Adams 12 is learning about and working on:
600 educators are piloting the newly adopted Colorado Academic Standards and resources. The resources were created by each of our content areas support and enhance the Colorado Academic Standards.
38 schools are piloting tenets of grading practices, which will impact enhance student learning.
Implementation of a Interim Assessment System (MAP)
Ten elementary schools are researching and implementing the practices of content specialization.
Organization Charts: