Wisconsin ASCD's primary focus for professional development is improving educator effectiveness in the areas of curriculum, instruction and assessment with the ultimate goal of producing college and career ready students.

By offering a balance of curriculum, instruction, and assessment professional development opportunities that focus on adaptive change, WASCD will help districts create a curriculum and assessment system that is conceptually different from the past and leads to the type of change necessary as we move forward in the 21st Century.

School or district teams will learn to use the Common Core to rethink and build curriculum and performance assessments that will increase student achievement by creating tasks that are relevant, interesting, meaningful and useful.

Join us for any or all of this 5-part series Featuring Jay McTighe

April 25 2013 - Building an Understanding Based Curriculum Around the Common Core Standards

July 23/24 2013 - Process and Product Team Work: Framing Curriculum with the Common Core Standards

November 20, 2013 - The Assessment System: Teaching for Transfer of Autonomous Performance

April 9, 2014 - Mapping the Curriculum: Planning and Sequencing Leaning Progressions

July 22/23, 2014 - Process and Product Team Work: Unit Planning

Wisconsin ASCD, in partnership with Wisconsin DPI’s Common Core Implementation Team and the CESA Statewide Network (CSN),  formed the WI Teaching and Learning Collabratory.  These programs are designed to help you with quality implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Learn More