Curriculum and Content Standards

Let EdFOCUS help you make the standards process this year’s most efficient and productive professional growth experience for your entire staff. Our considerable experience with the current standards in Ohio and many other states gives EdFOCUS another distinct advantage.  We are perfectly positioned to help districts balance their focus on what is still tested on the OAAs with making the transition to the new standards.

Mastering the Curriculum Standards

21st Century Skills

Curriculum Mapping

Best Practices

EdFOCUS has perfected training to help every school make these "best practices" an integral part of its deep-culture and daily operation. The EdFOCUS approach is to show teachers how to use each "practice" in the context of the actual curriculum and the Units they actually teach. From there, the "practices" are strengthened and extended through continuous coaching and monitoring by a coach and/or the principal. Working at this level of collaboration, the staff becomes a Professional Learning Community with the capacity to provide for its own continuous growth and self- correction.

Taxonomy of "Best Practices"

 "Best Practices" Unit Planning

 Increasing Student Engagement

 Differentiation and RTI

 Classroom Assessments

Organizational Audit

Each EdFOCUS Audit is a thorough and objective examination of the current status of a district or school’s activity in comparison to what a district perceives to be the ideal status.  EdFOCUS then analyzes the discrepancy between the two, and this gap analysis provides the district a road-map for what it needs to address. Planned with the district in the context of its particular needs, the Audit consists of on-site interviews, observations, and review of key documents.

Organizational Audit

Curriculum Audit

Instructional Audit

Assessment Audit

Leadership and Learning Communities

EdFOCUS provides training to Leadership Teams at every level. To be effective, team members must see themselves as ‘representing’ others in their respective stakeholder group. For maximum effectiveness and practicality, each teacher member should actually work with a small cohort of his and her peers. The Leadership Teams are provided training in adult learning theory to understand how to work effectively with adults. Teams are also shown how to take continuous ‘soundings’ of their colleagues to anticipate needs and provide on-going clarity and reassurance.

Collaborative Observation

Building Leadership Teams

Leadership Training for Administrators

Data Analysis

Data Analysis for High-Stakes Tests and Benchmark Assessments