Academics
Our Instructional Vision
Hartford Public Schools equips every child with the tools and experiences they need to transform their communities and beyond. Our Instructional Vision articulates the key characteristics of high-quality teaching and learning. It serves as a bridge between the District Model for Excellence and the Portrait of a Graduate, using language familiar from the Common Core of Teaching and content-specific guidance documents to create a cohesive and inclusive framework for highly effective practice.
Curriculum
Teaching and learning is the backbone of a school district, and it constantly evolves in response to the changing needs of the student population, as well as newly acquired best practices in education, district initiatives, and state directives. The curriculum development process is ongoing, working through stages of planning, development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and revision.
Our district curriculum is aligned to the Connecticut Core Standards (Common Core Standards) for English Language Arts and Mathematics and content area standards including:
Connecticut Elementary and Secondary Social Studies Frameworks
SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Educators) National Standards
AASL (American Association of School Librarians) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
The Curriculum, Instruction, and Media Literacy (CIML) department is committed to preparing our students throughout their Pre–K through Grade 12 years to graduate and to be college and career ready. CIML team members are professional learners, designers, integrators, and coaches of curriculum and educational technology to inform instruction and assessment literacy in the district. Utilizing best practice and research-based strategies, CIML supports formative assessment to inform Tier I instruction. Our team develops instruction and assessment literacy by using inquiry for ongoing reflective practice, supporting instructional strategies to drive differentiated Tier I instruction. Through reflecting on the instructional core and developing demonstration classrooms as a professional learning system, CIML is a learning community that learns by reflective doing to ensure every student thrives and every school is high performing.
The Curriculum Development and Instructional Improvement Plan is designed to provide a structure and process that will guide sustained review and improvement of existing curricula and drive the creation, review, and implementation of future curricula.