The Department of Catholic Schools has developed curriculum aligned with NYS Standards in each of the K-8 core content areas. These curricula are intended to guide the core learning across the K-8 grade levels, and content area continuum.

The development and refinement of curriculum is always a work in progress evolving to meet the needs of our students, state requirements and educational research. Therefore, we will be continuously updating each content area. Our goal is to provide a dynamic, useful resource for teachers and parents.

The curriculum is designed around essential questions, content, skills and assessment:

Essentials questions:  what students think about relative to the content
Content:  what students should know
Skills:  what students should be able to do
Assessment:  sample of ways in which student learning may be measured 

New York State has adopted new standards.  The New York State Common Core Learning Standards are posted to their website.

Dec. 2011 Memo with testing times and field test information

NYSED Testing Schedule for ELA, Math and Science (2012 testing)

Dec. 2011 Press release for ELA and Math Assessments

There is a website filled with resources for the Common Core Learning Standards that includes materials used in the August 2011 turnkey trainings held in Albany.  Check www.engageny.org often for updated material.
 

Appendix B: Test Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks - Common Core State Standards for ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects