Instructional Playbook

CSD Instructional Playbook & Instructional Guides

Instructional Guides are designed to be used as a tool for: ALIGNMENT: Provides support and coordination between concepts, skills, standards, curriculum, and assessments. COMMUNICATION: Articulates expectations and learning goals for students. PLANNING: Focuses instructional decisions and targets critical information for instructional tasks. COLLABORATION: Promotes professionalism and fosters dialogue between colleagues about best practices pertaining to sequencing, unit emphasis, length, integration, and review strategies. INCREASED SUCCESS: Students achievement increases when both teachers and students know where they are going, why they are going there, and what is required of them to get there. Instructional Guides Developed Collaboratively Canyons School District’s Instructional Guides were collaboratively developed and refined by teacher committees, instructional coaches, building administrators, and specialists in the Instructional Supports Department. Guides are updated each school year to ensure they reflect current practices. Instructional Guides are specific to grade levels and/or content areas. Purpose of CSD Playbook & Instructional Guides Canyons School District’s Playbook and Instructional Guides have been created to provide teachers with evidence-based pedagogy supports and standards-based scope and sequences with teacher materials that are driven by the Utah Effective Teaching Standards and the Utah Core Standards. Tools and resources provided have been adopted by the Canyons’ Board of Education and/or been approved through the Instructional Materials Database. The guides and materials are coordinated vertically within feeder systems and horizontally within grade-levels.

CSD’s Instructional Guides: https://www.canyonsdistrict.org/manuals/