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• CHCCS: Teachers use Atlas mapping, a web -based program that <br />allows them to design their lessons within the .SCOS. The district <br />is working hard to articulate the SCOS across the district <br />Curriculum alignment that coordinates what is taught with what is tested is one <br />method of protecting students, teachers and schools from the consequences of poor test <br />performance. Badly administered, alignment can collapse the curriculum into the test, <br />impoverishing it. Well done, alignment can engage teachers in discussions of best practice, <br />the selection of curriculum and texts, and provide a sense of confidence that encourages <br />the provision of a rich, interesting and varied curriculum as well as one that provides test <br />preparation. <br />• CHCCS: Each school has representatives on the District <br />curriculum committee making broad decisions about curriculum. <br />The district provides continuity across grades and schools, but <br />the individual teachers can decide how to teach within that <br />framework, They choose their unit plans and specifics [X <br />Schooljgave up part of a science position and part of clerical <br />position to fund a position: Instructional Resource Teacher. She <br />helps the textbook committee, finds teacher resources, helps <br />with planning and pacing. <br />As seen in Table 46 below, CHCCS have resources that permit the central system to <br />employ specialists who can provide the leadership that enriched alignment requires. <br />Whereas the OCS system employs an Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and <br />Instruction, and a Director of Elementary Instruction and a Director of Secondary <br />Instruction, CHCCS employs an Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction in addition <br />to the Assistant Superintendent, who also coordinates Social Studies. She is assisted by <br />subject or program area specialists. <br />CHCCS /OCS Final Report 73 <br />