The curriculum provides leadership and guidance for all faculty to increase student learning through standards-based curricula, professional development and educational support. This site contains curriculum information and standards for each grade level taught in the Muscatine Community School District.

Professional Development

Muscatine Community School District is dedicated to continually improve the quality of our schools and the Professional Development operates to train our staff through the utilization of the Iowa Professional Development Model (http://educateiowa.gov/pdmtm/state.html). The MCSD professional development focuses on curriculum, instruction and assessment. The plans are based on the district goals, and are implemented at the building level.

No Child Left Behind Reporting

Signed into law in January 2002, NCLB requires states to provide information on schools’ and districts’ progress toward proficiency by 2014. Each state uses its own standards and assessments to make the annual determinations. Iowa uses data from the administration of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills/ Iowa Test Educational Development and submission of one alternate assessment to provide 2008 Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) information for the schools and districts.

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is the term used in NCLB to refer to the minimum improvement required of each school and district over the course of one year. It is measured at the school and district levels by measuring growth in the percentage of students scoring proficient or above in reading and mathematics and assessing improvement on one “other academic indicator” while testing at least 95 percent of enrolled students and student subpopulations of sufficient size.

NCLB mandates that schools and districts be held accountable for the progress of subgroups–minority students, low-income students, students with disabilities, students with limited-English proficiency (ELL)–in reading and mathematics– testing in grades 3 through 8 and at least once in each subject in grades 10-12 and rates of participation in testing.