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- About Teaching, Learning & Assessment
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The Department of Teaching, Learning & Assessment is responsible for the development, implementation, instructional technology support, and assessment of the district's instructional program. The department's major goal is to provide support to the schools, learning for staff to implement and improve student success. Services of the department include curriculum development, instructional material development and adoptions, instructional strategies, student assessment, staff development, technology applications, and specialized programs. Our schools offer a variety of educational opportunities and support programs for all students. The basic curriculum is aligned to the new Illinois Learning Standards (incorporating the Common Core Standards) and the District 15 Student Performance Targets.
District 15 is committed to ambitious instruction that is responsive to the needs of our students. Our instructional approach is grounded in a commitment to all students can and will learn as a result of a District 15 education. Our instructional framework is rooted in the following five dimensions of powerful classrooms:- Content: All students work on core content issues in ways that enable them to develop conceptual understandings, develop reasoning and problem solving skills, and use content concepts, tools and methods in relevant contexts.
- Cognitive Demand: All students have opportunities to make their own sense of important ideas, developing deeper understandings, connections, and applications by building on what they know.
- Equitable Access to Content: All students are supported in access to central content and participate actively in the work of the class. Diverse strengths and needs are built on through the use of an extensive repertoire of strategies, resources, and technologies that enable all students to participate meaningfully.
- Agency, Ownership and Identity: All students build productive disciplinary identities through taking advantage of opportunities to engage meaningfully with the discipline and share and refine their developing ideas.
- Formative Assessment: Every student’s learning is continually enhanced by the ongoing strategic and flexible use of techniques and activities that allow students to reveal their emerging understandings and provide opportunities to rethink misunderstandings to build on productive ideas.
CCSD15 Curriculum Objections
Parents/guardians have the right to inspect any instructional material used as part of their child's educational curriculum pursuant to School Board policy 7:15, Student and Family Privacy Rights.
Persons who believe that curriculum, instructional materials, or programs violate rights guaranteed by any law or Board policy should file a complaint using Board policy 2:260, Uniform Grievance Procedure. Persons with all other suggestions or complaints about curriculum, instructional materials, or programs should complete a Curriculum Objection form. A parent/guardian may request that his/her child be exempt from using a particular instructional material or program by completing a Curriculum Objection form.
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Lori Lopez, PhD
Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Lori Lopez, PhD
Phone: 847-963-3101
E-mail: lopezl@ccsd15.net
Contact Us
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Assistant Superintendent of Teaching, Learning, & Assessment
Lori Lopez, PhD
Phone: 847-963-3101
Email: lopezl@ccsd15.netExecutive Assistant
Megan Arista
Phone: 847-963-3111
Email: aristam@ccsd15.netDirector of Curriculum
Emily McFadden, EdD
Phone: 847-963-3141
Email: mcfaddee@ccsd15.netAssistant Director of Curriculum
Literacy & Social Studies
Megan Preis
Phone: 847-963-3131
Email: preism@ccsd15.netAssistant Director of Curriculum
Math & Science
Tiffany Costa
Phone: 847-963-3116
Email: costat@ccsd15.netAssistant Director of Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Kristen Orlando
Phone: 847-963-3126
Email: orlandok@ccsd15.netInstructional Coordinator
Julie Crawford
Phone: 847-963-3117
Email: crawforj@ccsd15.netInstructional Coordinator
Brittany Henry
Phone: 847-963-3133
Email: henryb@ccsd15.netPrincipal Coach
Mike Carmody
Phone: 847-963-3000
Email: carmodym@ccsd15.netCurriculum Inventory & Distribution Specialist
Jimmy Lesiotis
Phone: 847-963-3966
Email: lesiotij@ccsd15.netSecretary
Cheryl O'Neill
Phone: 847-963-3121
Email: oneillc@ccsd15.netSecretary
Danielle Schoiber
Phone: 847-963-3016
Email: schoibed@ccsd15.net