Curriculum & Learning

Curriculum & Learning at Cedar Park

Center for the Collaborative Classroom Curriculum
- Centered on Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
- Focused on reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- Combines instructional reading texts with independently reading books at individual student levels

SPS Scope and Sequence Curriculum
- Centered on Common Core State Standards
- Supplemented with CCSS-based materials and best practices

Amplify Science
- Hands-on phenomena exploration
- Based on 21st Century Science Skills

Positive Behavior Intervention & Supports (PBIS)
- Explicitly teach, practice, and build positive accountability to school-wide expectations
- Focused on building a positive environment around students achieving expectation (versus focused on punishment for failure)
- Hold students to high standards while providing structured scaffolding for students who need additional support
RULER
- SPS is working with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (the program is being incrementally implemented across the district)
- Four key pillars:
  - Class Charter
  - Mood Meter
  - Meta Moments
  - Emotional Intelligence Blue Print
Social-emotional learning also taught through:
- Collaborative Classroom Literary Curriculum
- Social Studies Curricula
- Expeditionary Learning

Reading Advocacy: nurturing a lifelong love of reading across a range of genres
Information Literacy: empowering students to effectively locate, use, and produce information
Social-Emotional Learning: nurture self-awareness, compassion, and global citizenship through literature

Physical Education at Cedar Park is a skills-based program for Kindergarten-5th Grade students. Through practice and game play students learn how to:
- move safely through spaces
- improve throwing and foot skills
- use paddles or hockey sticks
- move to rhythm, jump rope
- incorporate tactics (defense/offense)
PE is also a place where students learn:
- the 5 Components of Health-Related Fitness
- nutrition using MyPlate
- goal setting
- muscle, bone, and heart health
- sportsmanship, collaboration, and spirit of the game
- pedestrian and bike safety
- impact of physical health on our lives (socially, emotionally, and physically)
Note: Skills are taught in a rotational fashion (e.g. one year the focus may be basketball skills, the following year volleyball skills will be emphasized). The goal is to introduce students to a variety of physical activities over the course of their time as a Cedar Park student.

Art
- Cedar Park Art Docent Program (one session per month)
- Expeditionary Learning project opportunities
Music
- Grades K-5
- Music theory, appreciation, vocal practice and instrument exploration
Instrumental Music
- Grades 4-5
- Classes/Lesson held once per week