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Westport Public Schools aims to provide a cohesive and comprehensive curriculum that intentionally connects standards, instruction, and assessment. Our curriculum development process is guided by a backward design approach. Backward design is based on the idea that planning is best done by starting with the desired results. It is a design approach that results in purposeful thinking about curriculum planning from a micro lens, as well as programmatic reform from a macro level. Looking at the outcomes first results in coherently-designed curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. The primary goal of backward design is student understanding, which is revealed when students autonomously transfer learning to novel scenarios.

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KHS participated in National Inclusive Schools Week. All classrooms read and discussed All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything and read other books about differently abled characters. Each day students watched a short clip on Cheetah Vision celebrating inclusivity and/or differences. Special Area Teachers planned special activities to support learning this week. 

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