Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Professional Learning

Well designed professional learning is interactive, relevant, and applicable for the intended audience. Through CIA professional learning opportunities, we encourage participants to reflect, practice, and take ownership in deepening individual and collective instructional knowledge and skills.

Below is a library of asynchronous and archived training sessions from the current and past school years. Should you have any questions, please reach out to us at curriculum@saisd.net.

picture of the four staar redesign modules

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is implementing new changes to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) starting spring 2023. To provide information on what these changes are and how this will impact the monitoring of classroom instruction, SAISD is providing a series of modules for administrators, teachers, and parents (English and Spanish) to complete at your convenience. Should you have specific questions regarding instructional expectations, contact any District department program supervisor or email curriculum@saisd.net. For official information on the changes to the STAAR test, please visit the TEA STAAR Redesign Website. Click in any section below to get started.

School Leaders | Teachers | Parents English | Parents Español

Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment presents the Instructional Influencer Series! This is a series designed to connect campus and district leaders with conversations around the latest developments, research, and ideas regarding topics of instructional leadership. With a "for us, by us" approach, SAISD leaders can use this opportunity to start meaningful conversations that will ultimately lead to school success!

Season 1: Promotional Flyer | Full YouTube Playlist

The Academic Dean is a campus department-based position that improves student achievement and enhances teacher capacity by providing programmatic curriculum, instruction, assessment, differentiation, and professional learning aligned to the campus academic program. Academic Deans lead department staff with instructional coaching, model teaching, and designing of targeted intervention small group instruction based on data analysis. Additionally, Academic Deans lead the monitoring of all college, career, and military readiness metrics for all students to ensure attainment of postsecondary readiness indicators. Finally, Academic Deans provide students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth.

Monthly Agendas

July | TSI Summit | September | October | November | January | February | March

2023-2024 Monthly Presentations

July | September September Newsletter | October October Newsletter | November | January January Newsletter | February |

Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment has created the below asynchronous, self-paced eCourses for teachers to complete. Each course supports planning for lesson development, student engagement, peer collaboration, and formative assessment. The course link below will force a copy of the slide deck, a personal copy to annotate, and credit will only be issued if the Google form is completed on the final slide. Please make sure you are logged into your SAISD Google account. For the full deck of Academics eCourses, visit the Academics Self-Paced PD Choiceboard.

Curriculum Overview | Partnering With Your IC | Cross-Content Literacy Strategies

CBLI in Mathematics | CBLI in Social Studies | CBLI in Science | CBLI in Reading-Language Arts

Building Engagement v2

In SAISD, we strive to continually increase our ability to engage students by building relationships and creating environments where students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. Creating instructional routines repeated every day will support increase engagement and allow students to successfully interact with each other and the content. This is the second version of Building Engagement which provides guidance on in-person learning strategies to support student success. If we build it, they will come!

Building Engagement v2

Building Engagement v1

Our current instructional charge is to create a simultaneous online and in-person environment where students will speak, turn on cameras, and interact with teachers and peers to learn content. Building relationships and creating instructional routines repeated every day will support increased engagement. This guide helps provide some tips for doing just that, as well as some recommended digital tools to support blended learning. If we build it, they will come!

Building Engagement v1 | Brief Explanation of the Tips | Recorded Teacher Training

The Formative Assessment Modules are designed to walk teams through the process of identifying critical attributes of high-quality formative assessments and the process for developing and using these assessments on a regular basis in the classroom.

Formative Assessment Modules Overview

Module 2 Asynchronous Training | Module 3 Asynchronous Training | Module 4 Asynchronous Training

The New Teacher Orientation Modules are designed to familiarize new teachers with SAISD Curriculum Resources. provide an overview of the work in the CIA Department, introduce the assessment practices in the district, and begin diving into the 7 Steps to a Language Rich classroom.

SAISD Curriculum Overview | SAISD Assessment Practices Overview | SAISD Collaborative Practices

7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom

What is ILA?

The Instructional Leadership Academy (ILA) is a year-long series of professional learning days dedicated to the development of instructional leaders who serve in positions which include the instructional coaching role.

What is the ILA structure?

ILA is a conference-style structure with ongoing strands of study throughout the year. Participants commit to one to two strands of study, and participate in those sessions in every ILA. The purpose of the strands are to promote opportunities for in-depth and continuous study of particular topics and the support to implement new learning and collaborate on the results. The other sessions are choice sessions which change every ILA based on relevant trainings, data, and needs for that particular time of the school year. Feedback is collected every ILA to inform the development of choice sessions and adjustment of content of strand sessions.

Instructional Leadership Academy Smores

August 1 | August 30 | August 31 | September 28 | October 26 | November 30 | January 11