Iowa Core CurriculumIowa Core CurriculumThe Iowa Core Curriculum provides a guide to The Iowa Core Curriculum provides a guide to

delivering challenging and meaningful content to delivering challenging and meaningful content to students that prepares them for success in life. students that prepares them for success in life.

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Research states. . .Research states. . .

High expectations are a critical High expectations are a critical ingredient in improving student ingredient in improving student performance and ensuring student performance and ensuring student success beyond high school success beyond high school

What will it offer Iowa students?What will it offer Iowa students?

Ensure that all Iowa students have Ensure that all Iowa students have access to the challenging and access to the challenging and meaningful curriculum that prepares meaningful curriculum that prepares them for success in postsecondary them for success in postsecondary education and the emerging global education and the emerging global economy economy

What will it offer Iowa What will it offer Iowa educators?educators?

Provide a tool for Iowa school districts and Provide a tool for Iowa school districts and educators to use in assuring that essential educators to use in assuring that essential subject matter is being taught and subject matter is being taught and essential knowledge and skills are being essential knowledge and skills are being learned learned

Provide a foundation for school districts to Provide a foundation for school districts to implement graduation requirements more implement graduation requirements more effectively and meaningfully effectively and meaningfully

What is a parent or community What is a parent or community member's role?member's role?

Includes communities and schools Includes communities and schools working together to support this working together to support this historic endeavor historic endeavor

Encouraging educators, parents, and Encouraging educators, parents, and community members to strive community members to strive toward a common goal of increasing toward a common goal of increasing student achievement and preparing student achievement and preparing students for the 21st century students for the 21st century

ICC ContentICC Content

Essential concepts and skills for Essential concepts and skills for kindergarten through 12th grade in kindergarten through 12th grade in literacy, mathematics, science, social literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, and 21st century skillsstudies, and 21st century skills

2121stst century skills include: Civic Literacy, century skills include: Civic Literacy, Employability Skills, Financial Literacy, Employability Skills, Financial Literacy, Health Literacy, Technological Literacy Health Literacy, Technological Literacy

Content Standards and Performance Content Standards and Performance Standards for all areasStandards for all areas

LiteracyLiteracy

ReadingReading WritingWriting SpeakingSpeaking ListeningListening ViewingViewing

MathematicsMathematics

Essential Content, Skills, and Essential Content, Skills, and CharacteristicsCharacteristics

Numbers & Operations (K-8)Numbers & Operations (K-8) Quantitative Literacy (9-12)Quantitative Literacy (9-12) AlgebraAlgebra Geometry & MeasurementGeometry & Measurement Data Analysis, Statistics, & Data Analysis, Statistics, &

ProbabilityProbability

ScienceScience

Science as InquiryScience as Inquiry Earth and SpaceEarth and Space Life ScienceLife Science Physical SciencePhysical Science

Social StudiesSocial Studies

Behavioral SciencesBehavioral Sciences EconomicsEconomics GeographyGeography HistoryHistory Political Science/Civic LiteracyPolitical Science/Civic Literacy