INSTRUCTIONAL INITIATIVES

Career Pathways, an approach to secondary education and postsecondary planning, is designed to engage each student in the creation of a flexible, individualized Student Success Plan that includes rigorous academic coursework, credit-bearing college courses, related electives, and structured external work-based learning experiences within the context of a chosen career pathway.

Connecticut Career Pathways - Seasons of Change and Transition [PDF] This guide serves as a resource for educators and provides important links to in-depth information. It provides students with direction as active informed participants in the development of their personalized roadmaps to future career success.

CSDE Tools for Curriculum and Instruction includes a guide for district curriculum development to help identify next steps in the process and a walk-through protocol guide that can be focused for your building or district initiatives.

Connecticut Walkthrough Protocol Guide [PDF] [DOC]

Early Literacy initiatives provide support to districts and schools toward creating optimal early learning environments in kindergarten through third grade to ensure that every child is reading at or above grade level.

Literacy Across the Content Areas offers resources for grades 4-12 to support Connecticut’s literacy goal that each student becomes an independent, skilled, lifelong reader, writer, listener, speaker, viewer, and presenter.

Scientific Research-Based Intervention (SRBI) is Connecticut’s framework for improving education for all students based on a three-tier response to interven-tion model (Executive Summary).

New! Early Childhood SRBI

Connecticut's Framework for RTI Using Scientific Research-Based Interventions-SRBI: Improving Education for All Students (Full Publication).

Family Guide to SRBI

Secondary School Reform is Connecticut’s initiative to improve education in its middle and high schools, so that students are prepared for life and work in the 21st century.