Curriculum

School Districts have a responsibility to ensure that instruction within schools encourages academic success and achievement and supports students by enabling them to set a solid foundation for their lives post-graduation. The Success Sequence is a scientifically supported framework that has demonstrated success in preventing adult poverty, promoting successful careers, and supporting healthy relationships by encouraging students to consider the benefits of education, employment, and marriage before childbearing. Adding focus on remaining abstinent until marriage encourages students to follow the success sequence framework and helps to reduce the rise in teenage and unwed fathers and mothers. By implementing the success sequence with an emphasis on abstinence until marriage, school districts are supporting a scientifically backed framework that aligns with most state laws and promotes academic excellence and healthy, stable, and successful students before and beyond graduation. This model policy corresponds directly to NWEF’s ‘Intro Course: Equipping Students for Life Success’ training series.

Teachers today are overburdened by classroom tasks, which can make classroom management seem overwhelming. With larger class sizes and new technologies, teachers must become more creative and effective in their classroom management. This policy seeks to help school boards support teachers by encouraging practices that will help the classroom operate more smoothly. By requiring teachers to attend classroom management training or seminars, the district is enabling teachers with resources. To provide support and incentive, districts should ensure that classroom management training helps teachers maintain their licensure. 

Teachers are responsible for a wide variety of tasks, from managing classroom culture to developing and executing lesson plans. It can become difficult to keep up with the workload while maintaining a standard of credible and reputable sources. While many states have a state-sponsored database, not all do. State-sponsored databases are helpful for teachers looking for reputable resources. Requiring teachers to pull their resources, plans, and activities from this sort of database helps ensure a quality standard is applied to all classroom activities. This policy is being developed to follow the third session of the Classroom Management Training: