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Growth in student learning can be verified through effective curriculum and instruction when:
 * Belief Statement on Curriculum and Instruction**

1. Curriculum is  · Data driven based on students’ formative assessments · Relevant to students’ real world lives · Empowering and enriching to all students · Embedded in research · Focused on critical thinking, problem solving, and effective oral and written communication · Connected to the 21st century global economy needs

2. Instruction is  · Relevant to students’ real world lives and sparks curiosity and imagination · Engaging and hands on and keeps all students actively involved through collaboration · Focused on students constructing meaning · Differentiated to meet all students’ needs · Based on best practices according to current research · Pushing students to higher order thinking

The New Hope School District is dedicated to the best practices based on current research by providing quality professional development and professional learning communities to increase student achievement through effective curriculum and instruction.