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Curriculum

Standards-Based Learning (SBL)

Homewood-Flossmoor High School is dedicated to engaging students in experiences that build skillful learners who embody the Profile of a Viking competencies and meet the content standards provided by Illinois State Board of Education. Our students learn in a culturally responsive and innovative learning environment through a standards-based curriculum that prepares them to be college, career and life ready. 

Standards-based learning: 

  • Provides all students with access to high quality learning experiences;
  • Gives students a role in designing and executing learning plans; 
  • Develops student agency in the learning process;
  • Helps teachers provide clear feedback to students on their learning progress; and
  • Provides families with clear outcomes for student learning.

HF offers a rigorous curriculum representing the planned standards-based outcomes that students are expected to achieve. The curriculum is organized into instructional units with:

  • Proficiency scales developed from standards, 
  • Assessments aligned to standards/scales, 
  • Learning experiences aligned to standards/scales, and
  • Instructional resources that support student learning.

HF’s teachers collaborate to develop responsive and research-based curriculum by participating in the following five phases of curriculum development:

 

5 phases of curriculum development