The District Teaching and Learning Department is dedicated to fostering high-quality educational experiences by developing robust teaching and learning opportunities for both students and teachers. Our approach centers on providing quality core experiences coupled with focused learning, achieved through a strategic balance of collective and individual development. This balance is maintained by selecting and utilizing high-quality instructional programming alongside differentiated learning strategies, including a variety of specialized instructional programs.   Instructional decision making and professional learning are grounded in high quality programming and expert pedagogical practice. 

Key Teaching and Learning Systems in ACSD #1 include: 

Instructional Programs and Structures 

• Instructional Framework 

• MTSS Framework 

• Core instructional Programs & Standards 

• Career-Readiness Programming 

• Holistic and Targeted GATE Programming 

• Multi-lingual learning (including English Learner Programming and Dual Language Immersion Programming) 

• Early Literacy Plan 

• Extensions Programming 

• Pre-school Programming 

• Summer Programming 

• Credit Recovery and Academic Support Programming 

Professional Development Programs 

• Professional Development Framework 

• Kagan Structures 

• Project Based Learning 

• Place Based Learning 

• Learner-Centered Instruction 

• Professional Learning Communities 

• Coaching, Consultancy, & Collaboration