This book for Ku12 school leaders and curriculum specialists leads educators step by step through curriculum planning and development processesufrom data analysis to alignment, mapping, pacing, assessment, and monitoring. The completion of each of these phases results in the creation of curriculum documents and curriculum benchmarks. With these documents a district will know:What academic expectations they are expected to teach and test in what grade or classWhere the data gaps are for each academic expectationWhere and when the expectations will be taught and the materials necessary to teach themHow to use aacommon assessment to test the expectations within grades or subjects