St. Benedict School uses the Iowa Core Curriculum to guide instruction. You can find out more information about the Iowa Common Core at: https://iowacore.gov/iowa-core.

The Core Curriculum provides the details for teachers to make sure students reach Iowa’s Core Content Standards and Benchmarks. It assists teachers in knowing how to integrate essential concepts and skills into student learning opportunities. The Core Curriculum is about teaching and learning; it provides examples of powerful instruction clearly tied to classroom assessments. It provides a comprehensive picture of effective curriculum that addresses pedagogy, content knowledge, and assessment.

The purpose of the Core Curriculum is to raise student expectations and change teaching behaviors to impact student achievement. The Core Curriculum provides the processes and establishes the urgency to set higher expectations and infuse more challenging and meaningful content into classroom instruction.