Pamela R. Juarez
Associate Superintendent
Curriculum & Instruction
(956) 473-2000

Welcome to the United ISD Department for Curriculum and Instruction.  The department is organized into five instructional branches:  Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, Instructional Accountability and Campus Intervention.  Each branch is led by an Executive Director.  Together the instructional team guides and empowers all instructional directors, coordinators, and support staff ensuring effective, efficient, instructional support to all UISD campuses.

The department is committed to the continuous improvement of the PK-12th grade TEKS based, learner centered, aligned scope and sequence for all core areas.  All teachers are expected to adhere to the scope and sequence as a means of ensuring a comprehensive sequential delivery of instruction throughout UISD.

The department has reached the desired alignment between the taught TEKS Curriculum, and the STAAR assessed Curriculum through the development of 3T’s – TEKS Targeted Tests and 3 C’s Comprehensive, Content Competencies. The revised 3T assessments will provide timely feedback for early intervention and accelerated academic success for all students.

Both the scope and sequences and the aligned assessments will continue contributing to the attainment of the following instructional goal:  Provide consistent quality TEKS based instruction and/or an alternative curriculum for all students, resulting in improved student achievement. In addition, the emphasis on learner centered instruction and highly effective questioning will reinstitute an excitement for learning in a nurturing environment.  To ensure consistent quality instruction in every UISD classroom all teacher staff development will focus on instructional accountability/meeting the needs of diverse learners.

In addition, the following UISD goals increase participation in advanced academic courses/dual credit courses with successful completion and increase the number of advanced placement exams with qualifying scores of three or above and to increase the participation at SAT/ACT preparation opportunities resulting in increased average SAT/ACT scores will focus on encouraging students to achieve at their maximum potential.

In the 2011-2012 school year we will renew our commitment to creating responsive learning environments. We will put Reading First in every PK-12 classroom by explicitly teaching phonological and phonemic awareness, decoding and word recognition, fluency, academic vocabulary, and comprehension. In addition we will strengthen all students’ reading ability by providing reading materials within each students’ Lexile measure. In addition we will increase the fidelity of our implementation of the three tiered model of interventions with continuous differentiation to meet each students’ needs. We will continue to engage all students in rigorous and relevant learning through Highly Effective Questioning resulting in a culture of engaged critical thinkers and we will work diligently to implement all these effective strategies with “pedagogical automaticity”. (Jane Pollock)

I congratulate our two exemplary campuses,  Juarez-Lincoln Elementary and Trautmann Elementary  and our nineteen recognized campuses, United High School, George Washington Middle, Nye Elementary, Newman Elementary, UDD Hachar Elementary, Gutierrez Elementary, Ruiz Elementary, De Llano Elementary, Kazen Elementary, Borchers Elementary, Kennedy-Zapata Elementary, Col Santos Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Muller Elementary, Arndt Elementary, Bonnie Garcia Elementary, Malakoff Elementary, Fazken Elementary,  Killam Elementary. I am confident that through outstanding campus leadership and the delivery of quality instruction from all teachers United ISD will claim the honorable distinction of being a 2010 recognized school district!