Rhode Island teachers and leaders have worked with colleagues across New England to develop common curricula and related state assessments. All teachers must know what to teach and how to best instruct and assess every student. State, district, and school leaders share the responsibility of guiding this process so that every Rhode Island student's high school diploma clearly represents their proven abilities to read, write, problem solve, and think critically. To do this, RIDE will work with districts to:

• Develop and implement, in collaboration with school leadership teams and union leadership, an articulated PreK-12 curriculum for all students that meets or exceeds state-mandated content and performance standards.
   
• Require, finance, and support differentiated instructional strategies, materials, and assessments to ensure that all students have opportunities to meet state and district performance standards.
   
• Provide information, programs, and resources that teachers can use to redirect and focus their instruction to address the full range of students.
   
• Implement in each school multiple measures for evaluation and assessment of learning that are frequent, rigorous, and aligned with the district curriculum.
   
• Approve performance-based exit criteria for high-school graduation.
   
• Ensure that secondary schools function in a manner that provides every student with multiple opportunities to achieve and demonstrate mandated levels of proficiency prior to graduation.

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