Curriculum is the particular course or plan of study in a school. It consists of learning activities and assignments used to achieve course goals or standards. Instruction, on the other hand, might well be considered the "art" of the education process. It involves teachers' decisions about what strategies to use when delivering the curriculum. In short, curriculum is the "what" and instruction is the "how."

As one of the core issues of schooling, a school or district's curriculum poses numerous challenges to school leaders, from aligning the curriculum with standards to sequencing the curriculum across individual grade levels.

Here are some resources to help school leaders address these challenges.

Resources

A Distillation of Subject-Matter Content for the Subject-Areas of Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science, by John S. Kendall, Christina Snyder, Michael Schintgen, Angela Wahlquist, and Robert J. Marzano

McREL Eisenhower Consortium for Math & Science