Teaching & Learning - Barrington Community Unit 220 School District

Committed to developing and supporting instructional programs, as well as the use of data to inform instruction, the Department of Teaching & Learning supports the district in the following ways:

Supports the development and implementation of curriculum PreK-12+
Develops and provides professional learning for staff
Supports a strong continuum of services for all students including, but not limited to Extended Services and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
Manages data and assessment for the district
Provides oversight to Barrington 220’s language programming
Supports fine, visual, and performing arts programming

curriculum & Programs

Barrington 220 has a robust curriculum review cycle in order to ensure curriculum is dynamic and meeting the needs of students.

curriculum review process

Data & Assessment

Barrington 220 believes understanding students is much more than a single score on an assessment. We strive to ascertain with some depth the uniqueness of our students and the talents and gifts they offer, some of which are not measurable on a test. While we recognize the importance of the totality of student, we also hold as our mission to produce college and career ready students with a strong academic foundation. Our assessment program is designed to achieve that end.

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Early College Credit

Elementary STEM

Extended Services

Fine, Visual & Performing Arts

Fine arts instruction begins at the elementary level with weekly experiences in general music and visual arts, and continues throughout elementary school. During middle school, instruction in drama, band, orchestra, choir and visual arts is offered to students, alongside after school arts opportunities.

By the end of their time in Barrington 220, approximately 1,400 high school students a year narrow their art focus at BHS, taking classes in areas such as dance, TV production, theater, choir, instrumental music, ceramics, woodworking, digital arts, graphic design, photography, drawing and painting, and jewelry making.

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Health & Wellness

Language Programs

Barrington 220 is proud to offer a plethora of language opportunities for all students. Barrington values greatly and understands the benefits that being bilingual and/or multilingual can offer our students as we prepare them to be contributing members to our global world. The language opportunities we offer have a positive effect on our students intellectual growth, problem solving, and creative thinking skills. We pride ourselves on being able to both enrich and enhance each students educational experience with our many language opportunities.

Barrington 220 offers special language programs, which begin in kindergarten. These programs include: Chinese Immersion, Spanish Dual Language and One Way Immersion for Spanish-speaking English Language Learners.

Students who are not enrolled in any of those programs can begin taking world language classes in 6th grade. They can choose from five languages which include: Mandarin, Spanish, French, German and Latin. Courses for all five languages are available in grades 6-12. Please watch this video for detailed information on how to choose a language that is appropriate for your student.

Literacy

Math

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

Science

The Barrington 220 science curriculum is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and follows the National Research Council's Framework for K-12 Science Education's vision for proficiency in science learning. The standards for all grade levels encompass each of the three dimensions