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Elementary School

Blissfield Elementary School has developed curriculum in the core content areas of mathematics, language arts, science, social studies, and the arts. These are reviewed on a regular basis and have been approved by the Blissfield Community School Board of Education.

Spanning several years, the school has continually been involved with curriculum development, review, and alignment in all core curriculum areas. This is an on-going process with all elementary staff members involved. With the exception of social studies, all core content areas have been aligned with the Michigan Curriculum Framework Standards, Benchmarks, and Content Expectations. A year-long social studies  curriculum review will begin this fall.

Curriculum summaries are provided for parents of all students at Blissfield Elementary School. Planned and executed lessons, units, and assessments are in place at all grade levels in all core academic areas providing students with equal access. The curriculum used by Blissfield Elementary School is equitably applied to all children regardless of gender, race, national origin, color, disability, or age.

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Middle School

The past several years have found the Blissfield Middle School developing its curriculum in accordance to the State of Michigan's standards and benchmarks; however the past two years have found the Blissfield Middle School rigorously aligning their curricula to meet the State of Michigan's Grade Level Content Expectations for each of the core content areas.

This year the state has approved the grade level content expectations for both science and social studies, and the Blissfield Middle School will continue to align accordingly. The science department recently selected a new textbook to aide in the dispensing of their curriculum, and the social studies department finished a year long analysis to focus in on the selection of their new textbook to help with its curriculum delivery.

Best practices will be a major emphasis as BMS explores the performance indicators for its school improvement process, and continued improvement will be stressed in the areas of lessons, units, and assessments as they pertain to each grade level content expectations. School equitably is applied to all BMS Students.

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High School

In 2006-07 time was spent examining the new Mandatory Curriculum put in place by the State of Michigan and determining how that will impact students and curriculum at BHS. This resulted in the development of two new freshmen level courses: Biology and World History. This also raised concerns for how our students will be able to meet the demands of the new curriculum within the configuration of our current six-period schedule. A committee is currently in place to consider other schedule options, including trimesters and seven periods, that might provide more flexibility and opportunities for students to take elective courses while still meeting the state requirements.

The spring in-service was used for school visitation. Staff members attended other schools to observe alternative schedules, meet with teachers in their content areas, and experience innovative teaching practices.

We followed with interest the development of the DRIVE Program recently implemented at the Middle School. Following the same concepts, and hoping to build on the success experienced at the Middle School, we created the Homework Academy which will be in place for freshmen in the fall. This program emphasizes the importance of completing assignments and its correlation to school success. In an effort to educate parents and students on these changes, we held a Freshmen Orientation Meeting on June 5.