Written by Megan Davenport, FariaPDWhen I sit down to write curriculum, I usually start by looking at the standards to determine how to organize and address them all in a year. It is a big task and something that takes a lot of careful thought. The end result is a...
Written by Amber Villa-Zang and Kelby Zenor, FariaPD “An excellent education is not just what gets taught today. It’s the cumulative effect of a coherent, cumulative, thoughtfully sequenced, and knowledge-rich curriculum that broadens and deepens over time, within and...
written by Megan Davenport, FariaPDHow much do you remember from your middle school science class? What about your high school English or History classes? I have various memories from these courses, like writing a screenplay or using Punnett squares to predict whether...
Written by Marie Mugabe, FariaPD If you are like most schools around the world, you have likely spent the last few months scrambling to adjust your typical, in-person classes to a remote learning environment. You have spent countless hours adjusting units and...
Written by Megan Davenport, FariaPDWhen writing curriculum, many teachers start by selecting which standards will need to be taught during a given unit. This is certainly no easy task, and the end result is often a lot of information that students will need to master....
Written by Damian Bacchoo and Leila Holmyard. It is well documented that wars and natural disasters can have a dramatic impact on our linguistic landscape. Shock, anger and a search for humour in dark times drive neologisms as people seek to come to terms with their...
