By Megan Davenport, Rubicon International Sitting down to begin mapping your curriculum is a daunting task—where do you even begin? There are many entry points, but here I walk you through one way that the process can look in order to help you begin your own work!...
Teaching kids to think is a fun but challenging topic. Students need to be able to take in ideas, process them, and then distill them into new ideas. However, how students learn to think can be vastly different, and unique to the person teaching them. This idea...
By Amber Villa-Zang, Rubicon International In his book Hacking the Common Core, Mike Fisher debunks some of the common misinterpretations of the Common Core Standards. He does this by clarifying what the standards actually ask students to know, understand and do...
If someone came up and asked you, “what is curriculum” – would you have an answer? Would you need time to reflect? As we support schools and districts in creating their curriculum maps and units of instruction, we have come to understand that the answer to this...
Congratulations on moving forward with your new Curriculum Mapping initiative! You’ve set a goal, perhaps you have your Atlas site up and running, and you’re ready to break it in! Similar to signing up for your first marathon, one step is to certainly buy a pair of...
By Kelby Zenor, Rubicon International Here at Rubicon, we have started the process of using design thinking as the model for curriculum development and unit design. Over the past year, we have used our Curriculum Creation Process, a modified design thinking model, to...
