Event Recap: Online Leadership Cohort, Summer 2020

Written by Megan Davenport, FariaPD One of the highlights of our summers at Faria Education Group in the Portland, Oregon, office is bringing in groups of educators from around the country and around the world to participate in the Leadership Institute. The...

5 Tips to Support English Learners Through Intentional Unit Planning

Written by Marie Mugabe, FariaPD It is generally believed that over 50% of the world’s population currently speaks more than one language (Grosjean, 2010). With this reality in mind, it is important to assess how our current practices and planning meet the needs of...

Enduring Understandings: Seeing the Forest through the Trees

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...

Curriculum is Critical: Transitioning Back to In-Person Learning

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...

Asking Essential Questions to Inspire Lifelong Learning

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...

Summer Curriculum Writing: Preparing for the New Academic Year in Response to COVID-19

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...