At the end of every academic year, there is reflection and adjustment to curriculum to be made. As schools reflect on curriculum, instruction, and student outcomes of the year, consider these steps to to maintain the quality of your curriculum maps and identify...
Written by Kelly McCurdy, Atlas Team Like many earnest educators, I spent March of 2020 scouring the internet for reputable best practices for teaching in a completely virtual classroom. I hoped to pivot to what my region called “comprehensive distance learning” with...
A Concept-Based Curriculum is one rooted in three-dimensions: what students will know, do, and understand. While this is an intuitive model to consider when mapping a course or unit of study, applying theory to practice, or rather, concept to practice, requires...
Written by Kelly McCurdy, Atlas Team Competency based learning and assessment have been a low humming buzz in progressive education circles since the 1980’s, with hints and foreshadowing as early as the 60’s and 70’s (Nodine, 2016). Competency based grading lives...
Written by Kelly McCurdy, Atlas Professional Development There’s a shift in the winds, with dollars behind it This CTE Month, things are a little different. This February, in addition to rounding out our second year in a global pandemic, the United States is facing an...
Written by Kelly McCurdy, Atlas Team In addition to the traditional growth moments that contribute to the energizing nature of education, the years in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have and will continue to present new opportunities for novice and veteran teachers...
