Planning our long-anticipated summer family road trip from Portland, Oregon to White Bear Lake, Minnesota has made me examine my personal philosophy behind Curriculum Mapping. Odd, right? In life I am a planner, which makes mapping my curriculum something I really...
Written by Megan Davenport, FariaPD THREE PERSPECTIVES ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM PLANNING Even as a lower elementary teacher, lover of language, and avid reader, it is difficult to find words that capture the phenomenon of reading. Watching my students first...
How we assess students is a critical element in how we educate students. Thinking through assessments, in terms of the ideal mix we hope to use, can be complex. When we consider a mix of formative and summative assessment methods, different depths of rigor, and...
The mantra encapsulates the rich but straightforward approach to mapping presented by Julie Dietrich of St. Peter’s Lutheran School (Colombus, IN) in the Curriculum Spark webinar, Creating a Continuous Curriculum Improvement Cycle. Just try saying it a few times,...
Every school has their own culture and history to be taken into account when introducing or reinvigorating curriculum initiatives. We met Jean Levis, from Greenwood School in Florida, this past April when her team came to the Rubicon Leadership Institute. She spent...
How one teacher uses an opening activity to break the ice with her students on the 1st day of class while building classroom community! When students walk into your class at the beginning of the year they all have the same basic questions: Will l like this class? Will...
