Enduring Understandings: Seeing the Forest through the Trees
Curriculum Development, PD Team Insights | June 17, 2020
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
Curriculum Development, PD Team Insights, Remote Learning, Standards, School Leadership | June 15, 2020
Written by Amber Villa-Zang and Kelby Zenor, Faria Education Group“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... Asking Essential Questions to Inspire Lifelong Learning
Written by Megan Davenport, Faria Education Group How 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...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...Content and Skills: Balancing Depth vs. Breadth
Curriculum Development, PD Team Insights | June 10, 2020
Written by Megan Davenport, Faria Education Group When 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...