curriculum
Living in Beta: New Advisory Program Helps Teens Learn With Purpose
What if high school helped you pursue your passions and live and learn with purpose and intention? A new program, Living in Beta, is working to make this a reality.
Where Lifelong Skills and Curriculum Meet
By: Tynetta Harris. Focusing on the development of 36 cognitive skills is the key to deeper, lifelong learning and post high school success.
The Path to Reading Requires Quality Curriculum
High-quality, aligned instructional materials, particularly foundational skills curricula, are integral to addressing reading literacy challenges and ensuring all students have access to the skills they need for success in college and career.
Organizing Your School As A List Of Courses Doesn’t Work for Learners
A list of courses will not help young people (in high school or college) find and begin to make their unique contribution. It’s time to move beyond the historical structures and practices what we inherited in education and start doing the right thing for kids.
Dialogue on a Content-Rich Elementary Experience
A blog I created sharing a taxonomy of views on personalized learning ranging from content-centric to student-centered resulted in this spirited email dialogue with education leaders about the role of content in developing language proficiency.
Integrated Curriculum: Why it Matters, and Where to Find It
Why do 95% of high schools retain discipline-based structure and staffing decades after the cost has been shown to significantly outweigh the benefit? Here, I look at a number of schools that provide good examples of ways to break the mold.
Preparing #LifeReady Students: Creating a Globally-Sourced, Locally-Relevant Curriculum
By: Eric Davis, Aparna Rae and Stephanie Leite. Our organization is working hard to prepare #LifeReady global citizens through place-based (and project-based) learning. In this post, we take a look at how we're doing it.
What is Curriculum? From Managed Instruction to Personalized Learning
Teachers have always supplemented core curriculum to meet the needs of students, but the digital classroom of today has created a blended, mix-and-match, DIY world of education. In this environment, what is curriculum, and who develops it?
Great Educators Teach the Whole Child: Integrating SEL In the Classroom
By: Abbas Manjee. As a teacher in an at-risk New York City school, I discovered the importance of incorporating social and emotional learning in the classroom to help students become informed citizens and productive members of society.
Open Up: High Quality Standards-Aligned Math Curriculum
The newly launched nonprofit Open Up Resources offers openly licensed, standards-aligned educational resources that are accessible to all students, regardless of first language or special needs.