Have you ever been excited to learn about a particular topic, only to attend the session and find yourself disappointed? Perhaps the material was overwhelming or lacked alignment with the outlined ...
One of the questions that I have been struggling with over the past year in terms of thinking about our schools is — — what is the role of a standardized curriculum in preparing our children to be ...
Looks like Bill Gates, having totally solved the common standards problem, mastered the vexing “teacher evaluation using student test data” challenge, and designed right-sized schools, is now moving ...
In the post-NCLB age when schools have (to some extent) made the shift to digital and personalized learning is the new meme, what in the world is curriculum? Thirty years ago, a school board adopted ...
What Is a Curricular Alignment? Curricular alignment is the process of aligning a program’s curriculum with its goals. It is a part of a high-level backwards design approach to the design of an entire ...
Curriculum development remains a sensitive enough topic. Policy makers, education specialists, curriculum developers, officials of official agencies responsible for promoting curriculum loading, ...
This interview focuses on a chapter from A Nation at Risk +40, a report by the Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) that looks back at the birth, struggles, and future of the modern school ...