Collective Teacher Efficacy and School-Wide Outcomes

Articulated Curriculum, Blog, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Trak, Effectiveness, Teacher Clarity | February 23, 2022

According to Dr. John Hattie’s educational research examining hundreds of factors that influence student learning, what has the greatest impact on student achievement is collective teacher efficacy. Collective teacher efficacy is the idea of teachers sharing a common...

Curriculum Meetings: A Key to Mapping Success

Curriculum Development, CT Schools | February 21, 2022

I have been on both sides: the teacher who receives reminders from the principal to work on Curriculum Trak and the curriculum coordinator who is trying to motivate teachers to update their curriculum maps. I must admit that in my full-time teaching years, the...

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…

Blog, Curriculum Development, Decision-Making | February 3, 2022

Decisions have consequences. Educators live and die by this maxim. While there might be some inconsequential decisions (i.e. – what side of your toast do you butter), most of the decisions we make (even as minute as decaf or regular), have the potential to change the...

Course Maps are About More than the What

Curriculum Development, Blog, School Culture |

When you ask someone why mapping a course is important, the most common answer is related to helping teachers know what to teach and when. I would argue, however, that if that is a school’s primary purpose, they are investing a lot of wasted time. And while yes, a...

COVID-19 and CT Mapping

Blog, Curriculum Development, Technology Integration | January 13, 2022

As COVID-19 caused the closure of our school in March 2020, we found ourselves in a dilemma. How do we cover enough material to help our students learn what they need to know for that educational cycle? How would we confront the next school year as our teachers had to...

Is It Really Curriculum?

Blog, Curriculum Development | December 16, 2021

The word curriculum manifests itself in many forms, and people bounce the word about in today’s education realms as if it had multiple definitions. Merriam-Webster defines curriculum as, “Curriculum is from New Latin (a post-medieval form of Latin used mainly in...