How Students Used Math to Help Austin’s Homeless Population
Blog, Curriculum Design, Educator Insights, Project-Based Learning, School Mission, Service Learning | February 24, 2023
Prior to starting the school year in 2019, I spent a lot of time thinking about how I could help my students make meaningful connections to real world applications of math, while also building empathy. Implementing a project of this sort does not always lend itself to...
Interview with Christina Sasso – Curriculum Design and Mapping
Blog, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Mapping, Educator Insights, Podcast, Student Outcomes, The Teacher's Lounge | December 21, 2022
What follows is an interview with Christina Sasso, a teacher and curriculum developer and a long-time friend of Curriculum Trak. She shares her thoughts and some practical tips for designing and planning curriculum, especially in the Language Arts classroom. To listen...
Initial Steps to Robust and Rigorous Curriculum Guides
Editor’s note: Dr. Long and her team at Long Educational Consulting, LLC, will be hosting a free webinar for Curriculum Trak schools on June 29, at 1:30 PM (Eastern) entitled “How to Successfully Launch and Sustain a Curriculum Mapping Effort.” Dr....
Figuring Out What Really Matters in Curriculum Planning
Editor’s note: This article by Dan Beerens was originally published in the CACE Blog on June 26, 2017. I often joke in workshops that, as teachers, the day we return from spring break is when we kick in to “fast teaching” mode! We do this because, while we were...