Planning Basics

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  Building a Strong Curricular Foundation.pdf

  Before constructing the curricular units of study, it is necessary to first build a strong foundation. Otherwise, curriculum design teams are erecting a superstructure upon an uncertain base. Here is a brief description of each of the five foundational steps.
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  Design the Curricular Units, From Start to Finish .pdf

  With the standards foundation in place, design each curricular unit, from start to finish. Here is a synopsis of each of the twelve sequential steps for doing so. Be sure to include all of these elements (except the weekly and daily planners) on the agreed-upon unit planning organizer.
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  Implement Each Unit of Study.pdf

  When the unit planning organizers are completed and ready to use, implement each of the units according to the scheduled pacing calendars. Here is a brief description of the fourteen steps for doing so.
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  Implementing Rigorous Curriculum Design in the Seven Steps Forward.pdf

  Larry Ainsworth's Rigorous Curriculum Design curriculum development process and ALCA's Seven Steps Forward content, services, and professional association focus are highly compatible. Combined they provide different layers essential for systemic implementation.
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  L1.1 Planning — Describe What and How a Room can be Used

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  L1.3 Planning — Describe how Web Presence can Communication

  Describe the benefits and the options available to support communication with peers, learners, parents, and the local and broader community at large. Be able to include in the description how the following can be used to support collaborative communication:

  • Calendars
  • Online Discussions
  • Access to Resources
  • Web publishing
  • Forms
  • Location Resources
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  LADDER — Integrating Rigorous Curriculum Design and Seven Steps Forward.pdf

  Larry Ainsworth's Rigorous Curriculum Design curriculum development process and ALCA's Seven Steps Forward content, services, and professional association focus are highly compatible. Combined they provide different layers essential for systemic implementation.
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  Learning Progression of Tasks

  This document reflects a flowchart that represents research-based frameworks (i.e., Marzano, Wiggins/McTighe, Daggett) and implementing standards mapping based on Larry Ainsworth's work.  It provides an indepth visual of elements (i.e., assessments, Blooms, frameworks, unwrapped standards) that must be considered with developing one's lesson plans
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  Learning Progression of Tasks.pdf

    
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  Plan-Do-Study-Act Applied to Rigorous Curriculum Design.pdf

  The delivery of a unit emphasizes the collaboration of PLT's addressing common pre-, post-, and formative assessments, assessment and curriculum alignment data, planning differentiated instruction, and multi-disciplinary problem/project-based learning.
  
  Potentially an educator can belong to one or more PLTs that are site, district, or multi-district-based. Multi-district PLTs can focus on shared curriculum and assessment development and implementation. Thematic PLT's can involve students conducting units allowing them to analyze or evaluate student-generated data or products (e.g., water quality data, non-fiction writing focused on local communities, creation of locally-focused virtual museums, online academic competitions using wrapped common core items).
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  Rigorous Curriculum Design Alignment Diagram .pdf

    
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  Rigor / Relevance Framework.pdf

  The Rigor/Relevance Framework is a tool developed by staff of the International Center for Leadership in Education to examine curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The Rigor/Relevance Framework is based on two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement.
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  Shewhart Continuous Improvement Cycle.pdf

  This PDSA Cycle graphic illustrates one perspective of how Larry Ainsworth's Rigorous Curriculum Design (RCD) model addresses Plan - Do - Study - Act. Although there are two PDSA Cycles in conducting a RCD unit, there is continuous data-driven reflection on actual student learning. In essence, each learning task has its own PDSA cycle feeding (assuming formative assessments are done) into the larger cycles.
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  SMART Goals Resources

  This folder contains resources used in the Standards Professional Development.
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  Unit Pacing Calendar Worksheet.pdf