Oftentimes teams feel like there is a disconnect between their learning philosophies and documented curriculum. Articulating a clear definition of quality curriculum for your school or district's unique learners can be a key step in ensuring that your curriculum captures all the elements of high quality teaching and learning in which your team believes.
Articulate your curriculum definition and use it to guide your conversations for the day.
Ensure your unit expectations align with your overarching definition of quality curriculum, by reviewing current unit categories and creating definitions, examples, and expectations for each category.
Draft a unit style guide to take back to your team.
Walk through a collaborative unit review protocol to receive feedback on your own unit plan. Explore example unit review rubrics that you can tailor to you the needs of your own team.
Bring your own unit plan and walk away with ideas for strengthening your plan!
Review your current list of assessment methods and types in Atlas. Ensure that the lists match the assessment language you use at your school or district and develop clear definitions and examples for each.
Build an assessment definition guide to take back to your team.
Quality assessments are a foundational element of quality teaching and learning. In this session, we will briefly discuss the key components of building a quality assessment. You will then have time to review your own assessment and create a single-point rubric to support meaningful feedback for your learners.
Discover how Atlas AI can serve as a thought-partner in crafting curriculum sections and exploring differentiation options for diverse student needs. Learn how to leverage Atlas AI to generate ideas, support decision-making, and streamline the curriculum development process.
Want to learn some tips on reviewing and cleaning up your Atlas site? Join us as we walk through a few clean up tips. Also, take advantage of guided work time to address clean-up needs in your Atlas site.
Making the connection between unit plans and lessons brings the planned curriculum to life in the classroom. Explore how lessons can be created in Atlas and our tips for creating a lesson plan process.
What's new and what's next? In this closing session, we will preview all new and upcoming features in Atlas and your team will have time to prioritize relevant ideas to apply to your own curriculum.
