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"Among the curriculum innovations Williamson examines are High Tech High, a charter school network in San Diego that integrates technical and academic education; Opening Minds, a "competence-based" curriculum used in 200 British secondary schools; and Quest to Learn, a "high school for digital kids" in New York City (with a sister school in Chicago). He also describes two major partnerships: the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which advocates for "21st century readiness" for American students; and the Whole Education Alliance in Britain, a network of "third sector" educational organizations."

"when you look deeper, curriculum can be a foundation for the culture because it's representative of how students are interacting with learning on a daily basis. To that end, creating a positive school culture requires that students play a part in curriculum design and implementation."

Resources from Heidi Hayes Jacobs Curriculum 21

"So what would a lesson for students look like if it was inspired by something shared from the teacher's iPod? The purpose of this page is to answer that question. It contains many writing across the curriculum lessons created by many amazing teachers from nearly all curriculum areas. Each lesson is tied to the writing process, the writing traits and a "mentor text" which, in each poetry lesson below, is the song and its lyrics. Read, enjoy, and give some of them a try. We will consistently be adding great lessons to this page. Perhaps yours will be one of them."

"The UDL Curriculum Toolkit is a web-based platform that allows for the development and publication of web-based curricula and other content built according to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)."

"The Teacher's Desk Reference is designed to meet the needs of general and special education teachers and to assist them as they face the challenges of teaching increasingly diverse groups of learners. The adaptation process, strategies, and examples provided are appropriate for students at all grade levels and may be applied to all subject areas of the curriculum. Call 812-855-9396 to inquire about bulk discounts on orders of 100 copies or more."

"Build Literacy-Based, Anti-Bias Learning Plans. Teaching Tolerance's Perspectives for a Diverse America is a literacy-based curriculum that marries anti-bias social justice content with the rigor of the Common Core State Standards."

"This is a virtual place for folks interested in learning to "operationalize TPACK" (Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge) using curriculum-based learning activity types ('LATs'), teaching strategies, and performance assessments. The curricula in which we are developing and refining learning activity type and teaching strategies taxonomies appear on the left"

"Our school is an inclusive school. Students involved in general education; students with mild, moderate, and significant disabilities; and students considered talented and gifted learn together and from each other. Therefore, we use and adapt Massachusetts Mathematical and English Language Arts Curriculum Frameworks to help all students learn and succeed. "

"Below are links to various SLA UbDs."

Blog post from Grant Wiggins

"The Ohio Department of Education is committed to providing a wide variety of documents in formats that can be easily viewed on popular electronic readers. This will include Ohio's new Model Curriculum and Academic Content Standards, which we are actively working to convert into e-reader files"

Mapping Media to the Curriculum is a website created by Wesley Fryer to accompany and support his eBook, "Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing." 

"Instead of mass-produced textbooks, the more than 3,100 sophomores in the state's largest district are learning from an online curriculum developed by their teachers over the summer with free software distributed over the web. "

Arne Duncan's address to an ASCD group

"MobyMax is the first and only completely integrated curriculum and teacher tools system. From MobyMax's automatic placement tests and corresponding lessons to automatic IEP reporting, MobyMax is a real timesaver for teachers. In addition to math and ELA subjects, Moby is adding Science and Social Studies...without increasing our price!"

Olmsted Falls City Schools Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment website - where information on their OIP process is shared

Olmsted Falls Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment site

"SAS Curriculum Pathways is provided at no cost to students and educators in traditional, virtual and home schools, as well as other teaching and learning environments."