Educational Theory, Research & History
Getting Started With Rigorous Curriculum Design: How School Districts Are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core
Larry Ainsworth, Kristin R. Anderson
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Overview
School districts are implementing the Rigorous Curriculum Design (RCD) process to redesign their curricula to prepare students for success on the coming Common Core national assessments. Each chapter of Getting Started With Rigorous Curriculum Design will provide educators with “collective wisdom” — insights and ideas to enrich and expand understandings they may not have yet come to on their own.The RCD framework is a clearly laid out, step-by-step process that is welcomed by educators for its linearity. It begins with five foundational steps: Prioritize the Common Core State Standards; Name the Units of Study; Assign the Standards to the Units—Priority and Supporting; Prepare a Yearlong Pacing Calendar; Create the Unit Planning Organizer.
Synopsis
School districts are now successfully implementing the Rigorous Curriculum Design process to redesign their curricula, fulfilling the promise of the Common Core and preparing students for success on the coming national assessments. Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design provides educators with insights and ideas to enrich and expand understandings they may not have yet come to on their own. The Rigorous Curriculum Design framework is a clearly laid out, step-by-step process that is welcomed by educators for its linearity. It begins with five foundational steps that need to take place before design teams develop each unit of study for a particular grade level or course: Prioritize the Common Core State Standards; Name the units of study; Assign the standards to the units; Prepare a year-long pacing calendar; and Create the unit planning organizer. Because the Common Core and the new national assessments are entirely changing the educational landscape, it is imperative that districts and schools do not wait to implement. Educators need to begin now to really get to know these standards through reading, questioning, discussing, processing, and applying the Common Core in the context of the assessment guiding documents. How our nation's students perform on the new national assessments will become the primary accountability measure for our educators. The Rigorous Curriculum Design model is: A comprehensive framework that intentionally aligns standards, assessment, instruction, curriculum, and data analysis within each unit of study; The Leadership and Learning Center's recommended structure for effectively implementing the Common Core State Standards; Units of study that are intentionally designed to meet the rigor of the Common Core; Designed to invest in the expertise of school districts' educators and leaders to create the curricula they themselves will implement in their own schools; A flexible "road map" that school systems can customize to closely meet their needs and preferences, not a rigid or prescriptive procedure that allows for no variation or modification. We are creating positive change in schools by bridging the critical gap between research and effective application of best practices. Based on the groundbreaking 90/90/90 Schools.Book Details
Published
August 7, 2013
Publisher
Lead and Learn Press
Pages
184
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781935588405