Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum

Extend the abilities of teachers and students alike with focused training on sophisticated curriculum design!

Complementing the best-selling second edition of The Parallel Curriculum, this all-inclusive facilitator's guide is an indispensable resource for anyone planning, designing, or conducting curriculum development training on the Parallel Curriculum Model.

This easy-to-use workbook offers step-by-step instructions aligned with the content of the core book. Staff developers will learn how to support training sessions to help educators design and implement curriculum along four parallels. Ideal for facilitating book study groups, seminars, and professional development events, the book provides:

• A complete training program of 53 workshops, including 12 workshops per curriculum parallel
• Scripts, agendas, activities, sample classroom scenarios, handouts, and transparencies
• Tools, resources, and strategies for designing curriculum across the four parallels

Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum is an essential handbook for leading professional training that results in enhanced teacher expertise and a multidimensional, high-quality curriculum that challenges all learners.

Cindy A. Strickland has been a teacher for twenty-five years and has worked with students of all ages, from kindergarten to master’s degree. A member of the ASCD Differentiation Faculty Cadre, Cindy works closely with Carol Ann Tomlinson and has coauthored several books and articles with her. In the past eight years, Cindy’s consulting work has taken her to forty-six states, five provinces, and three continents where she has provided workshops on topics relating to differentiation, the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM), and gifted education.
Cindy’s publications include Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum; The Parallel Curriculum Model, 2nd edition; The Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom: Applications Across the Content Areas; and In Search of the Dream: Designing Schools and Classrooms That Work for High Potential Students from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds.

Publications in differentiation include Professional Development for Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Toolkit, Exploring Differentiated Instruction, Tools for High-Quality Differentiated Instruction: An ASCD Toolkit, the ASCD online course Success with Differentiation, the book Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9 12, and a unit in the book Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 5 9.

As a former master teacher who holds current teaching certification, Kathy Tuchman Glass consults with schools and districts, presents at conferences, and teaches seminars for university and county programs delivering customized professional development. Glass has been in education for over 20 years and works with teachers at all levels in groups of varying sizes from one-on-one to entire school districts. She assists administrators and teachers with strategic planning to determine school or district objectives, and presents and collaborates on designing standards-based differentiated curriculum, crafting essential understandings and guiding questions, using compelling instructional strategies that engage all learners, incorporating various effective assessments into curriculum, using six-trait writing instruction and assessment, creating curriculum maps, and more.

In addition to this work, Glass has written Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (2009), Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (2007), and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co).