Curriculum Mapping overview on Sept. 20, 2013 for MURSD on plans for the year, as well as Atlas Rubicon.

1. MURSD
Curriculum Mapping
Kick-off!
September 20, 2013

2. The inspiration for our work.

3. The Game Plan
1. Why Map?
2. Steps to Implementation
3. Curriculum Map Format
4. Phases of Mapping
5. End Goals for 2013-2014
6. Resources
7. Atlas Rubicon Overview

4. Why map our curriculum?
Instructional Excellence
MURSD Strategic Goals-
• Align all K-12 ELA and
Math curriculum to the
Common Core Standards
using a common, clear
template.
Why else should we map
our curriculum?

5. “Touchdown
MURSD
Students!”
Improve
Student
Learning
Foster
Professional
Collaboration
Communicate
Expectations
Accountability
Support
District and
School
Initiatives
Align to Common
Core Standards
Both
Horizontal and
Vertical
Alignment

6. Steps to Implementation
Stages Actions
Awareness:
Know it
Learn about the Common
Core Standards, Backwards
Design, and Curriculum
Mapping
Application and
Experimentation:
Try it
Begin mapping the
curriculum using the online
database. Use common
planning time to collaborate
on curriculum design.
Ownership:
Own it, Believe it
Embed curriculum review
into everyday practice. Use
assessments to reflect on
skills/content/standard.
Advocacy/Innovati
on:
Spread it, Improve
it
Use online database of
curriculum, resources from
colleagues to collaborate and
improve instruction.

7. Curriculum Map Roster
•What are the big ideas and
understandings students will
keep with them for life?
•The big ideas
•They are the heart of the
discipline
•They have lasting value and are
real-world
Enduring
Understandings
•What we want students to
think about?
•Get to the heart of the matter--
-why do students need to know
this? How can this help them in
life?
•Recur throughout the student’s
learning experiences
Essential
Questions
•What standards will the
students be assessed on for
end of year assessments?
•MA State Standards
•Common Core Standards
Standards
•What we want students to
know and understand?
•Concept (Statement)
•Bullets targeted content
points, key
facts, events, knowledge to be
addressed
Content
•What we want students to be
able to do?
•Starts with an action verb
•Has to be observable and
measurable
•Bloom’s taxonomy of skills
•“Students will be able to…”
Skills
•How do we know the students
learned these content and
skills?
•Demonstration of learning
•Evidence of student’s
knowledge.
Assessments
•What instructional strategies
and learning activities help our
students acquire the content
and skills?
•Differentiated
•Authentic
•Engaging
•Student-centered
Learning
Activities
•What resources are available
to support instruction?
•Online resources
•Textbooks, Books E-books
•Manipulatives
•Videos
•Articles
•Podcasts
Resources

8. Forward Progress 2013-
2014• Curriculum Mapping Plan
Roll-Out
• Curriculum “Power Team”
Trained
• School leaders trained
• Online Database Set-Up
for all users
Quarter 1
• Quality Curriculum
Mapping Overview
• Understanding by Design
(UbD) Training
• Unpack the Common
Core standards and
realign current
curriculum
• Online database training
Quarter 2
• Revise current
curriculum maps to
align to Common Core
• Use UbD to create
Essential
Questions/Enduring
Understandings
• Input revised
curriculum into the
Online Database.
Quarter 3

9. End Goals
• “To begin with the end in mind means to start
with a clear understanding of your destination. It
means to know where you’re going so that you
better understand where you are now so that the
steps you take are always in the right direction.”
Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

10. End Goals 2013-2014
• Align ELA and Math to the Common Core K-12
• Train all staff in UbD Backwards Design
• Complete Stage 1 of Curriculum Mapping Process
– Identify WHAT are we teaching:
• Common Core Standards, Big Ideas, Essential
Questions, Content, Skills

11. Resources and Training
Coaching
• Trained Power Team
• Webinars
• PD Days
• Curriculum Meetings
• Shared Resources (on Atlas)
Teamwork
• Working Together with
Common Goals
• Common Template
• Common Assessments
• Vertical Alignment
• Horizontal Alignment

12. Atlas Rubicon Online Database
is a tool to help all of us:
• Align to the common core
• Map our curriculum
• Collaborate
• Monitor our progress
• Improve our instructional
practices
• It is a WIN for us and a WIN
for student learning.

13. Welcome to Atlas Video

14. Log Into Rubicon Atlas

15. Atlas: Curriculum Examples

16. Atlas Introduction Videos

17. Atlas Webinars

18. Course Development