This is the second post about how to develop a curriculum review system in one’s school. It deals with answering questions about the culture of one’s school and how folks deal with change. As the first post on the big picture, these are questions for community members to work through before designing their system.

1) How does your school make decisions?

2) Who is involved?

3) How does your school handle change?

4) What are the strengths and weaknesses of your school culture?

5) How can you build on the strengths in (re)designing your system for curriculum creation and review?

6) How can you overcome or lessen the weaknesses?

7) How do your administrators and teachers value the curriculum in the grand scheme?

8) Where are you with your teaming and collaboration at grade levels and departments?

9) What is the level of trust in your teams?

10) How ready are they to divide the units to be developed or reviewed by just a few team members?

11) What other questions (and answers) come to mind?