How does your school create and review the curriculum? Who participates? What are their roles? What are the protocols for the meetings? Suppose you have followed this blog, the Shifting Our Schools podcast, or the Ed Tech Co-Op podcast (restarting in a month). In that case, you probably say, “there goes David again talking about collaboration and curriculum…”. Yes, here I go again because I have landed at a school where our principal is all over using the curriculum collaboration process, among many other structures and systems, to shift our school. 🙂

Our principal Dr. Dan Keller is now developing the guidelines for how to review units of study. Over the past few years, he had the teachers create four transdisciplinary, concept-based “super units” per grade level. A significant shift has occurred, so now it is time to polish the process and fill in where there are some gaps.

 See below for the guidelines used at the Saigon South International School to create a new curriculum.

If you are new to this blog, I have posted the following resources on curriculum development over the years. There are several Ed Tech Co-Op shows on this topic as well.


Saigon South International School ES Curriculum Development System

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