Chapters International

How can we create a living breathing curriculum responsive to the learners in our care? How can support a culture of collaboration between teachers to develop a pathway of engaging learning experiences both vertically and across the school year? Mapping is curricular collaboration. Mapping is learning architecture as a faculty lays out and reviews curriculum both vertically and across the school year. By developing timely and engaging maps teachers discuss best practices, share resources and improve the quality of learning experiences across a school K-12. Parents benefit when they are aware of specific learning targets for their children. Students are connected to their learning experiences over time when there is a constant flow of knowledge from term to term and year to year. Being able to capture assessments, lesson plans, and best practices within one place can improve teachers instruction. Our sessions will show how you can keep curriculum alive and vibrant with ongoing review and timely entries into our units and lesson plans.

5th November, 2022 - Laying the Foundation and Cultivating a Culture for Mapping

Understand the power of the Four Phase Curriculum Mapping Model for Implementation
Establish a meaningful purpose for curriculum mapping in your school
Motivate faculty to develop maps and to collaborate with colleagues
Define the elements in a curriculum map/unit plan
Align standards, mission and profile of a graduate
Selecting a software platform

12th November, 2022 - Launching the Mapping Process to Engage Learners

Write engaging essential questions
Lay out content and skills as learning targets
Develop formative and summative assessments
Upgrade assessments and units to reflect modern literacies.
Create learning experiences, lesson plans, and activities for implementation

19th November, 2022 - Setting up Gap Analysis and Mapping Reviews

Organize and conduct vertical reviews for gap analysis
Organize and conduct cross-grade level reviews for gap analysis
Growing a living breathing modern curriculum map
Determine what to cut, keep and create each year in the curriculum
Engaging learners in reviewing maps
Communicating curriculum with families
Preparing new teachers for mapping

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is internationally recognized for her seminal work in contemporary curriculum design, vertical mapping and modernizing responsive school environments. She prizes her work directly with schools in all settings of every kind, whether public, private, secular, sectarian, on-site, or virtual. Dr. Jacobs’s models on curriculum mapping world are the basis for software solutions used throughout the world. Dr. Jacobs has engaged in projects with a wide array of both national and international organizations and companies such as ASCD, NAESP, Learning Forward, the European Council of International Schools, the Near East School Association, the College Board, ADK International Sino-Canadian Schools in China, New Zealand’s Learning Network, the Kennedy Center, the Peace Corps World Wise Schools, Carnegie Hall, Australia ISV, the United Nations Council on Teaching about the UN, the Near East School Association, the International Baccalaureate, the NY State Higher Education Commission, the CCSSO workgroup on Global Competencies, AASA, Newsela, Amazon Studios, and the Waterford Institute. The author of thirteen books including the best-selling Bold Moves for Schools:How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments (ASCD) with co-author, Marie Alcock. Dr. Jacobs is laser-focused on how professionals, learners, and families can make choices to best prepare students for the future and is currently in collaboration with Allison Zmuda on developing tools, approaches, and a book on how to move forward post-pandemic with fresh approaches and building on lessons learned.