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Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Brian Sevier- Standards Project Director

Colorado's District Sample Curriculum Project aims to empower educators to create curriculum materials based on standards, fostering successful implementation of the CAS. This project brings together educators to develop diverse samples reflecting school districts' needs.

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Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Brian Sevier- Standards Project Director

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  1. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Brian Sevier- Standards Project Director http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/index.asp

  2. Rationale/origins • From its beginnings, the field of educators across the state has been the force behind this project. This will continue to be the case as the project and its outcomes are: • Driven by the field • Generated by the field • Relevant to the field • As the next step in standards support for the state, the project is oriented around three fundamental goals: • Facilitating successful implementation of the CAS • Helping build the capacity of Colorado educators to create curriculum materials based on the standards • Bringing together Colorado’s educators to create a variety of samples that reflect the diversity of our school districts Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project

  3. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Project phases and major outcomes Phase One: • Work with Colorado educators to create unit overview samples based on the CAS for all subjects and grades. Phase Two: • Conduct area workshops across the state to build capacity around the process and products associated with the Project Phase Three: • Work with Colorado educators to create units based on the overview samples for all subjects and grades based on select unit overviews

  4. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Phase One outcomes Participants • 500+ educator participants • 47 of 64 counties represented • 61 of 178 districts represented Products • 670 unit overviews- all content areas (k-12) and STEM (1st, 8th, high school) • Coded to the CAS • Teacher/educator authorship and district affiliation on every page of unit overviews Postings • January 31st- Standards and Instructional website-Individual content area and Sample Curriculum Project webpages • Coming months eNet Colorado access (DREAM Marketplace)

  5. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project Sample unit overviews The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) defines curriculum as an organized plan of instruction for engaging students in mastering the standards. The samples: • Represent the translation of the CAS into unit overviews for all (10) content areas • Illuminate possibilities for sequencing grade-level expectations (GLEs) and content-specific standards across courses/years • Offer one possible foundation for exploring standards-based unit and lesson-plan development A closer look at a 4th Grade social studies example to: • Highlight major components of the template • Explain key terms • Offer possible uses for the samples

  6. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project • Samples: • The samples offer organizing structures for addressing the grade-level expectations (GLEs), evidence outcomes (EOs) and 21st century skills that build students' mastery of the standards at each grade level. • Design reflects emphasis on concepts and content in Colorado Academic Standards • Centers around ideas • Supports teaching to greater intellectual depth • Emphasizes knowledge TRANSFER and APPLICATION • Generalizations (Big understandings) transfer • Concepts transfer • Skills transfer • Design reflects feedback from educators across the state with technical assistance from Dr. Lynn Erickson • This is Colorado’s Template!

  7. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum ProjectNext Steps-Phase three • Goal: • To bring together teachers and instructional leaders to use the 700 curriculum samples (unit overviews) to create full instructional units at every grade and for all content areas. • Outcomes: • Produce at least one full instructional unit at every grade and for every content area that reflects a model of educators working together to plan for the instruction of all students.

  8. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum ProjectNext Steps- Phase three • Team Construction • 2 general education teachers (content specialists) • 1 ELL teacher • 1 Gifted and Talented teacher • 1 Special education teacher • 1 Title One teacher (k-5 workshop only) • Team Work • Individual teams will work together to develop one unit for a given grade and content area. Teams will use select unit overviews from the 700 samples to create units for all grades and content areas. Logistically speaking, this will require 60 educators at every grade level to cover all (10) content areas- 20 General Education, 10 ELL, 10 Special Ed, 10 Gifted and Talented, and 10 Title One

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