Targeted Professional Development for Quality Curriculum Design and Mapping:
Making It a Reality in Your School or District
Whether you are just starting the mapping process or working to take it to the next level, we offer an array of professional development services to help you successfully implement Curriculum Mapping in your school or district.
We have expanded our services to include short-term and long-term contracts to help you customize professional development for your staff.
Members of the Curriculum Designers Faculty have worked with public and private schools, post-secondary institutions, service centers, state departments, and organizations to provide a wide variety of customized services.
Our professional development is organized around the four critical phases* to mapping:
I. Laying the Foundation
The prologue to mapping, Establishing the reasons for mapping, and Creating a Shared Vision.
II. Launching the Process / Getting Started
Ensuring Long-Term Support, Creating Individual Maps, Initiating the Review Process, Developing Consensus Maps, and Master Mapping Strategies
III. Maintaining, Sustaining and Integrating Mapping into the System
Establishing Benchmark Assessments, Merging Assessment Results into Maps, Integrating Active Literacy, Developing an Implementation Map/Plan, Making the HUB work: Integrating Other Initiatives
IV. Advanced Mapping Tasks
Integrating 21st Century Skills, Replacing Dated Curriculum, Upgrading to Contemporary Assessment Types, and Rethinking School Formats and Structures.
∗ “Professional Development for Curriculum Mapping: Modules and Maps for Effective Implementation” (ASCD) by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Dr. Ann Johnson.
