Curriculum mapping is an ongoing process that allows teachers to document what is taught in the classroom and align it with standards to improve student achievement. It involves teachers collaborating to map out essential questions, content, skills, assessments, and lessons for each unit to identify gaps and ensure horizontal and vertical alignment. The goal is to support data-informed decision making and ensure the curriculum is meeting student needs.

1. An Introduction to: Curriculum Mapping

3. Why map? To Support Data Informed Decision Making

4. Data informed culture to improve student achievement Data drives your decisions Curriculum data aligned to standards Assessment data aligned to standards Curriculum mapping Analysis of results Written curriculum Taught curriculum State and National Local

5. Evidence Vs Claim “ Maps equal data … Data equals facts and figures … Facts and figures show trends … And with this knowledge, we can give ‘all the above’ meaning by looking at the trends and comparing it to other data bases .” Curriculum Mapping Conference, 2003

9. Clarify (Revisit) Goals and Purpose * From Assessment in the Learning Organization, Shifting the Paradigm Page 27 - Edited by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, ASCD 1995 Plan Take Action / Experiment Assess and Gather Evidence Study / Reflect / Evaluate Feedback Spiral Modify Actions Based on New Knowledge Clarify Goals and Purpose Plan Take Action /Experiment Assess / Gather Evidence Study / Reflect / Evaluate Modify Actions Based on New Knowledge Clarify (Revisit) Goals and Purpose Plan Take Action /Experiment Assess / Gather Evidence Study / Reflect /Evaluate Modify Actions Based on New Knowledge

25. Critical Learning ~50% Need To Know Learning ~25% Still Need To Know Learning ~25% Bullseye Prioritizing Standards Hale, J. (2007). A guide to curriculum mapping: Planning, implementing, and sustaining the process . Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

29. Curriculum mapping is never “done”… “ Stop asking me if we are almost there, we’re Nomads for crying out loud!”

30. Questions?