Streamlining the Curriculum 1: Make the Case

Curriculum design has been cumbersome and overwhelming. In your struggle to cover all the required content, you notice that much of it does not resonate with your students. Your overloaded curriculum has gone off-track for you and your students, but there is a better way!In their book, Streamlining the Curriculum, Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Allison Zmuda take a hard look at our overburdened, dated curricular practices and offer a better way—one built on the power of narrative with a storyboard approach that casts students as the heroes of the learning journey. We invite you to participate in a series of micro-courses to unlock three essential skills and energize the launch of your streamlining and storyboarding journey.Why streamline and storyboard? In this micro-course, unlock the skill of making a compelling case by engaging with common curricular problems, examining storyboard examples, and establishing reasons for streamlining and storyboarding in your classroom/school. With this skill, you’ll be energized to make thoughtful decisions about what your curriculum contains.

FORMAT: Self-Directed

DURATION: 1 Hour

AUTHOR(S): Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Allison Zmuda