Curriculum Coaching
It all begins with your core curriculum. One-on-one and team coaching includes a weekly or bi-weekly cadence of coaching sessions in which I work with faculty and/or curriculum leaders on the courses, units and learning experiences being ‘sustainablized’. As a result of assessments that produce learning, we will periodically analyze student work as evidence of your progress aligning and integrating Education for Sustainability into the core curriculum.
We provide curriculum coaching services both online and in-person.
When faculty and curriculum developers are ready, we:
Coach in a series of one-on-one and/or department/grade level sessions with teachers to review and innovate unit designs and lessons, assessments and performance criteria, address mapping and alignment questions and issues, discuss differentiation strategies and content revisions, provide feedback, and discuss and make progress toward curricular and instructional goals.
Design a school, an EfS Curriculum Framework, a full course of study, a scope and sequence, performance assessments, performance criteria and/or Professional Development Protocols embedded with EfS attributes.
Review and assess exemplary EfS units, assessments and performance criteria for the attributes of EfS and Quality Curriculum. Discuss innovations.
Analyze student work for evidence of EfS using EfS Performance Criteria and discuss next steps.
Conduct a formal strengths assessment and review gaps of the operating curriculum for evidence of EfS attributes. Faculty and administrators analyze results and make decisions about next steps with the goal of fully integrating vertically and laterally the EfS Standards and Performance Indicators into the curriculum scope and sequence in the appropriate disciplines and grade levels.
Questions we'll answer together:
Is EfS aligned to the Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards? Is EfS aligned to our Content Standards?
What other popular frameworks align to the Cloud Institute’s EfS Standards and Indicators?
What does UBD/Backwards Design have to do with Educating for Sustainability?