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Letting the Essential Questions Live
In my role at the American Embassy School in New Delhi, I support teachers planning with the Understanding by Design model. A curriculum planning model I love and feel helps to clarify what is really...
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Who is Really in the Way
“The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that...
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UbD and Music and Flexibility
I had an incredible experience last week working with a teacher on UbD units. Our band teacher was struggling with her UbD units because planning in units did not seem to “fit” her process and how you...
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Curriculum and Technology: Moving Forward Together
The American Embassy School of New Delhi (where I work), has been very committed to moving our school forward with technology integration, but mindful to not lose site of the curricular goals and be...
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Collaborators Needed
It is lonely in here. And by in here I mean the Curriculum Office. I have one peer at the school in terms of K-12 curriculum work and next year I will lose her, so it will actually get lonelier. I...
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The Importance of Vision
When I was newer to teaching…let’s not say younger, I was never in schools that worked from a mission/vision driven position, so when I came to a school that is grounded in it vision and mission I...
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No photo, no obsessive re-reading of my post to make sure it is grammatically correct…why? Because frankly I am having the best professional year ever, so busy, so engaged, learning so much…that I...
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Reflecting on ADE
As part of the ADE Class of 2013 and more importantly to me, as part of the first group from India…I am proud to say that I am an official ADE. I was not sure what that really meant, however being in...
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