Establish a Foundation for Curriculum Design
This session provides a general overview and introduction to Atlas and best practices in leading curriculum mapping process. Engage in activities that will develop and broaden your understanding of being a leader for curriculum work in progress at your school or district.

• Explore Rubicon's Methodology for the Curriculum Mapping Process, which has been based on the lessons learned from many of our clients as to what it takes to lead a successful process.
• Set expectations for the process by creating curricular goals that will become the foundation to your curriculum initiatives.
• Learn to use Atlas as a tool to support and lead your process.

Design an Effective Review Process
A key component throughout Rubicon's Methodology is curricular review. Examine components of successful curricular review processes and how they might be employed at your school or district to sustain ongoing curricular enhancement. Participants will be encouraged to bring representative examples of their curriculum to use in focused review conversations.

• Model and practice the three main types of review:
  • Quality
  • Peer
  • Small Group
• Create protocols that will provide your colleagues with the facilitation tools necessary to conduct curricular review based on key goals identified.
• Explore ways to engage faculty in designing and sustaining the curriculum mapping process.

Build Tools and Resources*
Continue to expand the tools and resources you need by creating an interactive podcast for your team or brainstorming with colleagues from around the world on key items.

Participants will select one focused activity from one of the following:

• Create a customized podcast:
  • Get front and center with every member of your team to explain the purpose of mapping at your school or district.
  • Walk through the structure and use a review protocols created in the workshop to assist in conducting your review process.
    
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• Join a facilitated conversation focused on:
  • Successful strategies for leading a review process
  • Key components to reviewing the curriculum

Refine and Reflect
Prerequisite: Attend Build Tools and Resources
Take time to present and gain feedback on tools and resources developed in previous sessions in this half day session.

• Practice protocols to giving and receiving constructive feedback on work.
• Seize the opportunity to return with completed products necessary to support your process.
• Celebrate the successes achieved.
• Spend individual time with an Atlas consultant to answer any critical questions.
   

* As a prerequisite for the Build Tools and Resources workshop, participants must have attended a prior AEC workshop session, during either the same or a different visit.  Additionally, these workshops begin at 8:00 am.