Successful Curriculum Alignment Overview Day
Having a concise continuum for curriculum is an ultimate goal for mapping the taught curriculum. This workshop is intended to act as an overview to the full Curriculum Alignment Series. We will introduce practices for ensuring integration of curriculum and how department or discipline specific heads and chairs can propel their articulation.

Uncovering Multi-Disciplinary Skills
There are underlying commonalities within the taught curriculum for all departments and disciplines. Step back to review what skills are being taught in all departments and examine its impact on the connected curriculum. Your discoveries will:

• Explore how student centric skills like critical thinking and reading, can be reinforced and covered in all disciplines.
• Examine different strategies for integrating skills.
• Scaffold non-discipline specific skills into a continuum.

Discipline Analysis for Alignment
A key component throughout Rubicon's Methodology is curricular review and alignment. Come prepared to address the top five issues facing your department and discover new strategies and ideas from other Atlas peers.

• Conduct a thorough analysis of your discipline.
• Create a series of reports and protocols to facilitate conversation and review
• Explore innovative teaching practices within your discipline and how to embed them into the taught curriculum.

Build Tools and Resources*
Continue to expand 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 can select from one of the following activities:

• Create a podcast to:
  • Explore new strategies to document multi-disciplinary skills.
  • Engage your discipline in using Atlas to explore key questions. 

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• Join a facilitated conversation in the morning focused on:
  • How to answer tough curricular questions
  • Reviewing the curriculum in a large district or campus

Creating a Plan
Reflect on all the components covered in this series to develop a concise Game Plan to propel vertical alignment for your discipline.

• Create next steps for alignment within your discipline.
• Reflect on sharing and logging the success of your process.
• Share your podcast and plan with group reflection.
• 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.