Presented by Debbie Panchisin and Lara Crowley

 Max Thompson’s group, Learning Focus, presented to School Chiefs an initiative called the Power Curriculum  School chiefs entered into a partnership to prioritize the DE standards and GLEs Background

 The Power Curriculum Tool provides schools and districts with a "complete package" of features that allow you to transform state standards into advance organizers (complete with Unit Essential Questions, Key Concepts, Lesson Essential Questions, and Key Vocabulary) units, and lessons.

 Learning Focused provided 2 day training for math, science and social studies teachers and a 3 day training for ELA teachers  A team of several teachers- 4-5 per grade level met in content area groups to prioritize the current curriculum

 Future plans- the grade level teams will be reassembled during the summer months to finalize the curriculum  It will then be reviewed one more time by School Chiefs and the Learning Focused team  Once it is approved, it will be loaded onto the Learning Focused Strategies website and all teachers in the state will have access to the curriculum  Teachers will be able to use the information to develop units of study and lessons What is next?