1. Professional In-Service Curriculum Alignment and Team Planning March 25 th and 26 th

2. Alignment and Documentation VisionMissionESLR StandardsExpectations Units and ThreadsLessons, Activities, etc.Assessments Policy Curriculum Overviews Details in Atlas Syllabi

3. Foci of these two days Atlas by Rubicon Course Alignment and Development

4. Goals Learn to use Atlas All faculty can find the standards and expectations for any ESLR for any Curricular Area for any Grade- Level All faculty is able to input units and threads into Atlas Some faculty explore additional features of Atlas

5. Atlas Training Modules Module 1: Training on finding standards and expectations presented by members of your Atlas Core Team Module 2: Training on how to input unit information into Atlas presented by members of your Atlas Core Team Module 3: Exploration and Training related to creating links to lesson plans, websites, documents and etc. as well as other Atlas supported features

6. Schedule for Atlas Trainers and Tammy TammyMrs. Hui MenMs. Meng Zhou Friday 8-3:30HZ8-3:30HQ8-12:15PD US 3:30-5:00Travel 12:15-12:30Travel 12:30-3:30PD LS 3:30 - 4:30Travel Saturday 8 - 10:00PD LS8-10:00HQ7:00-8:30Travel 10:00-10:15Travel10-11:00Travel8:30 - 3:30HZ 10:30-12:00PD US12:30-1:30PD LS3:30 - 5:00Travel 12:00-1:00Travel1:30-1:45Travel 1:00-3:30HQ2:30-3:30PD US 3:30 - 4:30Travel

7. Goals Course Alignment and Development All grade-level expectations are sorted into courses, thus becoming course expectations tailored to the programs on your campus All course expectations are sorted into units and threads For each course, units and threads are distributed on the Course Calendar in Atlas At least the first unit for the 2011-2012 school year is loaded on Atlas including at least one common assessment and one common lesson/activity/etc. A syllabus for each course is completed and sent to Tammy

8. Sorting Cards  Learning Opportunities …strategies and techniques for analyzing and evaluating support structures and the necessity of these structures 6Transdisciplinary Different color for each Curricular Area Grade Level as per System Remember Campus +/- one Grade Level as per System Remember Campus +/- one Different symbol for each ESLR type Each card is one expectation

9. Creating Units DecideLoadEvolve

10. What What expectations are you addressing?  strategies and techniques  concepts, skills and processes What will be the context? What else do you want the students to know and be able to do? WHY Why is learning “the what” essential and or significant? How  How are you going to structure the learning opportunity?  How will students be engaged?  How will students demonstrate their learning?  How will you assess what the students demonstrate?  How will you communicate feedback? When When, between the first day of school and the last, is this essential/significant opportunity receiving specific direct attention and intentional assessment?

11. Advice: STAND on PRESENT GROUND Load decisions as they are made. Evolution is expected. Not all choices have to be made at once. Not all choices have to be made in order to load a unit. Create frames to build upon.

12. Questions and Corrections Course and teacher assignments Questions: Principal Corrections: Secretary Standards and expectations Questions regarding course alignment: Principal Questions regarding intent: Tammy Corrections: Tammy Atlas How-To’s and Set-up Atlas how-to questions: Core Team or Atlas Trainer What do you expect here questions: Principal Why is it set-up like this questions: Tammy

13. To the Faculty Every day each of you contribute to the SCIS-HIS curriculum through the opportunities you provide, the assessments that you make, and the feedback that you share. Sometimes in our busy world words of appreciation fall through the cracks of time and remain left unsaid. Not today. Today we are able to build upon the collective talents, energy, and time invested by SCIS-HIS faculties, past and present. To you all we say THANK YOU.