Curriculum and Planning

questioning • exploring • communicating • dialoguing • exploring • researching • close reading • writing • naming • unlearning • dissecting • challenging • envisioning • dreaming • advocating • change making

Learning should transform both student and teacher.

Aside from providing a space to master skills and dive deeply into rich inquiry, the classroom lets us learn about ourselves and the people around us. When we engage in deep learning, we cannot separate ourselves from the urgent calls of inequity, injustice, and inaction. Designing a sequence of learning begins with well-constructed units that speak to and address the urgent demands of our students’ realities. Along these highly manicured pathways, we equip them to respond passionately using their voice. We inevitably run into small, spontaneous moments that enlighten us to the beauty, interconnectedness, joy, and wonder of life. In these moments, both teachers and students are transformed, or as Juan Felipe Herrera may say - in these moments, we all are changing. When planning a unit of study or a lesson, I ask myself these 12 questions from Gholdy Muhammad.

Scope and Sequence

Daily Instruction