Comprehensive Education
Technology
Integration
Content
Specific
Competencies
Literacy
7 Pillars
QPP
Mathematics
Related Arts
Comprehension
Phonics
Fluency
Phonemic
Awareness
Vocabulary
Numbers and
Operations
Problem
Solving and
Reasoning
Data,
Statistics, and
Probability
Geometry
Functions and
Algebra
Art
Library
Music
Physical
Education
As a community of learners we believe that it is
our mission to support educational experiences
that inspire and awaken the individual genius
in students who can demonstrate the following
characteristics:
*Lifelong Learners
*Effective Communicators
*Culturally Appreciative Individuals
*Critical Thinkers and Problem Solvers
*Involved Citizens
*Social Entrepeneurs
*Resposible Children
Because it involves the richness of human
connection the breadth of human diversity,
the complexity of human conflict, and the
inspiration of human hope, social
responsibility is truly heartfelt
responsiveness to the world. It’s not a tool
we give to students or a skill we help them
develop, it is a gift we offer them of their
human birthright. ~Sheldon Berman
Student Engagement
21st Century Skills
Student Ownership
More and more studies show that technology
integration in the curriculum improves
students' learning processes and outcomes.
Research shows technology integration
deepens and enhances the learning process. In
particular, it supports four key components of
learning: active engagement, participation in
groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and
connection to real-world experts.
•What does it mean to be healthy?
Health
Science
Social
Studies
•How do the interdependence of life systems sustain or destroy...
•the environment?
•each other?
•themselves?
•How have past cultures/societies shaped present day?
 Because competencies ask why, the so what, the
now what, not simply the what.
 Because competency is a student’s ability to
transfer his/her learning in and/or across content
areas.
 Because to be competent a student must apply their
knowledge, skills, and beliefs to novel situations.
“If I had asked my customers what they
wanted they would have told me a faster
horse.”-Henry Ford
Question, Problem, and
Project Based Learning
When curriculum, instruction, and assessment
shift out of the covers of a textbook and into the
real-world context of projects, everything changes.
Instead of superficially “covering the curriculum”
as chapters in a textbook, students and teachers
need to uncover the more complex issues revealed
through the structured inquiry of projects.
`Milton Chen
Focus on
significant
content
Organize
task
around
driving
question
21st
Century
Skills
Establish
a need to
Know
Engage
students
in indepth
analysis
Voice and
choice
Revision
and
reflection
Include a
public
audience
Focus on significant
content:
st
Develop 21
skills:
century
Engage students in indepth inquiry:
Organize tasks around
a driving question:
Establish a need to
know:
Encourage voice and
choice:
Incorporate revision
and reflection:
Include a public
audience:
 Allows for flexibility: Through curriculum integration, teachers can
plan for the development of key skills and understandings that
transcend individual strands and subjects.
 Builds on prior knowledge and experiences: Choosing meaningful
connections among subject areas helps students build on their diverse
prior knowledge and experiences, supports their holistic view of the
world, and ensures more meaningful learning.
 Unifies the students’ learning: Curriculum integration enables
students to develop a unified view of the curriculum to broaden the
context of their learning beyond single subject areas.
 Reflects the real world: When curriculum is organized in a holistic
way, it better reflects the real world and the way children learn at home
and in the community.
 Matches the way students think: Brain research supports the theory
that younger students take in many things and process and organize
them at one time. Teaching ideas holistically, rather than in fragmented
pieces, better reflects how young students’ brains process information.