Teacher's Curriculum Institute

Download: TCI Curriculum and Unit Development Guide It’s August and you are facing an entire year of lesson planning for your social studies course.  Daunting?  Let me share with you three key curricular planning steps for success.  One:  It’s essential that you correlate your content to your standards.  You can then plan a realistic course [...]

We ran across a video on the web. It’s intriguing to see what kids can do with a computer, a problem, and collaboration.  It’s fascinating to see what the internet has done for instruction and where it can go in less developed part of the globe (including America!). Also, note the inclusion of the 21st Century skills of analysis, synthesis, [...]

Suzy Allione, today’s contributor, is a consultant for TCI and has hellped the Bay Area Aspire schools implement TCI. Public schools are certainly in the media spotlight recently with a cover story in Time magazine, the release of the film Waiting for “Superman,” and an Oprah episode devoted to outstanding charter schools. We were tickled [...]