Teach Meaningful

Teach Meaningful is a practical guide to designing curriculum that meetsstandards, serves personal and institutional values, and intentionally leads tosuccessful student learning. Identifying which understandings, knowledge, andskills are "most important" for students to learn is always a question of values, sogetting clear on values gives teachers a starting place to design cohesive units,courses, and programs. Written by a teacher for teachers, Teach Meaningfulincludes: stories of failures and successes in designing curriculum from acrosssubjects and grade levels metaphors from everyday life to help teachers understand curriculumdesign as a process rooted in values and culminating in meaningfullearning examples of essential questions, assessment guidelines, lesson calendars,unit plans, and curriculum maps exercises and templates teachers can use to create and assess curriculum protocols designed to encourage inclusive participation and criticalreflection when colleagues look at curriculum together