The Curriculum Crafter® Tool is a dynamic web-based curriculum management and design tool that offers embedded, researched-based curriculum which will align to your state standards. The curriculum can be customized to your needs and support your current initiatives.
District Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Principals and Teachers, and Dept. of Education Administrators at Teaching Colleges & Universities.
Standards: broad descriptions of the knowledge and skills students should acquire in the unit of study. Analysis of Standard: The outline of the unit of study that includes all information listed below. Differentiated Resources for some standards.
Foundations: prerequisite vocabulary, new vocabulary, essential questions, and enduring understanding.
Concepts & Information: consistent background information for the standard allowing consistent vocabulary between schools and within the district.
Sequence of Instruction: The lessons are listed, in sequential order, as well as the content expectations and corresponding instructional strategies. Electronic Resources: The resources for the entire standard are available electronically within the standard.
Course Standards Comparison Report: This report compares several grade levels of curriculum standards, by content area, and displayed by strand.(Comparing Curriculum)
Content Expectation & Priority Content Expectation Comparison Report: This report compares several grade levels of content expectations, by content area, and strand. (Comparing Content Expectations)
Curriculum Summary Filtered Report: This report allows you to select and sort by content area, course and strand. This report is great for School Improvement purposes.
Content Expectations/Keyword Search: This area allows you to type in a content expectation (R.CM.03.01) or a key word (e.g. ‘statehood’) to search/find everywhere this concept is taught.
Standards Report: This report will show the content standards for the course, aligned by strand. As with many of the reports, the standards are hyperlinked directly to the full analysis of standard.
Vocabulary Report: This report will pull all new vocabulary into one master list from each of the standards within the particular content area and course.
Curriculum Map Report: This report displays the yearly map of the standards for the specific content area course. **The standard maps must be done prior to anything being populated in this report.
Content Expectation Report: This report will display in one master list all the content expectations for the content area course selected.
Message board, technology support, supports multiple users, KC4 curriculum built in (optional), customizable, web-based, immediate updates, easy to use, inservice training, paces and maps, searchable
Yes, curriculum can be added directly into the web-based application or it can be attached, uploaded, or linked to the district file located on our server. We recommend that some instructional items such as videos, photos, music, etc. be created as links due to the fact that these types of files take up a great deal of storage space on the actual web-based server.
Since Curriculum Crafter® is web based, any internet enabled computer will do. In order to view the video training guides you will need Flash 9.0 installed on your computers.
We believe that if a technological tool is well designed and intuitive for the user, then costly training and professional development can be dramatically reduced and the likelihood of adoption and success can be significantly increased. We are proud to report that our teacher users are prepared to use Curriculum Crafter® competently after only two hours of training. This allows them to experience the benefits quickly, with confidence and consistency. Research shows that if teachers are consistent in their implementation of a particular course, the likelihood of student achievement increases. We recommend the use of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), grade level/department meetings, and staff meetings throughout implementation to insure appropriate understanding and commitment to the use of Curriculum Crafter®.