Using Dual Purpose Mapping to Upgrade Your Curriculum

Saratoga New York

Marie Alcock Ph.D.

USING OUR DATA

The four skills of Curriculum Mapping

• The ability to articulate what mapping is and why we are doing it.

• The ability to generate high quality maps in the format agreed upon.

• The ability to use the software to input data and analyze the data.

• The ability to participate in conversations using the review process.

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How do we use our data to impact student achievement?

Getting to data informed discussions about our curriculums

What are these conversations really like?

First some basic definitionsDiary Map• Documents one

classroom’s curriculum.

• Curriculum DATA

Essential Map• A product that

represents a plan or the intended curriculum as agreed upon by a group of educators.

Data

Student Achievement Data

Student Data

Perception Data

Curriculum Data

How do we USE these to inform instruction?

Targeted Mapping Getting Results Quickly

Dual Purpose MappingBaseline Mapping

(Long term Goal)

• Building of Essential Maps– Based on a framework– VERY broad – not

detailed entries– Align to standards

Targeted Mapping(Short Term Goal)

Identify Spirals / RigorBalance assessmentsTarget state standardsRevise curriculum in

targeted areasResults are seen as

revision statements in essential maps

How Targeted Mapping Works

Use Review Process

Why are you mapping?

Implemented Curriculum

Pick the Conversation

Make the Decisions

Quality Maps?Collect the Curriculum data

Steps to plan conversation• Use varied sources of data to identify target• Brainstorm common vocabulary • Identify tag for maps• Identify reports from software to be used• Generate sample map entries• Begin data collection• Generate reports, collect assessment data,

student work • Host conversation using review process

Possible Groups

• Grade-level teams• Departments• Feeder Patterns• Vertical • Horizontal • Specific target teams• Whole/part faculty

study groups • Interdisciplinary

Teams

Revision Statements

All revisions or upgrades are documented in the essential maps

Staying Cutting Edge With Technology

Upgrades

Possible Support

• www.asiasociety.com• www.curriculum21.com• www.10list.org• www.classroom20.com• www.teachertube.com• www.ascd.com• www.21stcenturyskills.org• http://www.nj.gov/education/aps/njscp/

Bird by Bird by Ann Lamottan analogy to curriculum design

…I also remember a story that I know I’ve told elsewhere but that over and over helps me to get a grip: thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Contact Information

Learning Systems Associates

Marie Alcock Ph.D.

973 479-7724

malcock33@gmail.com

Dual Purpose MappingBaseline Mapping

(Long term Goal)

• Building of Essential Maps– Based on a framework– VERY broad – not

detailed entries– Align to standards

Targeted Mapping(Short Term Goal)

Identify Spirals / RigorBalance assessmentsTarget state standardsRevise curriculum in

targeted areasResults are seen as

revision statements in essential maps

Targeted Search

Search Criteria = measure*Search all schoolsAny categoryAny gradeAny map

Get Graph

Steps to plan conversation• Use varied sources of data to identify target

and standard• Brainstorm common vocabulary • Identify tag for maps and reports to run• Generate sample map entries• Begin data collection• Generate reports, collect assessment data,

student work (2 weeks prior to conversation)• Host conversation using review process

Learning Systems Associates