Curriculum design at 21st Century Schools is focused on bringing your classrooms into alignment with life in the new millennium.  We design (and conduct professional development on how to design) what are commonly known as "units";  we prefer to use the term frameworks.  They are created with a built-in flexibility that allows them to be adapted to the needs and interests of your students, teachers and community.  Several sample frameworks have been added to this web site;  see Sample Units.  

Creating the 21st Century Curriculum - Integrated, Thematic, Interdisciplinary, . .  (items in burgundy are links to more info.)

• Project-Based Learning

• Learning Styles

• Multiple Intelligences

• Multiple Literacies

• Brain Research and Learning

• Themes

  • Themes Bank

  • Brainstorming your Theme

  • Social Issues as Themes

  • Community Projects as Themes

  • From Baking to Banking - Real Businesses as Curriculum

  • Superheroes as a Curricular Theme

   

• Sample Units

  • Money - Financial Literacy for First Grade!

  • Civil Rights - an Interdisciplinary, Multicultural Investigation of the Evolution of Civil Rights in the United States

  • Our Community and the Environment

  • Kingdom Animalia - a Study of the Biomes of Planet Earth

  • Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath (intro and outline)

  • Candy- How Sweet It Is, and Was! (intro and outline)

  • Global Johnny Appleseed Project (intro and outline)

   

• Unit Designing Tools

  • Unit Planning 101

  • Unit Planning Rubric

  • Unit Outcome Statement Form

  • Critical Attributes of a Unit

  • Sample Unit Outcome Statements

   

• Resources

  • Halloween

  • Harry Potter

  • Science Fiction

  • Candy

  • Christmas

  • Johnny Appleseed

  • more to come!

   

• Workshops Offered by 21st Century Schools

  • Workshops Offered

  • Workshop Schedule

  • Registration