Beyond Preparing Your School for the Journey to Independent Advanced Curriculum

BEYOND: Preparing Your School for the Journey to Independent Advanced Curriculum

In coordination with our friends at the Independent Curriculum Group
Offered: April 1 - April 19, 2019

Is your school struggling with the best way to offer high level advanced courses that:

Excite and challenge all kinds of able and ambitious students?
Fit with the spirit, culture, mission, values, and strategic priorities of your school?
Positively differentiate your students in the college applicant pool?
Positively differentiate your school in the marketplace and community of schools?

Beyond: Preparing Your School for the Journey to Independent Advanced Curriculum, offered by One Schoolhouse and the ICG, provides schools with a toolbox for developing and promoting indigenous advanced learning experiences built around their own missions and values and designed for their own student bodies. Drawing on learnings from schools already committed to “independent advanced curriculum,” the course will address the academic and pedagogical aspects of creating and sustaining advanced coursework and assessments in all disciplines as well as effective strategies for communicating about such coursework to key external audiences, including college admission offices and prospective community members

Course Format
During this program, participants will spend approximately four hours on coursework for each unit and can set their own pace each week. Coursework and assignments for each unit open on Monday morning, and should be completed by the following Sunday evening. Participants will connect and collaborate with each other through several forms of interactive media, including short videos, and discussion boards. Classes are conducted asynchronously.

Course Unit Plan

Unit 1 - Ready: Assessing whether your school is ready to create its own advanced academic courses?
Unit 2 - Set: Creating an Academic Plan
Unit 3 - Go: Communicating Curriculum Changes Effectively