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Curriculum Planning Begins with Self-Reflection

Dr. Kimberly Parker discusses the internal work that teachers need to do during the curriculum development process in order to engage and support students in their learning.

Last Updated: August 16, 2022

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English — US

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English & Language Arts

Culture & Identity

Facing History and Ourselves, “Curriculum Planning Begins with Self-Reflection,” video, last updated April 12, 2022.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson asks students to reflect on how education has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and to propose changes they would like to see in schools when the pandemic ends.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson asks students to start the school year by designing their ideal learning space.

Students move around the classroom in conversation with each other. One student looks directly into the camera with a smile on their face.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson invites students to analyze Amanda Gorman’s poem “New Day’s Lyric” and create a class poem about hope and collective action during challenging times.

Amanda Gorman at the 2021 InStyle Awards At The Getty Center

Lesson

Through quote and poetry analysis, students will consider the ways in which our desire to fit in can impact our identities and the choices we make.

A student writes on a piece of paper in a classroom.

Lesson

Students will define key concepts and discuss the impact that labels, assumptions, and stereotypes have on their identity development.

Lesson

Students will engage in perspective-taking activities to consider what it means to belong and how experiences and interactions with others can shape our identities.

Two students working together and looking at classwork

Lesson

Students will watch a short animated film and create illustrated “pearls of wisdom” to consider why it is important to develop relationships that help us feel seen, valued, and secure.

Two female students, one with a hijab, sit in classroom.

Lesson

Students will read and analyze a poem that focuses on what it means to practice celebrating identity, both by loving who you are and by imagining who you can be.

Engaged uniformed male student engages in classroom discussion.

Assessment

Create a culminating experience for your students that helps them draw new connections between the concepts and ideas presented in this text set, themselves, and the world today.

Male student works on in-class assignment.

Text Set

Designed for students in grades 6-7, this text set includes lesson plans and multi-genre texts for a two-week unit exploring the essential question “How do we become who we want to be in the world?”

Female students engage in classroom discussion.

Activity

Students critically analyze the choices, risks, and rewards that are involved when they are called upon to be upstanders.

Activity

Students engage in meaningful discussions with their peers about a text while using text-based evidence to support their thinking and making real-life connections to what they're reading.

Two students sitting in a classroom with one student talking and gesturing

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Reimagining School after COVID

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