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Building Innovative Curriculum How Schools Create Conditions for  REAL  Program Improvement Peter Gow   Emily Jones    Deb Merriam Director of College Counseling   Director   Academic Dean Beaver Country Day   Putney School   Francis W. Parker School     Charter Essential School ICG Boston 2009
Traditional Sources of Curriculum ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
The Question ,[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Past Reasons for Curricular Change ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Curriculum Since the 1980s ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Institutional Pre-conditions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Needed: An Over-arching Idea (along with the school mission, of course) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Steps to Change ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Needed: Resources ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Link curriculum vision to school mission ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Premise 1:  Institutional and personal tolerance of ambiguity is necessary for curriculum growth – and modeling this is good for students. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Premise 2:   Executive Function is a key component of learning, and can be learned. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
[object Object],The tradition of separating the study of humanity (the social sciences and humanities) from the study of the rest of the world (the natural sciences) is at least partly to blame for our inability to think intelligently about how we live on the planet. “ The greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and the humanities.”    E.O. Wilson October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
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Project based learning ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum
Questions for groups ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],October 27, 2009 ICG--Innovative Curriculum

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Building Innovative Curriculum

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