What is the Curriculum/Program

Development Process?
What leadership will you offer?

How does it work in your organization?

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Glatthorn’s School Board
Citizens’
Model Curriculum
Advisory
Superintendent Council
Curriculum
Planning
Council

Principals
Task Forces
School
Curriculum
Council
Curriculum Instructional
Writers Planning
Teams
Organizational components (1-15) needed to
accomplish effective curriculum work :
1. District org structure for central curriculum
planning
2. District org structure for developing curriculum
3. District org structure for citizen input
4. District long-term plan for developing
curriculum
5. District requires groups developing curriculum
to submit specific plans for accomplishing this
task (Are plans monitored?)
6. Written Board policies delineating its role in
curriculum development
7. District written curriculum goals
8. District written vision of excellence for Do you have
curriculum these
components?
9. Written, systematic district process for developing and
evaluating curriculum
10. Systematic district process for aligning instruction with
written curriculum, texts and assessments
11. Systematic district process for monitoring the
curriculum
12. Systematic district process for implementing the
curriculum
13. Each school has its own goals, vision and written
program of studies
14. Classroom teachers develop yearly plans, courses of
study and integrated units
15. District audit assesses the quality of the delivered
curriculum
 Who could/should/might
be involved in the curriculum
planning process?
• Citizens’ Curriculum Advisory Council
• Curriculum Planning Council What
• Curriculum Task Forces about
me?
• Curriculum Writers
• School Curriculum Council
• Instructional Planning Teams
 Who’s Involved? What do they do?
Citizens’ Curriculum Advisory Council
• Superintendent and assistant superintendent for
curriculum AND members appointed by the Board with
input from school administrators
• Council acts in an advisory capacity to School Board
• Advise Board on curriculum policy
• Foster communication by meeting with individuals and
community groups concerned about the curriculum
• Hold hearings on controversial curriculum issues,
communicate recommendations to Board
• Confer with Curriculum Planning Council and individual
Task Forces to share community beliefs and opinions
about curriculum issues
 Who’s Involved? What do they do?
Curriculum Planning Council
• Central Office staff, school administrators, professional
support staff, teachers (selection based on knowledge of
district, ability to plan, knowledge of current curriculum
practices, credibility with colleagues
1. Organize Planning Council, set schedule, choose
leadership, determine how decisions will be made
2. Provide leadership in identifying educational goals and
developing a vision of curriculum excellence
3. Explicate the district’s curriculum guide development
process
4. Develop and submit budget recommendations for
curriculum work
5. Arrange for necessary leadership training and staff
development
6. Identify a standard format for the curriculum guides
7. Identify and implement curriculum evaluation processes
8. Develop processes and materials to ensure the
curriculum is effectively implemented
9. Conduct a needs assessment to identify priorities for
developing curriculum guides and related materials
10. Appoint and provide training for Task Forces that will
develop the actual curriculum guides
11. Monitor the work of Task Forces

Curriculum Planning Council

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 Who’s Involved? What do they do?
Curriculum Task Forces
• One principal from each level of schooling, a central
office supervisor, several teachers
Select people based on:
– Knowledge of the subject area for which they are
responsible
– Ability to produce work on schedule
– Knowledge of the district’s curriculum
development processes
– Influence with classroom teachers
They develop the new curriculum
(but not necessarily all alone)
 Who’s Involved? What do they do?
Curriculum Writers
• They assist the Curriculum Task Force with writing
the curriculum
Select members based on
– Knowledge of the subject
– Ability to write clearly and effectively
 Who’s Involved? What do they do?
School Curriculum Council

• School administrators and teacher leaders

• Makes the major decision concerning school-based
curriculum development
• Provide leadership in program restructuring and
development tasks
• Develop guidelines for Instructional Planning Teams
 Who’s Involved? What do they do?
Instructional Planning Teams
• Teachers in schools who work together to implement the
curriculum
• Their tasks include development of:
• Yearly plans based on the curriculum guide
• Units of study derived from the guide and yearly plans
• Materials to individualize the curriculum
• Materials to be used in the classroom
What about the student voice?
 Curriculum Development Cycle
• Planning -- appoint Task Forces, develop knowledge
base, orient teachers, develop Hallmarks of Excellence,
collect data and input from teachers
• Production --manufacture materials including scope and
sequence charts, developing guides, creating materials
to support guides
• Piloting -- partial implementation
• Implementation -- full implementation
Leading the Curriculum/Program
Development Process

What type of
leader are you?
What are your beliefs in people?
McGregor’s Theory X - Theory Y

Are people generally capable?

Can they be trusted to do a good job?
Will they want to do a good job?
Are they capable of doing a good job?
How much supervision and oversight do people require?
 How do you run meetings?
(concern for people or task)
Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid

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 Principles of Collaboration
David Straus
How to Make Collaboration Work

• Stakeholder involvement
• Consensus building
• Process design
• Facilitation
• Group memory
 Stakeholders
• What are they?
• Why are they important?
• How do you identify them?
• How do you involve them?
• What should be their
roles/responsibilities?
• What are the consequences for
non-involvement?
 Stakeholders
Who should you involve?

• Those with formal power to make a

decision
• Those with power to block a
decision
• Those affected by the decision
• Those with relevant information or
expertise
 How do you build consensus?
Phase by phase!!
All must be in the same phase, at the same time, if the
process is to work

1. Perception Problem
2. Definition space
3. Analysis
4. Generation of Alternatives
Solution
5. Evaluation
6. Decision Making space
 Attend to Process Design
Pathways to Action Model

Vision
space
Process Solution Implementation
Design space space
space
Agenda Planning
Problem
space You can only be in only
one space at a time
Figure out your desired
outcomes/what you want
to achieve in the meeting
 Facilitation:
Meeting Roles & Responsibilities
• Facilitator Interaction Method --
• Recorder Shared Responsibility
• Manager/chairperson Everyone in the meeting
• participant shares responsibility for
making sure that
everyone stays in role,
thereby ensuring
individuals don’t overstep
their function and
manipulate the group.
 Group Memory
• We can only remember so much (7-10 items, give or
take a couple). By using a paper to record group
memory, we can see what we have said and then
move on.
What is the Curriculum/Program
Development Process?
What leadership will you offer?

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