Oftentimes teams feel like there is a disconnect between their learning philosophies and documented curriculum. Articulating a clear definition of quality curriculum for your school's unique learners can be a key step in ensuring that your curriculum captures all the elements of high quality teaching and learning in which your team believes.
Articulate your curriculum definition and use it to guide your conversations for the day.
Ensure your unit expectations align with your overarching definition of quality curriculum, by reviewing current unit categories and creating definitions, examples, and expectations for each category.
Update your current template and draft a unit style guide.
Monday November 18, 2024 10:40am - 11:40am EST
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AI is transforming the landscape of teaching and learning, with educators and students at various stages of adoption. When implemented thoughtfully, AI can empower teachers to enhance and continuously refine their teaching. By leveraging AI to increase efficiency, educators can devote more time to what truly matters — facilitating learning. In this session, discover how AI can be used within ManageBac to streamline your workflow, from creating tasks to providing effective feedback.
Monday November 18, 2024 10:40am - 11:40am EST
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Walk through a collaborative unit review protocol to receive feedback on your own unit plan. Explore example unit review rubrics that you can tailor to you the needs of your own team.
Bring your own unit plan and walk away with ideas for strengthening your plan!
Monday November 18, 2024 10:40am - 11:40am EST
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Review your current list of assessment methods and types in Atlas. Ensure that the lists match the assessment language you use at your school and develop clear definitions and examples for each.
Build an assessment definition guide to take back to your team.
Monday November 18, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EST
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Documenting evidence of learning throughout the year is a big task for teachers and students. This session will explore how Portfolios in ManageBac can streamline documenting learning by allowing educators to share classroom activities using various forms of multimedia. Participants will learn how to highlight students' learning journeys by posting evidence of learning to their portfolios and engage with parents more effectively. The session will also cover how to filter and curate the portfolio timeline by resource types, tags, and favorites, and how to tag evidence with the IB Learner Profile for a more meaningful documentation of student learning.
Monday November 18, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EST
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Quality assessments are a foundational element of quality teaching and learning. In this session, we will briefly discuss the key components of building a quality assessment. You will then have time to review your own assessment and create a single-point rubric to support meaningful feedback for your learners.
Monday November 18, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EST
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Want to learn some tips on reviewing and cleaning up your Atlas site? Join us as we walk through the System Admin section of Atlas. Learn how to add, remove teachers, update your template and so much more!
Making the connection between unit plans and lessons brings the planned curriculum to life in the classroom. Explore how lessons can be created in Atlas and our tips for creating a lesson plan process.
Making the connection between unit plans and lessons brings the written curriculum to life in the classroom. Explore how lessons can be created in ManageBac and our tips for creating a lesson plan process.
Join us for an exciting session as we unveil a major update to ManageBac, including GenAI and enhancements to our mobile-first portfolio. Find out how we're making significant steps in our mission to streamline educational management and improve user experience for educators, students, and parents alike.
What's new and what's next? In this closing session, we will preview all new and upcoming features in Atlas and your team will have time to prioritize relevant ideas to apply to your own curriculum.
A curriculum process is more than just documenting the curriculum. Build on your curriculum definition from Day 1 and consider elements of the curriculum process that need support at your own school to support sustainability and buy-in.
Tuesday November 19, 2024 9:00am - 10:45am EST
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Ongoing curriculum reviews are the key to ensuring your curriculum is always a "living and breathing document". Work with your team to outline a school-wide curriculum review cycle that encompasses both course level and ongoing unit level reviews.
Walkaway with a drafted review processes that connects to your team's overall curricular goals.
Tuesday November 19, 2024 10:55am - 12:15pm EST
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Without clear goals and action items, your curriculum process is just an idea. In this session, participants will identify a curricular goal for the school year and unpack it into Key Steps and Action Items.
Tuesday November 19, 2024 10:55am - 12:15pm EST
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Curriculum review is a necessary for any successful curriculum process. Let us show you how Atlas reports can support accreditation, data analysis, vertical alignment, and the overall strengthening of your curriculum. Come prepared to have hands-on practice running reports in Atlas.
Curriculum analysis allows for a review of a curriculum’s suitability, relevance and alignment with relevant standards. Learn how Curriculum Analytics can support accreditation, data analysis, vertical alignment, and the overall strengthening of your curriculum.
