"More importantly, what it's done is provide us an opportunity to really become real, sound players, not only just in creating curriculum but also in starting to have meaningful programs with kids," Woods said.
The Builder guides the curriculum designer or teacher in creating lessons, whereas the Teacher view shows performance of particular students on particular lessons, and the Student view guides the students in completing tasks and viewing feedback on their performance.
On balance, veteran principals, experts say, tend to have acquired more skill in creating curriculums that will lead to higher scores on standardized tests.
"A Year With Children 2008: Selected Works From Learning Through Art," which ends on June 13, highlights projects created by students in the second through the sixth grades who participated in the Guggenheim's Learning Through Art program, which sends professional teaching artists into public schools each year to guide children in creating curriculum-related artworks.
Some teachers, he said, tape the programs for classroom dissection, one of the many guerrilla tactics in creating a curriculum in the absence of a textbook, other than Richard Saferstein's "Criminalistics" (Prentice Hall), which was meant for use in college.
Her goal is to create an immersive teaching and reporting model for university journalism programs to partner with prisons in creating journalism curriculum for inmates.
Project: To research prison education programs, with the goal of creating an immersive teaching and reporting model for university journalism programs to partner with prisons in creating journalism curriculum for inmates.
The partnership allows the city to draw from the different disciplines of the university in creating the curriculum, from engineering and business to design, and then tailor the material to the municipal context.
Hrabowski studied various minority programs in creating his curriculum, including similar programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Uri Treisman's methods, which have improved calculus scores for African Americans at UC-Berkeley.
The report faulted Mr. van den Bossche for his roles both in overseeing the planning of the building and in creating the educational curriculum.
