Curriculum Mapping KnowledgeBase

This KnowledgeBase archive includes content and external links that were accurate and relevant as of September 30, 2019.

The Curriculum Mapping KnowledgeBase is an online resource supporting education professionals with the development and use of curriculum mapping as part of their instructional strategies. The KnowledgeBase is based on four elements derived from The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development authored by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Ann Johnson, and published by ASCD.

Task 3: Understand the Role of Technology

Guideline: Curriculum mapping brings together teachers and technology to produce maps in a useful and accessible form. As it evolves in a district and its schools, the use of a mapping system becomes second nature. Selecting a mapping system is a major decision for district and school leaders.

Resources

Checklists

Critical Points for Purchasing a System

This resource provides a checklist of questions that may be helpful when reviewing curriculum mapping systems. The questions have been extracted from Janet Hale's PowerPoint presentation "Mapping the Curriculum: Curriculum Mapping Intra-Organizations and Actions Plans," slides 38-48.

Tools

Curriculum Mapping Systems

This resource provides a list of curriculum mapping systems for information purposes. The Center has neither reviewed nor endorses the systems listed or the organizations offering them.

Presentations

Noble Public Schools

This link is to the Noble (Oklahoma) Public Schools curriculum and alignment website. It explains how it intends to sue curriculum maps as part of its instructional process.

Redbank Valley School District

The Redbank Valley (Pennsylvania) School District shares its curriculum maps through this website. It is offered as an alternative method of uploading curriculum maps to a website to share with staff members as well as parents and students.

The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and are intended for general reference purposes only. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education or the Center, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Some resources on this site require Adobe Acrobat Reader. This website archive includes content and external links that were accurate and relevant as of September 30, 2019.