The Captains Log

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The Captains Log
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The Love Boat sets sail in the warm, tranquil
Caribbean Seas

• Time
• Planning by team
• Teaching mapping to staff
• Completing maps
• Collaborating on maps
• Revising core maps
• Entering data into TechPaths

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Making sure everyone is onboard

• Coordination
• Departments
• Grade levels
• Sister high schools
• Feeder school
• District administrators
• Curriculum Supervisors

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Navigating the Whitewater

• No map to follow
• Lack of technology
• Do not rush stages(every school/staff is unique)
• Keep your eyes on the final port of call

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Our Three-hour tour is lasting for years as well

• Scurrying to complete map before the end of the
  school year
• Avoiding your complaining island inhabitants
• Motivating others to join the island festivities
• Designating hut assignments
• Overlooking the natives on the other side of the
  island

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Teacher Subject School Year
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Guidance Template Curriculum map
for Counselor                                   
                                             
School Year
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Intervention Specialist Template Curriculum map
for Intervention Specialist                     
                                               
School Year
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Administration Template Curriculum map
for     Administrator                          
                                              
School Year
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Life Skills Template Curriculum map for 
Teacher                                         
                               
School Year
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Island Harmony

• Provide time and personal space
• Show sensitivity to needs of staff
• Encourage continually
• Join rescue watch

Dont know what this really looks like - Not
there yet!
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10. Our first day of curriculum mapping, the
district implements new grading and
attendance programs with all 950 teachers
to be in-serviced in a one hour session
at the same time and yes, the computers
crash. Now it is time to introduce
mapping!
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9. Year 2 several teachers utter incredulously
We shouldnt have to do this I did mapping
last year!
8. Many teachers repeatedly ask, Why
should we map? Our books are the curriculum.
7. A teacher cant write an essential question
because he/she cant give a reason for
teaching the content.
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6. Year 4 several teachers utter incredulously
We shouldnt have to do this I did mapping
last year!
5. Some curriculum supervisors alter the mapping
process according to their unique interpretation.
4. Older teachers chant Scope and sequence
whenever mapping is mentioned
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3. Whenever a member of the mapping team
approaches, people scatter in all directions.
2. Some faculty members, even some department
chairs submit less than acceptable maps and were
shocked when the boss returned their maps for
modification.

• We are still mapping, when is that Principal
  going to move on?

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The Titanic sets sail

• Forecast
• Calm seas
• Easy sailing
• Unstoppable
• Luxury all the way
• Best technology available

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Rough Waters

• Technology
• Strike
• Construction
• New passengers
• Old hands
• Merging the two
• Forming alliances
• Who gets in which lifeboat?

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After the Iceberg

• Be positive and celebrate small successes
• Provide instruction/support
• Maintain sense of humor
• Continually increase alliances
• Debrief the whole passage

Learn from your mistakes dont give up!
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Gilligan's Island Theme Song Sherwood Shwartz
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,A
tale bout East High School,to help all our
students excel,we use this simple tool.
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 Essential questions and of course
skills,Technology - content,State Standards are
a must you see. For complete assessments.
Complete Assessments.
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I'm far too busy some might say,But time is all
it costs.And if we don't align horizontally, A
student may be lost. A student may be lost.
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You're wonderin' how it can help youwell just
ask Rick Dunlap.Literacy and tracking
too,collaboration throughout,from new student
to graduate, track achievement.With Curriculum
Map!
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So it documents what is taught in class,in every
discipline.No more gaps or uncertainty,no
rep'etition.
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Heidi, Bena and specly Rick,Will do their very
best,To ensure students meet all standards,and
prepared for ev'ry test.
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We plan! We guide! We encourage!We even
collaborate,Montessori taught us, Every student
wants to do great.
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So join us in the teachers lounge,It really is a
snap,to help all your students succeed, With
Curriculum Map
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,A
tale about East High School,to help all our
students excel,we use this simple tool.
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West Chester East High School Curriculum Mapping
Team Websitehttp//staff.wcasd.k12.pa.us/teache
rs/east_curriculum_mapping/