Curriculum

Offering essential knowledge, integrating it, and making connections to real life. (Breaking Ranks)

These resources will help principals provide leadership for the kind of curriculum work high schools must undertake to prepare students for an uncertain future in a global society.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The largest association devoted strictly to curriculum and instruction, this group offers excellent resources, training, and online information on curriculum renewal and innovation.

National Staff Development Council. Focused on the kind of staff development that produces Results (the name of its journal), this association also provides guidance on teacher-developed curriculum projects and activities that can be used at the local school level.

U.S. Department of Education. The US Department's site contains daily news briefs about national educational issues as well as numerous resources for schools engaged in curriculum revision. Click on the "Education Resources" section for a complete inventory of what's available.

Regional Labs and Centers. An initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, each regional laboratory specializes in specific aspects of educational reform and improvement. You can check out the latest initiatives across the Lab and Center Network by visiting REL Net. Also, be sure to visit the individual lab sites. The resources from these sites are uniformly excellent.

Appalachian Educational Laboratory (AEL)
Rural Education

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)
Technology

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
School Change Processes

Western Regional Educational Laboratory (WestEd)
Assessment and Accountability

Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL)
Curriculum, Learning and Instruction

Pacific Region Educational Laboratory (PREL)
Language and Cultural Diversity

Northeast and Islands Laboratory at Brown University (LAB)
Language and Cultural Diversity

Mid-Atlantic Laboratory for Student Success (LSS)
Urban Education

SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE)
Early Childhood Education

Southwest Education Development Laboratory (SEDL)
Language and Cultural Diversity


Math Curriculum Projects. National Science Foundation funded projects are designed to link mathematics learning to the real world.

Promising Practices from Project Connect. Project Connect, a program to link high school curriculum with real world experiences, offers this monograph on some of the most useful practices for making high school more relevant and engaging.

Content Area Specialists. Each subject area has its own curriculum initiatives. For a closer look at what is happening in each of the content fields, visit these individual sites.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).

International Reading Association (IRA).

Music Teachers' National Association (MTNA).

National Art Education Association (NAEA).

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).

American School Health Association (ASHA).

Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE).

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS).

American Counseling Association (ACA).

National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).

National Educational Computing Association (NECC).