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Curriki – Connecting Educators Worldwide |
"Learning is the core of everything everywhere. When a person shares lessons on Curriki, that person is helping the planet instructionally. This concept of sharing learning locally and globally is very powerful." |
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Fred Podolski Nassau BOCES School Districts Nassau County, New York, USA Executive Director, Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology
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2) How do you use Curriki? We use Curriki to author, share, and organize instructional content and teaching best practices. Two years ago our districts were awarded a $1 million grant over three years to train American History teachers. Entering our third year of this grant, we are actively using Currki to organize and share American History content. Last summer the Nassau BOCES paid teachers to write several curricula units aligned to our standards. We used the Curriki platform to organize that content and make it accessible and searchable to not only educators within our district, but to any teacher in the world interested in our content. Our Nastech group is using the Curriki groups tool to define and share what it means to be a 21st century school. This group of educators has really embraced Curriki.
3) Why do you use Curriki? We use Curriki because the platform satisfies many of our districts’ needs—the ability to collaborate across classrooms and schools, the ability to build curricula using standardized templates, the ability to search for classroom content and to align that content to New York states standards and performance indicators.
4) What is your favorite aspect of Curriki? The site is very well organized and user-friendly. As Curriki has evolved, it has become very easy for teachers to post and share instructional content. It is easy to train new and experienced teachers how to navigate, use and contribute to the system. What I really love about Curriki is that by contributing content to the site, teachers are both creating good for their classrooms, as well as for the rest of the world. Learning is the core of everything everywhere. When a person shares lessons on Curriki, that person is helping the planet instructionally. This concept of sharing learning locally and globally is very powerful.
5) How do you plan to use Curriki in the future? We plan to expand our curricula writing efforts on Curriki, as well as the number of teachers actively participating in the Curriki global community. Our technology directors are going to use Curriki in a variety of capacities. In particular, we are planning to use Curriki to build content and “collegial circles” (i.e. professional learning communities) in the STEM content areas.
6) Is there anything else you’d like to share with the Curriki community? Teachers are always looking for the best of activities. Having access to a treasure trove of activities created by the best teachers is the way to go. Curriki enables this to happen!
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