Books

Book Publications (Clck on book title for details.)

Streamlining the Curriculum: Using the Storyboard Approach to Frame Learner Journeys, ASCD, Alexandria, VA, 2023. (with Allison G. Zmuda)

Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning EnvironmentsASCDAlexandria, VA 2017. (with Marie Hubley Alcock)

Active Literacy: Connecting Print Literacy with Digital, Media, and Global Competence, Routledge, NY. 2017.

Mastering Digital Literacy. Four Book Series.  Bloomington, IN: Solution-Tree (2014-15)

Mastering Media Literacy

Mastering Global Literacy

Leading the New Literacies

 Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, 

 The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development, ASCD, Alexandria, VA. 2009. (with Ann Johnson)

 Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening, Larchmont, NY. April 2006.

 Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping,  ASCD, Alexandria, VA. November, 2004.]

 Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K–12 ASCDAlexandria, VA, 1997.[

 Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation. ASCD, Alexandria, VA. 1989.

Titles available from curriculum21 authors:

Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Marie Hubley Alcock.  The book dives into how to modernize your school environment from pedagogy, to new teacher job descriptions, to upgrading curriculum and assessment, and the restructuring of learning spaces, schedules, and grouping patterns.

ASCD: Alexandria, VA- 2017

 

Four Book Series on Perspectives on the New Literacies is edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs featuring thought leaders and practitioners.

Solution-Tree: Bloomington IN 2014

Mastering Digital Literacy 

Mastering Media Literacy

Mastering Global Literacy

Leading the New Literacies 

Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World

Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs with Frank W. Baker, Jaimie P. Cloud, Arthur L. Costa, Bena Kallick, Alan November, David Niguidula, Bill Sheskey, Vivien Stewart, Tim Tyson, Stephen Wilmarth
About the Editor and Contributing Authors

(ASCD Premium, Select, and Institutional Plus Member book, January 2010) 6″ x 9″, 251 pages.

Sample Chapters

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An Educational Leader’s Guide to Curriculum Mapping
Creating and Sustaining Collaborative Cultures

by Janet A. Hale and Richard F. Dunlap Jr.

(Corwin Press, 2010) 8.5″ x 11″, 200 pages.

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The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates, Tools, and Resources for Effective Professional Development

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Ann W. Johnson

(ASCD book, 2009) 8 3/8″ x 10 7/8″, 124 pages.

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A Guide to Curriculum Mapping:
Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining the Process

by Janet A. Hale

(Corwin Press, 2008) 8.5″ x 11″, 328 pages.

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Active Literacy Across the Curriculum

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

(Eye on Education book, 2006) 8.5 x 11 inches / 160 pages.

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Keys to Curriculum Mapping: Strategies and Tools to Make It Work

by Susan Udelhofen

(Corwin Press, 2005) 8″ x 10″, 120 pages.

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Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs with Bena O, Kallick, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Mary Ann Holt, Ann W. Johnson, Valerie Truesdale, Joseph Lachowicz, Claire Thompson, Jennie L. Johnson, Michael Lucas, Stephen O’Neil, James M. Wilson
About the Authors

(ASCD Premium and Select Member book, 2004) 8″ x 10″, 182 pages. Also available as an eBook!

Sample Chapters

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The Mentoring Year: A Step-by-Step Program for Professional Development

by Susan Udelhofen

(Corwin Press, 2003) 8 1/2″ x 11″, 264 pages.


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Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

(ASCD Premium Member book, May 1997) 8 1/2″ x 11″, 108 pages.

Sample Chapters

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What is Curriculum 21?

Curriculum 21 is the outgrowth of the work of a dynamic group of educators worldwide, attempting to help colleagues transform curriculum and school designs to match the needs of 21st century learners.  The impetus originated from the Curriculum Mapping work developed by Dr. Jacobs.

After Dr. Jacobs and her team examined maps emerging across the United States and overseas, it was evident that curriculum and instruction remained dated, although both students and teachers recognized the need to become current and forward-thinking in their planning.

Concrete and practical models for updating school programs are the basis for Dr. Jacobs’ book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (ASCD).

Because of its impact on revising and changing education, Curriculum 21 has become a division of Curriculum Designers Inc, whose goal is to provide a full range of resources and services to all educators and schools involved in the journey of Curriculum Mapping.

Visit our Curriculum 21 podcast channel on iTunes…

c21 podcast channel link

Curriculum Mapping: Technology Issues and Resources

 

Major Software Providers:

A number of educators and educational enterprises have been developing software which facilitates computer- and network-based curriculum mapping. We will add resources as more and more come online.
ALL OF THE PROGRAMS we list are reputable. Just as we list various books and resources, we also list various technology groups, leaving it to the professionals at a school to determine what will work best for them.  Clearly many schools develop their own program independently.

Commercial Vendors:

Atlas Curriculum Mapping (Rubicon International)

Embarc Curriculum Mapping 

Chalk

Curriculum Mapper (Curriculum Technology)

Curriculum Trak

Curricuplan (Seacliff Education Solutions)

eDoctrina

Eduplanet21 UnitPlanner

Managebac

Toddle 

 

Other Resources:

Digital Portfolios

This is the work of David Niguidula in Providence, RI. While not directly Curriculum Mapping, Digital Portfolios are in essence “Individual Student Maps.” Integrating student digital portfolios with mapping has been quite successful.

Newsletter Archive

Copies of past Curriculum Designers Newsletters, many of which have examples of how technology has been integrated into specific schools.

Selecting Software Solutions Powerpoint
These are the slides we use when working with individual schools and districts to develop a software selection plan. Feel free to use any of these slides to facilitate this process with your own faculty, administration, and school board members.

Technology Self Evaluation Worksheet

An easy-to-use evaluation form to use first for self-evaluation and then to facilitate discussion and consensus among leadership team members. Slides 18-21 in the Technology Powerpoint above provide talking points for completing each of the three sections of the form. A must to get all members of the leadership team “on the same page.”

Curriculum Mapping: the Four Phase Development Model

The Four Critical Mapping Phases of Curriculum Development

Our professional development programs are organized around the four critical
phases
* of quality curriculum design and mapping.

View the Four Phase Mapping Videos

Video clips in which Heidi Hayes Jacobs discusses the Four Phases of Curriculum Mapping outlined in her book with Ann Johnson.

Our PD Services pages will show you samples of the different types of workshops that faculty members have facilitated in schools, districts, and organizations for each of the mapping phases.

I.
Laying the Foundation
Prologue for Planners, Establishing Reasons to Map, Creating a Vision for Your School
II.
Launching the Process
Ensuring Long-Term Support, Creating Individual Maps, Initiating the Review Process,
Developing Consensus Maps, Master Mapping Strategies
III.
Maintaining, Sustaining and Integrating
Merging Assessment Data into Maps, Integrating Literacy, Developing an Implementation
Plan/Map, Making the HUB work: Integrating Other Initiatives
IV.
Advanced Mapping Tasks
Into the Future: Updating Maps for the 21st Century

Professional Development for Curriculum Mapping: Modules and Maps for Effective Implementation (ASCD) by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Dr. Ann Johnson.

CURRICULUM 21-Essential Education for a Changing World

CURRICULUM 21

Essential Education for a Changing World

(ASCD Premium, Select, and Institutional Plus Member book, January 2010) 6″ x 9″, 251 pages.

If you believe that an essential role of schooling is to prepare students to be successful in today’s world, then here is a must-read book that makes a powerful case for why and how schools must overhaul, update, and breathe new life into the K–12 curriculum. World-renowned curriculum designer Heidi Hayes Jacobs leads an all-star cast of education thought leaders who explain

  • Why K–12 curriculum has to change to reflect new technologies and a globalized world.
  • What to keep, what to cut, and what to create to reflect 21st century learning skills.
  • Where portfolios and new kinds of assessments fit into accountability mandates.
  • How to improve your use of time and space and groupings of students and staff.
  • What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective and develop the habits of mind they need to succeed in school, work, and life.
  • How to re-engineer schools and teaching to engage and improve students’ media literacy.

If you believe that an essential role of schooling is to prepare students to be successful in today’s world, then here is a must-read book that makes a powerful case for why and how schools must overhaul, update, and breathe new life into the K–12 curriculum.

About Curriculum21

Curriculum 21 is the outgrowth of the work of a dynamic group of educators worldwide attempting to help colleagues transform curriculum and school designs to match the needs of 21st century learners. The impetus originated from the Curriculum Mapping work developed by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. As we examined maps emerging across the United States and internationally.  Too often, curriculum and instruction remains dated although both students, parents, teachers and administrators recognize the need to become current and forward thinking in our planning.

Leading-New-Literacies-smallConcrete and practical models for updating your school programs appear in her most recent books, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, (ASCD, 2010),  Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Curriculum Into Your Local School Curriculum, (SINET, 2012), and Leading the New Literacies: Dgital, Media, Global, to be released (Solution-Tree, 2013).

Curriculum 21 is a division of Curriculum Designers whose goal is to provide a full range of resources and services to all educators and schools involved in the journey of Curriculum Mapping. Although the process of facilitating Curriculum Mapping as a curriculum tool began several years earlier, Curriculum Designers, Inc. was officially created in 1997. We know that Distance Learning works because we live it every day. We are a 100% virtual company and go back to seeing a satellite dish on a truck parked in front of Heidi’s home  twenty years ago to carry a state-wide conference.  Today access makes flexibility and flipped professional development to client groups with ease.

Heidi’s work in the area of curriculum integration and rigorous discipline based and interdisciplinary studies was the basis for Curriculum Designers first wave work. When Heidi introduced modern Curriculum Mapping with the publication of her second book, Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12, (ASCD, 1997), the field expanded. Software solutions emerged to support her model. Since that time she has traveled the world delivering keynotes, sponsoring regional workshops, and working directly with teachers on the mapping journey. Since that time, with her books on mapping and active literacy services from Curriculum Designers has expanded.

In addition to her own work, Dr. Jacobs has developed a faculty of experienced national, international, and regional consultants.  Many of these consultants have published books and actively appear at regional workshops. They are available to work with individual schools, school districts, state education departments, media groups, and education organizations both nationally and internationally. Each consultant has in-the-field, on-the-job experience which has proven valuable in implementing projects.

BOLD MOVES for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments

This new book by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Marie Hubley Alcock was released February 17, 2017.

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What will it take to create truly contemporary learning environments that meet the demands of 21st-century society, engage learners, and produce graduates who are prepared to succeed in the world? What skills and capacities do teachers and leaders need to create and sustain such schools? What actions are necessary?

Bold Moves for Schools offers a compelling vision that answers these questions—and action steps to make the vision a reality. Looking through the lenses of three pedagogies—antiquated, classical, and contemporary—authors Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Marie Hubley Alcock examine every aspect of K–12 education, including curriculum, instruction, assessment, and the program structures of space—both physical and virtual—time, and grouping of learners and professionals. In a new job description for teachers, Jacobs and Alcock highlight and expound on the following roles:

  • self-navigating professional learner,
  • social contractor,
  • media critic and media maker,
  • innovative designer,
  • globally connected citizen, and
  • advocate for learners and learning.

With thought-provoking proposals and practical strategies for change, Bold Moves for Schools sets educators on the path to redefining their profession and creating exciting new learning environments. The challenge is unprecedented. The possibilities are unlimited.

“Want to know how to transform learning, teaching, and assessment for the innovation era? Bold Moves is a practical and comprehensive guide that will enable educators to create the classrooms and schools of the future today.”

— Tony Wagner
Author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap.  Professor of Education, Harvard University 

“Jacobs and Alcock present a compelling vision, a powerful framework, a clear roadmap, and a host of practical tools for transforming antiquated schools into innovative learning environments. Bold Moves for Schools is for all education professionals aspiring to better serve today’s children.

— Yong Zhao
Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas; and author of several books, including Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students

Seven School Wide Strategies of Active Literacy

Our work in Active Literacy follows the Seven School Wide Essential Active Literacy Strategies Heidi outlined in Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening (Eye on Education, 2006) :

  • Strategy # 1– Employing Bi-Level Analysis of assessment data
  • Strategy # 2– Replacing the old way of developing vocabulary with THREE distinct approaches to words in EVERY class.
  • Strategy # 3– Elevating CREATIVE note taking and note making skills as evidence of text interaction.
  • Strategy # 4– Using essential questions as a literacy comprehension tool by making it “mental velcro” .
  • Strategy # 5– Developing a school wide consistent editing and revision policy for every class K-12.
  • Strategy # 6– Formally developing and assessing speaking skills through Discussion Types Model and speaking genre.
  • Strategy # 7– Mapping the strategies into the curriculum.

Active Literacy Across the Curriculum

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

(Eye on Education book, 2006) 8.5 x 11 inches / 160 pages.

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Active Literacy

What is Active Literacy?

Student engagement with all forms of text and forms is the goal with an active approach to literacy.    Whether traditional print , visual displays, media, or digital tools, our emphasis is on interaction between the learner and ideas.   We support seven school wide strategies given that  ALL teachers are language teachers.

 

Click here for the Seven School Wide Strategies

 

Mapping the Four Language Capacities

Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are defined and overlapping in our approach to assisting teachers develop student engagement.   We see that curriculum and instruction needs to formally integrate all four to be effective.

 

Linking Literacy to Improved Performance

If a student cannot read a test or directions for a performance task then they can simply not carry out the work.   We believe that professional educators need to learn to unpack assessment results and examine the key literacy components that were necessary to make meaning from the directive.

 

Active Literacy Across the Curriculum

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

(Eye on Education book, 2006) 8.5 x 11 inches / 160 pages.

Purchase this book online.