Unboxing the Curriculum

If you’re reading this, you probably have a unit plan nearby—stuffed in a binder, buried in a shared drive, or gleaming from a fresh box of published curriculum. There’s solid content in there. Maybe even great content. But if you’ve found your way to this book, something isn’t lining up: the work doesn’t fit your students, gaps remain, or last year’s units didn’t deliver.

All too often, curriculum shortfalls are chalked up to implementation. But in Unboxing the Curriculum, author Kate Roberts, with Maggie Beattie Roberts, argues that it’s often the road map that needs some work. The path doesn’t lead where it should, and sometimes, there be dragons.

This book offers a field guide for charting a better course through unit planning. In its pages, you’ll learn to:

• see your curriculum clearly
• set smart priorities
• tailor units to your classes
• monitor for equity, engagement and relevance
• build supplemental materials that truly support your students.

With real classroom examples and team-friendly protocols that apply to any subject, grade level, or program alongside a robust appendix full of practical use-tomorrow tools, you’ll navigate prepackaged or scripted curricula and prewritten units without losing sight of the students in front of you. The result? A path learners can take to their destination.

Like a map well marked, Unboxing the Curriculum plots a direct route through mandates and box sets right to the hearts of the students in front of you.