Why Choose Power Curriculum?

    

Power Curriculum Tool - The Most advanced online tool available to help prioritize and map your curriculum

Advanced Design - The Power Curriculum Tool was designed with extensive teacher and administrator input. The Power Curriculum Tool assists teachers as they transform state standards into manageable learning topics. Creating learning maps and revising them as needed is easy with the Power Curriculum Tool. Teacher requests and suggestions were implemented throughout the development process.

Standards Driven - Rather than aligning standards to current teaching units, Power Curriculum requires teachers to analyze their state standards, identify specific learning outcomes and build their curriculum from standards into teaching units.

Maps and Timelines - The results of the Power Curriculum mapping process is the creation of valuable resources for teachers including Topic Maps, Student Learning Maps, Course Map Timelines and vocabulary reports.

Ease of Use - Teachers who have used the Power Curriculum Tool comment how intuitive the design is. In addition, online help cues are available at every step in the process in both narrative and audio format. Phone support is just a call away. The Power Curriculum Tool is available 24/7 from any internet access point.

Cost - The cost is less than our competitors. The Power Curriculum Tool comes with licenses for staff, Learning-Focused consultant guide and resource materials for reference by staff participating in the development process.

Efficiency - The Power Curriculum Tool members can develop a K-12 draft curriculum in only 2 days (3 for ELA). This reduces substitute or stipend cost normally associated with a curriculum writing project. It also ensures that your curriculum can remain consistently aligned to state assessment demands.

Reports Generated - Upon completion of the project, standard alignment reports provide clear documentation where each state standard is being addressed. In addition, topic maps and vocabulary reports show where critical content is being taught.

Link to Instruction - Student learning maps developed as part of the curriculum project are systematically rolled into the Learning-Focused unit planner. This planner assists teachers in building quality lessons and units that reflect the focus of each unit developed in the curriculum project. Instruction and curriculum are seamlessly integrated.

Publishing Capabilities - Each student learning map, course timeline and student learning is automatically assigned a unique web address. This enables these documents to be posted on the district or individual teacher websites for parent and student access. The Power Curriculum Tool provides the necessary controls to district as they determine what and when to publish.

Sharing - Curriculum developed is easily shared with district staff. District personnel have the capacity to share materials as they are collaborating on the development of the curriculum. All district staff can then gain access to curriculums immediately upon their finalization and approval by the district.

Revision Capabilities - Because the Power Curriculum Tool is an online tool, changes made and approved may be distributed quickly and seamlessly. Printing updated copies for each staff member is no longer needed. Changes made in any revision process are done in the Power Curriculum Tool and are ready upon completion.