The Learning-Focused Toolbox is an easy to use, comprehensive solution for developing standards driven curriculum, units, and lessons with embedded exemplary practices and research-based strategies.
The Learning-Focused Toolbox becomes an online and live resource for your learning community that focuses everyone on what is really important for learning.
The Learning-Focused Toolbox connects curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Using Toolbox, educators collaboratively prioritize, organize, and actualize a curriculum, units, and lessons that really raise achievement.
The Learning-Focused Toolbox has many features that can help you implement exemplary practices.
The Tools in Toolbox include:
Stride Teacher Support and Monitoring Tool
Stride is a walkthrough, goal setting, and reflection meeting tool that helps schools collect, understand, and use implementation data to increase achievement.
Power Curriculum Tool
The Power Curriculum helps districts develop curriculum maps, guides, and pacing guides. The tool provides the ability to prioritize standards, run curriculum development reports, group maps into courses, and develop course pacing guides.
Curriculum Editor Tool
The Curriculum Editor allows districts to edit the state and common core standards as well as add their own standards into Toolbox for use when developing curriculum maps, units, and lessons.
Toolbox Customizer Tool
The Toolbox Customizer allows schools and/or districts to completely customize the planning templates in Toolbox. You can use this tool to rename plan components (such as renaming Lesson Essential Questions to Guiding Questions) and more.
Lesson and Unit Planning Tool
The Lesson and Unit Planning tool provides teachers with an efficient way to plan and share Learning-Focused lessons and units. Use the tool to transform standards into learning with the Know-Understand-Do Organizer and Student Learning Maps, connect exemplary practices in Acquisition Lessons, connect Extending Thinking Lessons and activities to your Acquisition Lessons and standards, and plan units for learning.