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Welcome to the Rubicon International Podcast Channel, where you can keep up on the latest developments in education, technology and curriculum mapping.

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Episode 1

Why Map?

This podcast will explore the reasons curriculum mapping is being adopted as a core process to improve teaching and learning by schools around the world.

Episode 2

The Eight Keys to Successful Curriculum Review

This podcast provides a framework and helpful strategies for conducting curriculum review to ensure the best possible curriculum for our students.

Episode 3

The Road to Mapping Quality

This podcast highlights some of the key points to consider when embarking on the journey of implementing a process of continuous mapping quality improvement.

Episode 4

Approaches to Unit Design

This podcast reviews various approaches to developing units, your fundamental building blocks in the creation of your curriculum.

Episode 5

Designing Curriculum for the 21st Century

This podcast addresses the need to prepare students for an unpredictable future and ways to incorporate critical new skills into the mapping process.

Episode 6

Schools in the City Episode #1 - Varying Vogue Assessments

This is the first in a series of innovative educational podcasts inspired by CCSSO's 38th Annual Conference on Student Assessment, HBO's Sex and the City and ATLAS Curriculum Mapping. In this first episode, meet education fashionistas Kerry and Sarah. During an afternoon shopping excursion, they realize that when it comes to assessments (and shoes) variety is the spice of life!

Episode 7

Schools in the City Episode #2 - Fashionable Frequency in Assessment

When it comes to testing, how often is desirable? While sipping cappuccinos at a downtown bistro, Kerry and Sarah wonder about the frequency and type of testing across grade levels: what is necessary to ensure actual understanding versus short-term learning? After all, we want to leave a lasting impression

Episode 8

Schools in the City Episode #3 - Authentic Assessments meets Couture Curriculum

Evaluating from inside the classroom, what constitutes quality? In this episode, Kerry and Sarah discuss designer knock-offs and a high-stakes wardrobe in the world of education and fashion, realizing standardized testing and mass-produced accoutrement has its place, but it is only part of the design picture.

Episode 9

Curriculum Mapping: Prologue and Setting the Stage

In Part #1 educational consultant Janet Hale addresses the question "How do we get started with curriculum mapping?" and explores the role of purposeful prologue.

Episode 10

Curriculum Design and Practice with Janet Hale - Part 2

Part #2 continues to explore the initial steps in getting started with curriculum mapping and focuses on the importance of differentiating between "teaching" and "learning".

Episode 11

Digital Citizenship: Engaging the School Community

This Podcast highlights the approach to Digital Citizenship at Walworth Barbour in Israel. Steve Roberts outlines the school's approach to engaging teachers and parents in the responsible use of technology and the role of curriculum mapping.

Episode 12

Getting Results: A Conversation about the Mapping Process

Well known international educator Sharon Sperry outlines the approach that she used at the International School of Estonia to implement mapping and the outcomes that occurred as a result of their school curriculum review process.

Episode 13

Curriculum Mapping for Administrators and Teacher Leaders

In this Podcast Rubicon's Ben Zang speaks with well known consultant Janet Hale about curriculum mapping as a strategy for administrators and teacher leaders and the role of mapping in bringing about sustained strategic change.





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