Here is another piece of the puzzle for curriculum tracking. I loved this blog about working in the open, and it has tons of valuable links in it to examples. If everyone involved in schools was open with their work like this then we would all be building our curriculum maps as part of the process of what we do.
I love this post and it reminded me to put in print some thoughts that have been floating around in my head. To me this post is what curriculum reporting and mapping must look like in 2011. It is an example on two levels. First, Jeff's post is reporting. He has gathered curricular data, commented on it and published it for any interested party to see. Second, and perhaps most important, the teacher by having class has produced both a map of her curriculum and a transparent ability to see what is happening. All this and the map and transparency were done by the students.
I have done a lot of work over the years in the name of curriculum. Some of it has remained unused by anyone. For years my map was a list of topics with chapters and investigations hand written on one sheet of paper. I feel like in 2011 our curriculum maps need to be open, transparent, available, flexible, and living. Most importantly they need to seem useful to all participants: students, teachers, administrators, parents, politicians and the public.
In the first segment of our opening tech session we asked teachers to place themselves on a progression of adoption of Moodle tools in their classroom.