"Designing Units for Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships"

 Creative Change offers 1-3 day workshops focused on unit design. The program provides teachers with frameworks, tools, and support to develop effective units that utilize research-based instructional strategies. Using our tested instructional framework, teachers learn how to sequence lessons within a unit so that students connect to the content, develop deep understanding, make informed decisions, and engage in meaningful actions.

Based on the most current approaches to instructional design, the workshop takes teachers through a step-by-step process of defining "essential understandings", guiding questions, indicators of achievement, and assessment-- and instructional strategies. A clear toolkit provides templates, examples, and other resources to support the process. Teachers walk away with a "unit makeover" that will engage, challenge, and inspire students.

Schools can create a customized programs by combining this workshop with additional sessions on our content areas: Economics  | The Ecological Footprint  | Land Use  | Food Systems  | Culture.

Contact us to learn more and to discuss your professional development goals.

Creative Change's Instructional Framework