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SUMMER INSTITUTES 2012

Join Grant Wiggins and his team for an engaging and thought-provoking summer institute in Understanding by Design. These hands-on workshops will enable all participants to leave with both understanding and skill in the design of learning.

July 11-13: Introduction to UbD
Led by Dr. Grant Wiggins and Jessica Raba, this multimedia workshop is designed for UbD beginners and those who would like a thorough review. Over the course of three days, you'll explore the big ideas of UbD and transfer your learning to complete a draft unit that you can use in your own classroom.
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July 17-19: UbD: Train the Trainers
The key workshop for administrators and teacher leaders charged with moving a UbD initiative forward in their building or districts.
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July 25: UbD & Technology
Meaningful technology integration: learn to write and revise UbD units by explicitly including tools and skills that support information literacy.
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July 26-27: UbD: Designing from the Standards
Learn to unpack standards and uncover what students must know, understand, and be able to do in order to create first-rate units and assessments.
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More Information about these and other conferences.

ONLINE UbD TRAINING CENTER

Design, Align, and Find Ubd Units.

· Use point and click interfaces to add and align standards, overarching questions, and rubrics.

· Browse our extensive library of contributed units, then copy and edit them for your own classroom.

· Schedule units, graph your curriculum on a timeline, and report on goal coverage.

Visit curriculum-framer.com today!

Self-paced, professional development courses designed by Grant Wiggins, co-creator of Understanding by Design.

Each course contains:

video commentary by Grant Wiggins
presentations, exercises, and detailed text on design issues and concepts
self-tests with immediate feedback

Individuals and groups welcome.

Visit authenticeducationonline.org today.

Together Curriculum Framer and UbD101 form a powerful professional development suite.

Sharpen UbD chops with in-depth, multi-media resources including narrated presentations with Grant Wiggins.
Practice and perfect the art of building successful curriculum with the guided design template in Curriculum Framer.

UbD 101 and Curriculum Framer for one low price!

Use our easy group ordering page to place your order using a credit card, purchase order, or check.

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GRANT'S BLOG

Newest Post:

Value added – why its use makes me angry (OR: a good idea gone bad, again, in education)
May 06, 2012

Alert readers (as Dave Barry likes to say) will have noted that I haven’t blogged in a while. The reasons …

Some responses to replies to my posts on curriculum reform

I have received a number of interesting questions and comments in response to my 2 blog posts on curriculum. Before …

Just back from a whirlwind at ASCD and Harvard University

6 days on the road and I’m a gonna make it home tonight…. (great old song) 4 days at ASCD …

Rethinking Curriculum Writing, Part 2

I was delighted to see that so many people not only read my last post on curriculum but offered such …

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