Authentic Education - Curriculum Framer

The Curriculum Framer: units by design

Grant Wiggins and his team at Authentic Education have taken all their work of the last decade and built the Curriculum Framer to make unit design, supervision, and improvement user-friendly and powerful.

The Curriculum Framer is a curriculum design system based in Understanding by Design. Online and easy to navigate, the Framer provides design space, alignment tools, and professional development.

"The Framer is great: easy to use and able to help us keep track of and refine all our design work."
Maria Tukeva, Principal,
Bell Multicultural High School, Washington D.C.

With the Framer you can:

Design and align new units, based in Understanding by Design
Bring coherence to the curriculum through overarching EQs and understandings
Work with colleagues to develop, teach, critique, and refine your curriculum
Import, add, and edit a consistent set of rubrics
Learn more about UbD though professional development modules when you need them

The Curriculum Framer features purchaseable content, including model units. Use our exemplary units to teach as is, adapt them to meet the needs of your students, or consult them as models for new local curriculum. Also available are dozens of rubrics, as well as essential questions and understandings.

Our software also provides reporting tools to help school and district leaders assess curriculum as it develops. The reporting features can help answer these questions:

Does this unit address and assess the standards adequately?
Which units explore their essential questions most effectively?
Are teachers using an appropriate variety of assessment types?
Do instructional approaches align with best teaching practice?

Visit the Curriculum Framer website today!

For more information, contact Denise Wilbur.