Introducing digital curriculum to meet the personalization needs of schools and districts
At Open Up Resources, it's our mission to increase equity in education by making excellent, top-rated curricula freely accessible. So, when searching for the right partner to bring our curriculum into a digital environment, we knew Kiddom, whose technology could move curriculum out of isolation and connect it to individualized data and measurement tools, was the ideal match.
Now, for the first time, a full course OER curriculum is being offered in a platform that allows for personalization via technology, while at a lower cost than traditional textbooks. Together, we bridge the gap between curriculum, instruction, and assessments, creating an all-in-one hub for teaching and learning.
Our joint mission is to deliver flexible, high quality curricula to one million students equitably via technology (1) to help teachers personalize instruction using best-in-class curriculum and (2) enable schools and districts to measure the return on investment of curriculum and ensure students are set up for success in the 21st century.
What Digital Curriculum is Now Available?
Open Up Resources Math (Grades 6-8)
This curriculum received an unprecedented high score from EdReports. In fact, it’s the highest rating for a math curriculum on EdReports, as well as the first and only middle school math series to receive the highest designation by EdReports in all three review categories.
EL Education Language Arts (Grades K-5)
This curriculum is another top-rated K–5 ELA curriculum on EdReports. It also earned a “Tier 1” rating by the Louisiana Department of Education. It has been proven to improve literacy outcomes, higher-order thinking, and teacher effectiveness when paired with professional learning.
Reading with Relevance SEL (Grades 2-12)
This curriculum was approved by the Center for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) as an academically-integrated SEL program. It’s an evidence-based social and emotional learning program. Its modular nature enables teachers to adopt units independently or supplement ELA curriculum and/or after-school programs.
Three Ways the OUR + Kiddom Partnership Bridges the Gap Between Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
1. Digitally manage OUR’s high-quality curriculum
Curriculum is centralized and connected to instructional delivery for real-time visibility into student and instructional data. Teachers save time on lesson planning, and use technology for data-informed instruction and intervention. No need to spend hours in Google Drive puzzling together scope and sequence and unit plans.
2. Enable teacher autonomy and student ownership
Using Kiddom, individualization and differentiation is timely and targeted, with technology to assign standards-based OUR curriculum and supplemental resources, assess and track students by mastery, and create individual learning pathways. Great teachers connect content to their students’ lives and this gives teachers the time to do just that.
3. Keep students on track by acting on real-time data
When curriculum artifacts like unit and lesson plans can be traced down to assessment results, educators gain the power to act in real-time. Insights into instructional and performance trends will make it easier than ever to measure implementation fidelity and ensure ROI, while also delivering the right data to every member of the learning community. When you can form an intricate web of support around students, intervention can happen at exactly the right time.
Ready to go digital with your school’s curriculum?
Many states in the U.S. are spending less per student today than they were before the Great Recession. While some superintendents remain enthusiastic about the future of their district, they are less excited about the future of American public education. If education is to be the American engine of opportunity and mobility, schools and districts will need to get scrappier with their funds. The majority of school funding goes towards instructional staff and administrators. Rethinking how we support instructional staff and how to thoughtfully incorporate education technologies can create the conditions necessary to most optimally stretch dollars.
Digital curriculum delivered via a centralized hub for teaching and learning offers cash-strapped schools and districts significant cost savings. It reduces reliance on expensive, quickly out-of-date textbooks, many of which do not meet individual student needs. In addition, our bundled curriculum and platform reduces the redundancies found in many district technology ecosystems. So as we work toward our joint mission, we’re excited to help more schools and districts achieve the wonderful things that were previously thought out of budget. To learn more about taking advantage of this partnership today, click here.
Click here to learn more about digitized curriculum via Open Up Resources. Read what EdSurge said about our partnership announcement.
