Eduphoria Forethought District-Wide Digital Lesson Planner with Built-in Common Core Standards

Planning for Forethought

Import Users in 3 Easy Steps  Obtain the import template from Eduphoria  Export users from Infinite Campus  Send to Eduphoria

The GO-TO Group “Guinea Pigs”  This GO-TO group will be just that, the people that others can go to when they want the course tree or learning standards changed.  We chose a teacher from each grade and subject area.  You also have a person in your grade and subject area that can help you when you need help with Forethought

Meet With GO-TO  Sat down with each grade and subject and decided how to organize the course tree and learning standards for them.  They can be different from grade to grade and subject to subject.

3 Steps to Building Curriculum  Manage Course Tree  Think of your Course Tree as the “shell” that holds everything together

3 Steps to Building Curriculum  Manage Learning Standards  Take your time with organizing your learning standards, this is the “meat” of everything you do.

3 Steps to Building Curriculum  Adding Lessons  When you type in your daily lesson plans these are the “toppings.”

The Course Tree (Shell)  The forethought scope and sequence tree editor allows you to organize courses in a logical structure for easy navigation.

Learning Standards (Meat) Learning standard can be a student expectation, instructional/district standards, guiding questions, essential understanding, or simply a placeholder for information.

Lesson Plans (Toppings)

Wham!!! A Forethought Taco

Using Forethought

Adding Standards to the Lesson Planner  It is as easy as a double click  The lesson planner will remember what standards you have covered and what day you covered them.

Standards Coverage Report

Entering Lesson Plan “Toppings”  You create your own custom lesson plan template  Treat it just like a word document, simply click and type.  You can add hyperlinks directly in your lesson planner  Attach files to your lesson planner

Lesson Plan Views  Day View  Week View  By Course

Day View

Week View

Course View

Team Planner  Team planners allow you to plan with your content, cross curriculum, cross grade or even across the district.  Teams plans are collaborative and there is no owner or “Team Leader”

Look Who’s Lookin….  Only the people that are set as Principals or Curriculum Directors can look at your lesson planner  They can only look not touch  Principals can add a note about your lesson plans and this note is ed to you

Now Lets Take a Closer Look