1. NAF’s New Curriculum Announcing The Rollout of New Courses

2. Six New Courses Now Available AOF: Principles of Finance Financial Services AOHT: Principles of Hospitality & Tourism Geography & World Cultures AOIT: Principles of Information Technology Digital Video and Digital Media

3. NAF Academy Members Are Invited to Become Curriculum Fellows  Curriculum Fellows Obtain:  Stipends  Kinkos photocopying vouchers for curriculum materials  Attend a regional meeting with other Curriculum Fellows to provide feedback on the courses.  Have selected work featured in a new NAF Curriculum Book to be published by the Pearson Foundation  In return, Curriculum Fellows:  Use the new course material  Provide detailed feedback for improvements in the courses  Share exemplars of student applications.  Attend a region meeting and participate in several web conferences.

4. How New Courses Will be Rolled Out  Both new and existing courses will be on the NEW NAF Curriculum Webpage.  Teachers have the choice of using the new material or existing material for 2007-08

5. The New NAF Curriculum Webpage!

6. New Curriculum Features  Content advice from NAF teachers, Advisory Board Members, & Industry Partners.  Linkages to national educational standards  Two projects per course.  Detailed unit plans with lessons, student resources, teacher resources, and student readings.  Scan Skills that encouraging teamwork and communication skills

7. And That’s Not All  Integration of literacy strategies to improve student reading comprehension, vocabulary & writing.  Ideas for curriculum integration.  Extension activities.  Assessment tools.  Career options lessons.

8. And More to Come Revisions of the six new courses based on feedback from the NAF Curriculum Fellows Nine new courses for piloting in 2008-09. New interactive features on the NAF Curriculum Webpage.

9. Academy Assumptions  Begin creating new courses by focusing on courses that NAF Academies need most.  Assume that every course sequence begins with a “principles” course, which serves as a foundation for further study.  Following principles course, each field of study has three “essential” courses which students take next.  Following these four initial courses, students take additional NAF courses.

10. Course Assumptions  Courses designed to address key standards drawn from National standards  Courses designed to introduce key course themes while at the same time:  Courses to share general structure: Objectives, Springboard, Activity Sequence, Closure  Courses to be structured in a way that assumes 60 “class sessions” for instruction, 20 for project time (and 10 additional days)  Courses to be supported with Unit and Lesson Plans, and with Resource Materials for teachers and students, and reader- support for teachers.

11. Five Characteristics of a NAF Graduate  College Ready  Career Oriented  Effective Communicator  Problem Solver  Engaged Learner

12. Key Features of NAF Curriculum  At least two projects per course.  Plus one culminating demonstration of learning.  Inquiry-based instructional practices that promote rigor & relevance.  Evidence of student learning written, oral, visual, or technological form.

13. Criteria for Driving Questions: Source: Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12 (Heidi Hayes Jacobs. 1997, ASCD)  Driving questions are the essence of what you believe students should examine and know.  Are used as a curriculum planner.  Used as an activity organizer.  Are designed to promote rigor (ambiguity, complexity, provocativeness, emotion).  Can be developed by both teachers and students.