Herzl/RMHA is pleased to be the joint recipient, along with Denver Academy of Torah, of a three-year grant from Rose Community Foundation to launch curriculum mapping.
Curriculum mapping is a process of collecting and organizing curriculum data such as, goals, unit design, skills, content, assessments, resources in each unit of every subject area and grade level. The completed curriculum map is a tool that helps teachers plan, evaluate, and adjust both individual units, as well as an entire course.
Since the map is stored electronically, administrators can analyze the unit data by grade, subject-matter or teacher. In this way, gaps and redundancies in scope and sequence can be discovered; opportunities for integration among subject-matter areas can be identified; and alignment to standards can be measured.
The program is being customized for Herzl/RMHA by Atlas, the curriculum mapping arm of Rubicon International. Atlas has implemented mapping at approximately 5,000 schools in 48 states and 56 countries and is popular among Jewish day schools because of its ability to handle Hebrew language data.
