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The impetus originated from the Curriculum Mapping work developed by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. As we examined maps emerging across the United States and internationally. Too often, curriculum and instruction remains dated although both students, parents, teachers and administrators recognize the need to become current and forward thinking in our planning. Concrete and practical models for updating your school programs appear in her most recent books, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, (ASCD, 2010), Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Curriculum Into Your Local School Curriculum, (SINET, 2012), and Leading the New Literacies: Dgital, Media, Global, to be released (Solution-Tree, 2013).
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