Scoping Your Own Work

Your project manager scopes the project. You scope your tasks. These are different skills, and the second one is yours to own.

Working Iteratively: Drafts, Feedback, and Revision

Iteration is not a sign that your first draft was bad. It is the process. Understanding that changes everything.

Working Across a Team

You are not writing alone. Understanding the humans around you is as important as understanding the content.

About the course

Most curriculum developers come to the work as subject matter experts: former teachers, instructional coaches, content specialists. They know curriculum. What they often don't know is how a large curriculum project actually runs: why timelines slip, what all those roles actually do, how to give feedback without damaging relationships, and how to know whether the draft they just spent two weeks on is done or not. This course fills that gap, as a practical orientation to what it feels like to be an individual contributor on a curriculum team, the rhythms, the ambiguities, the hand-offs, and the moments where knowing the unwritten rules makes all the difference.

Who this course is for:

● Educators working on district or department-wide curriculum projects ● New and early-career curriculum developers working as individual contributors ● Contract curriculum developers working across different organizational structures and processes

Earn Credits From TCSJ

Upon successful completion of the course, participants can earn 1 credit from TCSJ.

Curriculum

6 Chapters · 46 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

    1. Welcome to Project Management for Curriculum Work Free preview
    2. Course Introduction Free preview
    3. Optional College Credits Free preview
    4. TCSJ Syllabus Free preview
  2. 2

    How Curriculum Projects Actually Work

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      Objectives

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      The Lifecycle of a Curriculum Project

    3. Annotated Project Timeline Activity Free preview
    4. Sample Project Timeline Free preview
    5. Who Does What: Roles on a Curriculum Team Free preview
    6. Role-Mapping Quiz Free preview
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      Waterfall, Iterative, and the Real World

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      Agile vs. Waterfall Video

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      Reflection

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    Scoping Your Own Work

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      Objectives

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      What 'Write a Lesson' Actually Means

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      The Planning Fallacy

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      Estimation Traps for Curriculum Writers

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      Task Breakdown Exercise

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      The Pomodoro Technique

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      Personal Scoping Worksheet

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      AI Workflow: Pressure-Testing a Brief

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      Reflection

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    Working Iteratively: Drafts, Feedback, and Revision

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      Objectives

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      What Iteration Actually Means

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      Reading Feedback: A Triage Framework

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      Annotated Feedback Exercise

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      Giving Feedback as a Peer

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      Peer Feedback Practice

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      AI Workflow: Pre-Submission Self-Review

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      Reflection

  5. 5

    Working Across a Team

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      Objectives

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      The Team as a System

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      RACI Matrix: Understanding Team Roles

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      The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

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      Role Tensions: A Case Study

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      Asynchronous Communication on Curriculum Teams

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      Discussion

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    Definitions of Done: Knowing When to Ship

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      Objectives

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      What a Definition of Done Actually Is

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      Preference vs. Principle

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      DoD Analysis Exercise

    5. The Go/No-Go Decision Free preview
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      AI Workflow: Final Pre-Submission Check

    7. Quiz Free preview
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      Capstone: A Contributor's Guide to Yourself

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      Final Course Reflection

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