In many cases, faculty members keep their eyes on their own courses without fully understanding how their pieces fit into the whole. Curriculum mapping lets educators collect and record curriculum-related data that identifies the core skills and content taught, the processes employed and the assessments used for each subject area and grade level. new school or district, adjusting to a different environment and education style can be, overwhelming. An effective curriculum provides and involves teachers, students, administrators and community stakeholders with a measurable plan and structure for quality education delivery. This combined with the tedious and time-consuming nature of curriculum mapping make encouraging collaboration challenging. Rather than being owners of their unit planners, teachers have editing rights to the planners, thus preventing the deletion of files and helping orient new teachers with what’s been done before. It can range from first reviews of all maps by all teachers at a proofreading level to getting involved with more in-depth small group review, where a group of 5 to 8 educators share their findings and questions based on the first review and bring their feedback to further small group sessions and a large group (all-staff) review which ensures each teacher’s ability to read the curriculum map and addresses revision points for immediate remediation or further research. “Curriculum mapping becomes an identity for what the school is doing by creating a unified system that takes all the units taught in an entire school and tying them together through automatic tagging and mapping,” Anderson says. [CDATA[// >