Overview
Garnet Valley School District, located in Pennsylvania, engaged in a four-stage, student-centered course design process that included an emphasis on using Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Understanding by Design (UbD). This design process included professional learning and an intentional focus on a variety of domains which include:
- Instructional Design
- Educators focus on cultivating intentionally and authentically designed student learning experiences, building interactions, and delivering content in multiple modalities like face-to-face, online, and blended settings.
- Curriculum Design
- To create and utilize focused, high-quality curriculum, district leaders leverage a five-year curriculum review process that includes the understanding by design curriculum framework as the foundation of all curriculum design creation.
- Resource Design
- School leaders continuously collect, curate, and create activities and OER aligned to student learning outcomes.
- Course Design
- Students must be able to access the content in multiple modalities.