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Curriculum Center

Plan the Curriculum, Then Prove It Was Taught

Curriculum Center is where a school defines its curriculum and plans its teaching. Administrators build the catalogs the whole school works from: frameworks, standards, subject objectives, skills and the conceptual items units draw on. Heads of department design the units; teachers write the lesson plans that deliver them.

The SCL Curriculum Center for curriculum coordinators, tracking standards aligned, ATL skills, concepts and objectives in use, with readiness, frameworks and the concept catalog.

A unit carries its Understanding by Design framing, essential questions, vocabulary, success criteria and the standards it aligns to. An IB division adds key concepts, global context and the statement of inquiry, and a subject outside the IB never sees them, because fields a curriculum does not use never appear at all. In a PYP division, the Programme of Inquiry holds each unit of inquiry with its central idea and lines of inquiry, and the official PYP report card takes its units from there.

Because planning and assessment share the same standards, the planner can show what was covered and what was not. Coverage names the standards never taught and the ones over-taught. Mastery shows which were actually assessed, and how the class did.

Curriculum Catalogs

Curriculum Frameworks

Curriculum Center lists the frameworks schools teach, from Common Core and Advanced Placement to the National Curriculum of England, Cambridge, Pearson Edexcel, OxfordAQA, Canada's provincial curricula and the IB. Each pairs to a division by its academic system, or a division names its own, so it opens on the frameworks it teaches.

Ready-Made Standards

Import Standards offers 46 ready-made packs in their published wording: Common Core Mathematics and English Language Arts, NGSS, 22 Advanced Placement courses, all twelve National Curriculum of England subjects, and Cambridge, Pearson Edexcel and OxfordAQA. A corrected pack re-imports without losing what teachers aligned. AP and Advanced Placement are trademarks of College Board, which has not reviewed or endorsed these packs.

Subject Objectives

Fill a subject's objectives in one click from ready-made packs: the subject aims of all twelve National Curriculum of England subjects, the Cambridge IGCSE and OxfordAQA English as a Second Language assessment objectives, and the IB's MYP, PYP and DP objectives. Teachers tag each task with the exact objective it assesses.

Skills Tracking

Any division can track skills under the name your school uses, such as ATL Skills, Competencies or 4Cs. Seed it in one step from the IB's MYP, PYP or DP sets, 21st-Century Skills, Habits of Mind or Ontario's Learning Skills and Work Habits, or upload your own pack.

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Planning Together, From Programme to Unit

Programme of Inquiry

A grid of levels and terms holds every PYP unit of inquiry with its theme, central idea, lines of inquiry and key concepts, and one unit can be taught in several levels at once. Year promotion copies the programme forward, so coordinators start next year from this year's units.

Curriculum Readiness

One screen shows, for every division, how many subjects have standards, subject objectives and assessment criteria attached, and whether band descriptors are defined, coloured from red to green. Every gap links to the catalog that closes it, so coordinators know where to start.

Plan Units Together

A unit's lead invites the colleagues planning it, each set to view, edit or co-lead, and the school decides, per division if it likes, whether units are planned by heads of department only or by teachers together. Departments build units as a team instead of swapping files.

Every Unit Version Kept

Every unit keeps a history of its saved versions, any version can be restored while the current one stays in the history, and versions submitted or approved are never pruned. Heads of department can always return to an earlier plan.

Import Your Unit Plans

Bring unit plans in from a Word or PDF document through SCL Connect, or from a file exported by another SCL school, then check every field on a review screen before any unit is added. Teachers keep the plans they already wrote instead of retyping them.

Planner Section Packs

Add a ready-made set of planner sections to a subject in one step, from the PYP, MYP or general scheme of work packs, each section explaining what teachers write in it, or load your own pack. Heads of department give every unit in the subject the same shape.

Unit and Lesson Planning

Unit Planner

Heads of department design each unit with its Understanding by Design framing, the standards it aligns to, its assessments and its resources. Duplicate a unit as a fresh draft, or export it to PDF for a review meeting.

The Year on a Timeline

The Timeline view lays the whole year out on one screen: each unit across its months in its own colour, filling as it is taught, a Today marker where the class stands, and a card per unit with its dates, lessons, assessments and approval status.

Lesson Planner

Teachers build each lesson from named sections, budgeting every activity against the lesson's length and ticking them off as they teach. Where SCL Connect is switched on, it can draft those activities from the whole unit: its standards, objectives, assessments and concepts.

Review and Approval

Units and lesson plans are submitted for review and approved by a head of department, with the subject's other heads notified. Comment threads sit on the unit itself, so the conversation lives beside the plan instead of in email.

Coverage and Mastery

Coverage Analytics

Coverage names the standards never taught and the ones over-taught, the skills never developed and the ones over-emphasized, mapping each against an Introduce, Develop, Master progression. It reads the shape of the teaching, including anything mastered without an introduction.

Pacing

Pacing compares the lessons a unit expected against the lessons actually taught, with a completion percentage and an On Track, Behind, Stalled or Complete status. The expected figure comes from a school-wide default, or a pinned override on the unit.

Standards Mastery

For every standard, see how many summative assessments covered it, the class average, formative results alongside and the date it was last assessed. Standards never summatively assessed are called out first, and every one drills down per student.

Carried Into Next Year

Promoting to a new academic year copies each unit in full: its framing, standards, skills, concepts, inquiry lines and resources all travel. Every unit arrives as a draft, so next year's plan goes through review again rather than being assumed.

Connected modules

Works Hand in Hand With

These modules share the same student record, so what happens in one shows in the others.

See Your Curriculum Planned and Covered

Walk through the Unit Planner, the ready-made standards packs, the skills catalog and coverage analytics with our team, and see which standards your units cover and which they never teach.