Rigorous Curriculum Design: How to Create Curricular Units of Study That Align Standards, Instruction, and Assessment

One of the pillars of the educational reform movement is curriculum. The curriculum needs to meet two goals: (1) Students need the breadth and depth of content knowledge not just facts for tests (2) But students also need to be taught what they need to know to pass high-stakes tests. Rigorous Curriculum Design is straightforward, sequential and explicit in presenting a step-by-step process educators/curriculum designers can follow to create units of study in any grade, course or content area that answers both these goals.