Curriculum
Our Mission
The Curriculum Crafter® Tool provides a standards and content expectation-based mastery curriculum to enhance teacher and school administrator efforts to maximize student achievement through the intentional and thoughtful application of a web-based, content-rich curriculum product that is fully aligned with state standards, benchmarks, and content expectations.
Who We Are
The Curriculum Crafter® Tool assists schools and districts in improving student achievement by providing a robust curriculum with embedded resources, lessons, assessments, differentiation strategies and more. Our consultation and implementation guidance combines the latest research and development in curriculum design, assessment, alignment, instruction and management. All standards, analyses, assessments, and resources are the collaborative product of exemplary educators from local school districts and Kent ISD staff.
Who We Serve
Curriculum Crafter® Tool is used currently by educators in public and non-public school districts and colleges/universities within the state of Michigan. Both teachers and administrators appreciate the dynamic, yet easy to use format of Curriculum Crafter content that helps improve the quality and relevance of instruction, while also increasing the collaboration and focus of all teaching staff. Created in Kent County by master teachers for all teachers, it is a vibrant expression of the latest research in instruction and assessment.
Michigan Content Expectations
Is it difficult to maintain the alignment of your curriculum with changing Michigan Grade Level and High School Content Expectations? Are you less than fully satisfied with the alignment overall and do you suspect that your students could achieve more if your curriculum was more closely aligned? As a licensee of Curriculum Crafter, you can be sure to have the most up-to-date, fully aligned K-12 curriculum management and decision tool on the market today.
Kent Intermediate School District's Curriculum Crafter® Tool provides a content rich, K-12 curriculum that is tightly aligned to the standards and benchmarks of the Michigan Curriculum Framework. It is a comprehensive curriculum, including lessons, assessments, and resources that can powerfully improve collaboration, instruction and student achievement.
Always Updated
As GLCE's change at the national and state levels, Kent ISD and exemplary teachers from throughout Kent County work diligently to align the new standards to the curriculum and they continue with the detailed process of revising instructional content so you can be assured that the curriculum you use is completely relevant and up-to-date. All changes and revisions are dated and are clearly posted to the Curriculum Crafter site so each local district may update their version of the curriculum master anytime, in a matter of minutes, when it is convenient for them. Teachers today are asked to do so much more than teach and many are asked to develop curriculum content in addition to their other responsibilities. Many have neither the interest or skill to do so and the importance of the alignment work makes their task that much more critical. Curriculum Crafter® Tool can remove this added burden for teachers since the monitoring and updating is done expertly by Kent ISD. This allows teachers to focus their time on what they do best...teach.
For More Information
For detailed information on the alignment of Curriculum Crafter content with Grade Level and High School Content Expectations, please contact:
For Mathematics and Science Content
Allison Camp phone: 616-365-2272
For ELA and Social Studies Content
Mark Raffler phone: 616-447-3075