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Activities are student learning experiences that capture instructional content and , best practices, and resources in the curriculum. These are the experiences that do not change year to year, unless necessary or when revised. They are captured within the curriculum feature at the topic level of Embarc, as they are can be aligned with to learning targets. If your district plans to utilize the lesson planning feature, activities are the main component of a lesson plan (and make it simple!).
The purpose is to incorporate the details of what a teacher does, students do, learning targets, standards, and links to instructional content and resources
Teachers can select these in their lesson plans as the “meat” of instruction
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Your district’s personalized rollout strategy and timelines are discussed and recorded in the EMBARC Implementation Guide. Below you will find some typical rollout strategies and timelinescaptured in the Kick-Off Meeting.
Rollout Strategy
Typically, we see one of three strategies employedWhile we will work with your district to customize a rollout strategy, below are some popular examples:
District-wide, all departments, all grades – while this is the most aggressive strategy, it is where everyone eventually wants to be. In choosing this strategy you may need to be sure that you have adequate support resources (for example, professional development) in place for your staff.
Department by department – this is a somewhat slower implementation, but it does allow a district to focus support resources on departments of greatest need first. Often in this approach districts will address a targeted set of core and noncore departments each year, often based on resource adoption cycles or standard set releases.
Grade by grade – this is not a suggested rollout approach as effective curriculum initiatives should be K-12 focused to ensure a complete articulation of the standards.
Timelines
Please understand that the timelines discussed here are just a guideline, many factors such as staff experience, staff work time, and standard set releases all impact these timelines. We have seen districts integrate their curriculum in one year, but it can take several years for a complete K-12 articulation. Below are some examples of implementation timelines:
Single-year implementation, all departments, all grades – To accomplish this scenario, a district either has existing curriculum that they are entering into Embarc or is documenting what is already done rather than developing curriculum.
Multi-year implementation, all departments, all grades – We would suggest two years, as the longer the initial integration process, teams could lose their momentum.
Departmental implementation – Integrating 1 – 2 departments per year may result in a slower implementation
Embarc Implementation Guide
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Roles
The following terminology is used to refer to Embarc users. All user levels can be changed by the System Administrator at any time in the Users tab in Administrative Functions.
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Embarc offers several course status options to choose from. These options can be changed on the course details page, and impact the visibility on your district’s Embarc site as described below:
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Please note: Published and Being Revised are the only options in which courses will be visible on the public site.