Stop teaching curriculum that makes you feel meh and let us teach you how to design curriculum that inspires you every single day. From classic novel units like The Great Gatsby to modern lit circle choice units, we'll show you the way to build a curiosity-driven, skill-based, and student-centered school year
You've come to the right place.
Let's double check that we are the perfect fit for where you find yourself in your teaching life right about now.
You are in the stages of considering a new year-long curriculum
You are building a brand new curriculum and need ideas for essential questions that fit themes and skills you need to teach
You taught your map as-is once or twice, but didn't love how the year turned out
You're a brand new teacher that's been handed a stack of books you're panicking
The co-hosts of the Brave New Teaching Podcast & co-creators of Curriculum Rehab.
We've been teaching for over 30 years combined, and with that experience, we know exactly what NOT to do. We've failed plenty of times, and from all of those mistakes, we've learned how to carefully adjust and align our curriculum design to best:
meet students where they are
engage our students
teach basic AND challenging skills
align instruction with assessment
de-center texts and center inquiry
Our course is broken up into six modules designed to support new teachers and veteran teachers alike.
This is not the kind of course where you are left alone to do everything yourself. We're here with you all along!
Every module contains:
Amanda & Marie's curriculum map sample; we update our own map right alongside you as you work through each module.
Worksheets, handouts, guides, and templates
Instructional videos that provide real classroom experience suggestions and solutions
A hyperlinked map with examples and additional freebies to help along the way
...and make your curriculum planning dreams come true!
You'll get a delicious beverage (or two) and a snackie as you get comfortable at the computer. Your head will be buzzing with the ideas you already have for the class you've been working on and how you want to see it go differently in the future. You'll hit play on Module 1 and realize...
you will have finished watching all of the videos (you can pace them as you'd like), and you'll have the complete blueprint for your course makeover. Grabbing your materials that you taught this year, you'll download the CR unit planning templates and start inputting all of your plans. You'll rewatch a few videos here and there to line up with Amanda and Marie and click back to their "Progress Check" videos to help you keep moving forward confidently.
Teaching is hard enough.
Once you have fully Curriculum Rehabbed your course, not only will you be done with the Sunday Scaries, but you'll be done with that gut-punch feeling of decision fatigue.
Learn the WHY and the HOW-TO of backwards design once and for all and put it immediately into practice for your next semester with our help.
Sure, AI can generate some question ideas for you, but you'll learn here how to USE them from the start to the end of a unit and even across and entire school year.
Stop planning one day at a time and find a method that allows you to batch tasks and create systems that ensure student success.
Let's move students from the HOW to the SO WHAT in every single unit. We'll give you the tools to grow critical thinkers and wake up the zombies.
Our unit plans show you how to start creating a space that empowers students to read critically and actually read their novels at home.
Not only will you be planning big picture experiences, but you'll be supported by a 12-video library to help you hone your expertise lesson-by-lesson.
Over 800 teachers have come before you into Curriculum Rehab and transformed their teaching practices.
"I just wanted to report back that I started my new Curriculum Rehabbed Lord of the Flies unit. We started off exploring the EQ (Which form of power is stronger -- that gained through fear or that gained through respect?). OMG IT WAS SO GOOD!"
"This is hands down the best PD I've ever done. Amanda and Marie actually practice what they preach and genuinely care about teacher success. Everything I implemented from Curriculum Rehab has completely changed my teaching for the better.
"I completed Curriculum Rehab!! THiS is the guidance I've yearned for. Since this will be my second year of teaching, I was overwhelmed with the planning process. The pressure is most certainly on when the task of state testing is present, and I often felt incompetent because planning lessons became such a daunting process. I cannot explain how beneficial this course was. It was so well thought out and well executed. I plan to revisit it frequently! I wish someone had taken the time to thoroughly explain how to plan a rigorous lesson while creating a comfortable environment for students MUCH earlier, but I'm thankful to have this guide. Because of Curriculum Rehab, I have my first semester planned. I know what my focus is and I'm navigating each unit with my essential question, manifesto, and pillars in mind. I'd pay for the 4X over. Godspeed.
We get it. This is a big decision.
We sat down with Lannette after she finished TEACHING the course that she Curriculum Rehabbed. Here's how it went: