Quick look — SFUSD OER Curriculum
Recently San Francisco Unified announced their elementary OER curriculum was ready to be released to the world. As someone who has worked in the math OER space for a number of years, this was very exciting news indeed! Not only did they use the ‘correct’ license (CC BY), but the content itself looked amazing. This is not just a list of curricular tasks and outcomes. This is parent letters, video introductions, technology tasks that are
integrated with the core curriculum yet separate if needed. Google Drive folders chock full of everything a teacher needs to get going with standards-based rubrics, low-floor high ceiling tasks throughout and practice worksheets too for measuring mastery.
I took a look at quite a bit of the kindergarten and fifth grade tasks for comparison. The kindergarten because I’m least familiar with those kinds of tasks and because I have a preschooler so am always on the lookout for things to help get her ready for kindergarten. The Pre-K/TK curriculum is slated for release in 2019 so you can be sure I’ll be over that! The fifth grade because I’m quite familiar with those standards from my work at OpenEd.
