Think Like a Subject Matter Expert: From Standards to Scope – Building a Math Curriculum Backbone

Think Like a Subject Matter Expert™ is Course 1 of 3 (plus one bonus course) in the Math Curriculum Developer Pathway, designed for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, instructional specialists, and curriculum supervisors who are new to writing curriculum.

Great teaching and subject matter expertise are different skills, and educators are routinely promoted into curriculum work without ever being taught to analyze standards, evaluate rigor, or design a scope and sequence. This course closes that gap and addresses a second, related problem: most curriculum work happens as a pile of disconnected documents, which pushes teachers toward simply following the textbook page by page.