The Value of Curriculum Crosswalk
Ensuring fidelity to your curriculum through:
*Aligning curriculum to school culture and community
*Providing organized and clear lessons that are easily accessible through shared servers
*Creating curriculum road maps, unit breakdowns, and vertical articulation
*Coaching and supporting teachers through lesson planning, support, and modeling (Distance and In-Person Available)
*Remote Teaching and tutoring
6 years teaching in an urban, diverse school and 2 years teaching abroad.
Licensed in K-12 English Education and as a Reading Specialist
MA in Reading and Literacy and BS double major in English and Education with a coaching concentration.
I believe in maintaining a positive mindset, and creating partnerships with a purpose. When you work with me, you should expect a collaboration with transparency and consistency. Want to learn more? Contact me today for an initial consultation on what I can do to assist you and your school community.
Curriculum Developer
Curriculum Options:
English Language Arts
Math
Science/Social Studies
SPED curriculum (English Language Arts/Math)
Intervention curriculum (English Language Arts/Math)
Homeschool curriculums
ACT/SAT test prep curriculum
What’s Included for Each Curriculum:
1) Timeline of Completion
2) Communication among administration and faculty members
3) Updating of Curriculum as needed
Literacy and Guidance Coach
Options:
Weekly check-in support with teachers
Hybrid instructional handbooks
Vertical articulation including common terminology and norms
Mentoring new teachers
Creating engaging virtual classrooms
Virtual resources support
Shifting in person curriculum to virtual curriculum
Consulting and Training Options:
Aligning grade level curriculum to standards
Finding and fixing the “holes” within a curriculum
Curriculum pacing guide
Curriculum crosswalk
Digitalizing curriculums on shared drives
Coaching (remotely) with teachers to help form lessons/units that align with their standards
Intervention curriculums to align with Benchmark Assessments
Benchmark assessments (creating and revising)
Integrating special ed curriculums with regular ed curriculums
Mentoring new teachers on best practices with the curriculum
Scheduling for teachers and/or students to fit the needs of each curriculum
Test prep integration (SAT/ACT)
Distance teaching and tutoring
Hybrid training
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Curriculum in Action:
In terms of the pacing in the unit, this video was taken during the second week of this school year. The 8th graders had just finished reading chapter 5 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. The lesson spanned over a 90 minute block. During the lesson, the students worked on correctly using textual evidence to support their claim, understanding allusions in literature, and finding the theme of the “Nothing Gold Can Stay” poem by Robert Frost. I am happy to provide supplemental documents to the lesson, if needed. The video also has a few testimonies from students and a teacher on what it is like to be taught by Mrs. Goral and what it is like to work with me. I hope that this video helps to give you a picture of how my classroom is run and how I develop relationships with my colleagues.
TESTIMONIALS
"Working with Katie Goral allowed me to learn the skills and tools needed to build curriculums for my classes for the rest of my career. As a first year Spanish teacher I was having trouble successfully planning the path in which I wanted to teach my students. With her help I was able to literally build a curriculum for 3 grades for the entire 2020-2021 school year! She made the building process so easy I am now confident that I will be able to do the same no matter what grade level I teach.
She also successfully prepared me for a triumphant Praxis score. With English as a second language, she helped me learn the tricks needed to pass a Praxis exam with flying colors and I am now ready to apply the same strategies taught by her to other exams I am required to take.
Having Katie as a mentor and as a tutor not only helped me with my professional development, but she also helped me develop even more the most important value a human being should always have. The value of confidence."
Daniela Bentacourt, LCCS, 6-8th Spanish Teacher