On-going Curriculum Support
Keith offers ongoing curriculum support for campuses as they launch, continue, and revise their residential or divisional curriculum. Keith provides this support with monthly campus video calls and group video calls. This ongoing support is exclusively available to campuses Keith has worked with directly to launch their curriculum.
“In my department, I lead the charge of continually collaborating, developing, assessing, and training on our Residential Curriculum. Knowing that in addition to have Keith’s expertise and support every month, but also a cohort of other schools and colleagues available for regular consultation and resource sharing has been invaluable. Our training, our curriculum, and my confidence in leading this for our department have all improved as a result of this relationship!”
Assistant Director for Residential Learning Initiatives, UMass Amherst
Benefits of the Campus Calls
- Technical assistance
- Helpful guidance and objective input on strategies and processes
- Structured accountability and sustained momentum
- Tips and strategies for moving forward from the micro to the macro
- Affirming progress and innovative work
- Access to approaches and tools from many different campuses
Benefits of the Group Calls
- Idea sharing and generation
- Normalizing shared challenges
- Building relationships, connections, and networking
- Helpful getting back on track quickly rather than after going down the wrong path
- Keith’s experience working with more than 90 different campuses and their curricular approach
Topics Discussed
- Educational plan development by functional area
- Marketing, branding, and communicating
- Document review/feedback
- Helping the outcomes choose the strategies
- Developmental sequencing
- Student staff selection and training
- Pro-staff selection and training
- Integrating operations: desk, assignments, billing, facilities, security, etc.
- Assessment strategies
- Staff meetings, staffing, organizational structure
- Process management/Air traffic control
- Integrating crisis management/students of concern
- LLCs & faculty partnerships
"These calls have been very helpful! Personally, I really appreciate the tips and strategies. I was able to directly take the conversation related to sequencing/mapping and use that in our committee. (After I realized how off our sequencing was)! The benefit of having them with Keith is that you have a wealth of knowledge because you work with so many campuses and have tangible experience and examples."
Benefits for Campuses in On-Going Implementation
- Developing a learning organization
- Not letting your curriculum get in the way of your curricular approach
- Considering broadening to a divisional approach
- Coaching around navigating the political landscape for buy-in and support
- Comprehensive assessment
- Annual reviews – internal and external
- Revision, renewal, and restart processes
- Mapping and gap analysis
"It is a great way to have continual touch points with the curriculum. When an institution attends an ICA or has a consultant come in and lead a retreat, afterward the institution is then left to their own devices. The coaching has been a really great way to ask questions as we continue to develop and refine our curriculum. We can really dig into a process, such as selection, that sometimes gets lost in an ICA or retreat. "
Tips for Campus Calls
The campus calls are a chance for each campus to determine the topic and the participants that would be most helpful in advancing their curriculum. These are the suggestions for campuses that past participants had based on their experiences.
- Schedule out the topics/focus and participants a semester at a time
- More planning and accountability makes this more helpful
- Invite different people to different calls based on topic/agenda
- Key to have the point person on each call but rotate the participants based on the focus
Group Video Calls
The group calls have a predetermined topic and are a chance to connect with others doing a curricular approach and crowdsource innovative solutions, strategies, and approaches. The group calls occur once a month with a predetermined topic from those generated by the participating schools. These calls are recorded and available to share with your teams. These were the topics the campuses that participated in 2021-22 identified for the focus of their group calls.
- Getting Started
- Training, Opening, Move-in, Orientation, and more
- ICA and Sequencing
- Selection and Training for Student and Professional Staff
- Creating Something New
- Looking forward to the end of the year.
- Assessment
- Renew and Refresh
- Strategy-Level Learning Outcomes
"Working with you has been extremely helpful in helping us organize our thoughts, and ideas, and bringing them to life. I love being in contact and connecting with a larger group of other institutions who are also working on curriculums, sharing the challenges, as well as the benefits of adopting a curricular approach. In addition, the ongoing support has helped our department be consistent in our growth, and keep us on track."
Smith College
"Being able to get out of the context of our university context and thinking patterns through both the group and individual sessions is so incredibly helpful for our creativity and ability to develop our curriculum. "
University of Texas
Value
The cost for this year of support is $3,000 for a year of individualized, campus-specific, and collective support for your curricular approach. Each of the past three years we have had about a dozen campuses participate. You can read some of their testimonials on this page.
Credentials
Keith has been one of the leaders in developing curricular approaches to learning beyond the classroom in higher education. He has facilitated or co-facilitated retreats with more than 90 campuses to develop their curricular approach.
He is co-author of this book on the curricular approach.
He regularly serves as a faculty member for ACPA’s Institute on the Curricular Approach (formerly Residential Curriculum Institute). He chaired the Institute in 2009 and co-chaired in 2018 & 2019.
He is the co-author of this article on designing, implementing, and assessing curricular approaches.
