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LearnZillion moved to a “curriculum-as-a-service” model, where the professional development is a blended model that supports using the curricular materials well. It can be in-person and online, but “instead of teaching about the philosophy of productive struggle and task-based instruction and the pedagogical moves that go with it, in essence all those things are embedded,” Westendorf said.

Rather than thinking of curriculum as a physical thing, Evergreen is flipping the script by using curricular resources as a tool that works with their technological investments to better meet the needs of their teachers and students, and ensures coherent, quality instruction across their district.

Among the content providers working with D2L on Lessons is LearnZillion and the Florida Virtual School, which both produce course materials. According to Chapman, most teachers who use Brightspace are already using other tools such as YouTube, Google Classroom, LearnZillion and Microsoft Office 365 for Education, “and we want them to”.

The project will deliver academic content through LearnZillion’s curriculum platform, which the company describes as “curriculum-as-a-service,” a cloud-based system that allows educators to obtain, reorder, and alter lessons. That platform, which combines proprietary and openly licensed content, is already being sold to American school districts.

Because no full English language arts programs received a Tier 1 rating, teacher leaders joined with LDOE staff members and Common Core experts at LearnZillion to produce a complete ELA curriculum, which also provided the opportunity to prioritize themes and texts that reflect Louisiana’s culture.

The tool will be based on the LearnZillion platform. In addition to lesson plans that can be accessed offline, teachers will have access to digital resources, quizzes and reports.

The guidebooks, which are freely available to anyone in Louisiana and beyond, live on a cloud-based platform and come with ready-made slide shows, thanks to the state’s partnership with LearnZillion, a website with common-core-aligned resources created by teachers.

Recent state test results show signs it may be helping improve student outcomes, though some teachers say they need more help differentiating the units for students of all needs. The curriculum, hosted on the LearnZillion cloud-based platform, is free and open for any school across the country to use.

We’re changing curriculum from a physical, static, mostly paper-based product that school districts buy and own, to curriculum as a cloud-based service.

This year, as a math facilitator to the Syracuse City School District in New York through LearnZillion, I help to show and train others in how to use digital resources. In my own classroom, they have helped me easily support each student in an interactive way, and I love helping others to do the same.

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One opportunity that has had a tremendous impact on my practice has been my work with the LearnZillion Dream Team. Strengthening my understanding of the Common Core Standards and curriculum has led to more thoughtful lesson planning and fine tuning.

Seeing these teachers come together was incredible. When you think about it, teachers don’t often get a chance to really work together. This is a hard job with very little support. Simply giving teachers the chance to work collaboratively created amazing results.

As students’ state math test scores show declines in the middle school grades, teachers are coming up with creative ways to reach more students.