Empowering Educators with Curriculum

Join us to explore the ways in which curriculum resources can empower teachers to create relevant and responsive lessons on a variety of topics — especially those that require co-learning and a different distribution of expertise.

Contact Tracey or Guylaine to find out more.

Curriculum resources for co-learning

In 2025-2026 the AlphaPlus Community of Practice is looking at at curriculum resources that allow instructors to

Build a series of lessons that flow together.
Create differentiated learning opportunities.
Cover a topic comprehensively.

Two series of workshops planned

We are facilitating 2 series of online workshops (June 2025 and February 2026) for our group to

engage with peers in rich conversations about the practice of teaching
explore and evaluate examples of curricula that use a blended-learning approach to understanding communication and collaboration in a digitally connected world

Curriculum criteria

These resources include teacher-facing guides, instructions, objectives and/or teaching tips and support instructors to:

Cover a topic comprehensively.
Build a series of lessons that flow together.
Co-learn rather than feel pressure to be the expert.

Three hats

We have the opportunity to wear three hats – learner, teacher and designer – to examine the components of a curriculum and build a framework for curriculum and resource evaluation.

As learners, we experience lessons on a topic of interest to us in our work or daily lives.
As planners and facilitators, we reflect on the learner experience in each lesson and how to apply what we have experienced to our own practice.
As instructional designers, we evaluate how the teacher-facing materials support our work.

Insights

Building learning communities for adult literacy educators: Meet Tracey Mollins

22 May 2025

Series 1: Information Literacy

Our topic for the spring workshops is information literacy. We will focus on curriculum resources designed to help teachers and learners sift through the abundance of information that comes at us each day to curate our experience and learn how to identify information we can trust.

Essential skills

An essential 21st century skill is learning how to distinguish information that is reliable from disinformation, misinformation and fake news. We all struggle with this at times. Information literacy requires an understanding of the media landscape and knowledge about how to use our critical thinking skills in this landscape. It is very difficult for us to keep up-to-date as this landscape shifts and evolves.

Curriculum resources

Wouldn’t it be great if there were resources that meet the needs of the people who want to learn about information literacy AND teachers who want to develop instructional approaches to engaging learners in conversations about information literacy?

We did some research into online curriculum resources that meet both those needs.

We took a look at curriculum resources that:

Enhance our knowledge of how news and information is created and disseminated.
Expand our capacity to evaluate information and information sources.

What happened

You can find links to the slide decks, resources we shared and summaries of the discussions we had on the Wayfinders site or in this document.

Guides for exploring lessons and building curriculum

When we completed the series, we created these guides for using the resources. The guides include the slide decks and worksheets you can use with learners.

Exploring lessons: MediaSmarts

How to Guide