How Is School Curriculum Actually Decided? What Parents Need to Know

About this episode

The episode explores the hidden processes behind school curriculum decisions and what parents need to know.

What's Really Behind What Your Kids Learn at School For most parents, curriculum is invisible. Kids go to school, take classes, and that's that. But the decisions behind what your children learn, when it changes, and how teachers deliver it involve a process most families never see. In this episode of Mindshift, co-hosts Dr. Christopher Villarreal and Dr. Deb Anderson sit down with Dr. Shureen Seery, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning at Papillion La Vista Community Schools, to...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Christopher Villarreal, Dr. Deb Anderson

Guest: Dr. Shureen Seery

Topics covered

• school curriculum
• parenting
• education
• teaching methods
• invisible processes

Keywords

• school curriculum
• education
• parenting
• teaching
• learning process

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Papillion La Vista Community Schools

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