At Eduplanet21, we recognize the unique challenges New Jersey school districts face in balancing state compliance with the need to create engaging, meaningful learning experiences. Navigating the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) process requires careful attention to both compliance and instructional quality, and we’re here to help you succeed on both fronts. By partnering with Eduplanet21, you’ll gain access to a curriculum design platform that not only simplifies the writing process but also ensures alignment with NJQSAC requirements. Our platform is specifically tailored to support districts through every step of the NJQSAC process, providing the tools needed for seamless curriculum development, ongoing compliance, and continuous improvement.
At the core of our platform is Eduplanet21’s Curriculum Planner, a structured and user-friendly tool that gives district leaders, teachers, and curriculum writers a clear and organized pathway for building, maintaining, and refining their curriculum. We know how critical it is for your curriculum to meet state standards, and Curriculum Planner ensures that all components—from content to assessments—can be aligned with NJQSAC criteria.
Eduplanet21 has created curriculum templates specifically designed for New Jersey, incorporating learning goals like Interdisciplinary Standards, State Mandates, and Career Ready Practices to guide the design process and provide a level of consistency across your school or district.
Additionally, Eduplanet21 helps organizations manage and identify their formative, summative, benchmark, and alternate assessments, making it easier to track and document compliance with NJQSAC requirements. The platform allows districts to easily run reports and generate documentation that can be shared with state compliance teams, giving you peace of mind that all required elements are in place and ready for review.
Eduplanet21 was developed in partnership with Jay McTighe, co-author of Understanding by Design (UbD), a framework that emphasizes the importance of starting with the end in mind. The platform uses a backwards design approach, encouraging districts to focus on the desired learning outcomes for students before planning assessments and instructional activities. This ensures that all curriculum elements are purposefully aligned with New Jersey Student Learning Standards, while also prioritizing student achievement and success.
Unit Planner, part of the Curriculum Planner suite, is where curriculum development comes to life. This tool allows your team to organize learning goals, assessments, and activities in a streamlined interface. To make the process even easier, Eduplanet21 pre-populates many fields based on the course you are designing, saving your team time and ensuring consistency.
One of the most common challenges districts face is keeping their curriculum aligned with evolving standards. With the introduction of New Jersey’s 2023 standards for ELA and Mathematics, many districts are now faced with the task of crosswalking existing documents to ensure compliance with the latest requirements. Eduplanet21 can support your district by updating your current curriculum documents with the most recent standards based on your previous work, minimizing the risk of error while maximizing efficiency. 💡
NJQSAC compliance involves much more than aligning to academic standards. Districts are also responsible for addressing curriculum mandates such as promoting Holocaust education and making connections to Asian American and Pacific Islander history, amongst others. At Eduplanet21, we’ve made it easy for districts to incorporate these mandates directly into their curriculum through pre-configured drop-down menus. By embedding these requirements into the curriculum writing process, district leaders can ensure that their schools are meeting state expectations without the need for additional administrative oversight.
Another one of the platform’s valuable features for ensuring compliance is the Unit Alignment Check. ✅ As you design learning goals, assessments, and learning plans, this feature provides color-coded feedback to indicate where there may be gaps in the curriculum. For example, if a learning goal is present but lacks an accompanying assessment, the platform will flag this discrepancy, allowing curriculum writers to address it before finalizing the unit. This feature is particularly useful for meeting NJQSAC standards, as it ensures that every learning goal is adequately taught and assessed, preventing any gaps in instruction.
Eduplanet21’s Curriculum Blueprint is a great add on for schools and districts that want to be transparent with students, parents, and the wider school community. The Curriculum Blueprint offers a high-level overview of what is being taught in each grade level and subject area, and how it aligns to New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS). Many districts also elect to share core resources (including textbooks, videos, novels, etc.) used in any particular course in an effort to maintain open communication with their communities. This level of transparency and collaboration is essential to achieving district-wide buy-in and support.
Eduplanet21 not only supports curriculum design but also offers a comprehensive suite of professional development tools to help educators implement their curriculum effectively. District leaders can create and deliver customized professional development modules through the platform, ensuring that teachers are equipped with the knowledge and strategies needed to deliver high-quality instruction.
By investing in continuous professional development, districts can ensure that their teachers are empowered to deliver engaging, student-centered learning experiences that drive academic success.
Eduplanet21 also offers pre-developed professional learning opportunities to save leaders the time and effort of creating their own!
Eduplanet21 is here to help you seamlessly design and refine high-quality curriculum that supports your students’ academic success while meeting NJQSAC requirements. By streamlining the administrative tasks associated with curriculum development and compliance, our platform gives districts the freedom to focus more on what matters most: delivering meaningful, effective, and engaging learning experiences.
Whether you’re building a new curriculum from scratch or updating existing documents to address the most recent student learning standards, Eduplanet21 provides the tools you need to make the process efficient, compliant, and learner-centered. Let us know when you’re ready to explore your own personalized demo and take the next step in transforming your district’s curriculum development process!