Implement curricula

The new curriculum launch is next Monday and Karen, the Head of Teaching, wants the lesson sequence sent for sign-off. Send the full lesson schedule to Karen and then to Tom the curriculum reviewer, in that order, after checking every module has learning objectives and allocated minutes.

Before I send the curriculum to Karen in Teaching, make it easy to approve: put the learning objective for each lesson in the first column, show total minutes per week at the top, flag lessons missing assessment criteria, and highlight any modules that deviate from the approved scope by more than one week.

I uploaded the unit plan and Tom flagged five lessons as missing assessment criteria. Karen expects a signed schedule by Friday so materials can be printed. I don’t know whether Tom wants new assessments added or just references to existing ones. Should I add brief formative tasks to those five lessons and send for provisional approval, or wait for Tom’s detailed guidance and risk missing the print deadline? What would reviewers typically accept to keep schedule intact?

We keep missing print and training deadlines because reviewers request content rewrites at the end of the cycle. It costs me time and frustrates teachers. Which habit reduces these late changes: require reviewers to annotate in the working document earlier, set a two-stage review with strict cutoffs, or change how we surface deviations so reviewers see impact sooner? Recommend the single policy change that most reduces rework in a small education team.