This page links to web projects and problem based curricular units that provide guiding questions, large ideas, and active methods--diverse and intellectually active forms of instruction--to bring the Frameworks* to life. Teachers who realize that the Frameworks have no curricular structure see how much it distorts their curriculum when they try to reshape it to fit the Frameworks. There is no shape to this muddle of isolated facts, concepts, theories and viewpoints, often set at cross-purposes to each other.

Rather the Frameworks must be adapted to fit meaningful curriculum and authentic, essential questions. "Teaching to the Test," the random samples of questions based on the jumble of Frameworks, does NOT mean coverage and drill of terminology and facts. It means encountering terms and facts in intellectually and emotionally provocative learning. Most Frameworks are by-products of learning and understanding, not the object of learning.

Coverage does NOT maximize scores. The tax on memory, the lack of understanding and organization, all make coverage largely a waste of time. Bring the Frameworks to LIFE--don't strangle learning by subjugating life to a hodgepodge of Frameworks.