Regardless of the subject, a successful curriculum balances providing students with knowledge and skills (input) as well as challenging students to utilize and apply their knowledge and skills in the real world (output.) Relevant, interdisciplinary, and spiraling curriculums with hands-on lessons engage students and improve content retention. Students thrive when they see real-life applications for what they have learned and are exposed to related career pathways. This goal is achieved through projects, speakers, study trips, and outside opportunities layered onto and integrated into the core subject content. Varied teaching approaches provided in tandem give all learners an equal chance for growth and reinforce learning. Students respond positively with voice and choice, class routine, and positive discipline models that stress belonging, purpose, and community. The Addvelop team is ready to work with you on developing a tailored curriculum or lesson plans to meet your students' needs and your institution's goals.

The Addvelop team has extensive experience in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary curriculum development and teaching. Interdisciplinary teaching connects disciplines through common themes, bridging boundaries between frequently siloed subject content. Students demonstrate increased engagement and retention when they see a connection between the curriculum disciplines taught to them. In transdisciplinary teaching, subjects are blended to solve multifaceted problems. In this approach, real-world scenarios are utilized to challenge students to combine their skills and knowledge to tackle projects and issues. The Addvelop team can support institutions and educators in transforming their curriculums and building

excitement in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching.

Schools see increased engagement in students using project-based learning, an instructional method in which students learn content and skills through completing multifaceted projects representative of real-world problems. The Addvelop team works with clients on project-based learning instruction, challenges, opportunities, and results. Place-based learning is an instructional method of adapting and building curriculum, lessons, and study trips around a place's unique features and qualities. By featuring local features, businesses, people, and problems in their instruction, educators offer students an opportunity to build a greater connection with their human and natural community.

Networking is essential to discover opportunity, growth, and community for educators as well as for businesses. Connecting organizations and people with educational institutions offer benefits to students and to the community. The Addvelop team can help develop strategic partnerships that enrich your learning community.

The Addvelop team is versed in many teaching strategies and classroom procedures, including differentiation, pre-, mid-, and post-assessments, choice boards, station rotation, thinking routines, 5 E's lesson plans, rubrics, reflections, exit tickets, and more. Students report deeper engagement and feel a greater sense of purpose when concepts and skills are connected to real-world applications. Our team coaches schools and teachers on developing projects, hands-on lessons, and connections that showcase learning, how class concepts apply to real-world applications, and career readiness development.

Addvelop offers professional development sessions and speaking engagements tailored to your institution's needs. We inspire and educate using engagement practices, real-world applications, and examples in a fun and relatable manner.