Curriculum Coherence Lives on the Teacher’s Desk

If you want to see how coherent a curriculum really is,

Don’t read the pacing guide.

Look at a teacher’s desk.

The stack of photocopies.

The half-finished anchor chart.

The browser with eight tabs open.

That’s where coherence, or the lack of it, shows itself.

Every teacher is quietly doing the work of alignment:

bridging gaps between standards, lessons, and the students in front of them.

Coherence isn’t about uniformity.

It’s about everything pointing in the same direction.

The best systems make that invisible work visible,

so the energy teachers spend connecting the dots

can finally go back to students.

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