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Relevant for Today,
Ready for Tomorrow

CCR’s Framework Venn diagram of Knowledge, Skills, and Character overlapping, with Meta-Learning surrounding all three and the learner in the center. An arrow with purpose, agency, and identity moving through motivation points to the right.

At the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR), we have spent the past decade developing answers to the fundamental questions, “Why, What, and How should students learn for the age of AI?” We speak often about preparing learners for the “VUCA World,” a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. From paradigm-shifting technologies, to climate change, to social inequity and hyper-partisanship, today’s students face challenges never before seen in human history. 

A Four-Dimensional (4D) Education serves as our solution for equipping students with the necessary skills to navigate these challenges, promote personal well-being, engage meaningfully in society, and identify and design solutions to these complex problems. At the heart of a 4D Education is the belief that students must grow in four key dimensions (4D) – Knowledge, Skills, Character, and Meta-Learning – to thrive personally and contribute meaningfully to society. By modernizing the Knowledge Dimension with relevant content and concepts, and by integrating CCR’s Ten Cross-Cutting Competencies and 50 Subcompetencies across the Skill, Character, and Meta-Learning Dimensions, learners receive an education that is relevant for today and ready for tomorrow.

To bring this vision to life, we collaborate across the education ecosystem—with jurisdictions, schools, and organizations worldwide. With our 4D School partners leading novel change efforts and approaches, we equip classrooms with the research, software, resources, coaching, and collaborators to help shape the education that our students need.

Together, we:

  • develop modernized curricula and supporting professional development
  • reimagine learning standards
  • deliver data-driven lessons and assessments
  • infuse competencies (21st Century Skills/SEL) into all disciplines
  • foster identity, agency, & purpose (motivation) for all students

Our curricula, and supporting professional development, ensure students learn the knowledge and competencies for future workplace demands, boosting employability and preparing them for lifelong success.

4D Professional Development

 AI Literacy

CCR’s Teacher Training, Thinking with the Machines: AI Literacy for Educators, provides educators with the foundational knowledge and competencies needed to confidently integrate AI into teaching practices and guide students in navigating and leveraging this transformative technology.

Competencies

CCR’s Professional Development for Competencies helps teachers make their 4C’s/SEL/Portrait of a Graduate a classroom reality. Teachers will learn to master, modify and design lessons and units that integrate CCR’s 4D Framework competencies.

Computer Science

CCR’s Computer Science (CS) Teacher Training will efficiently and effectively train any teacher — from any discipline — to become a computer science educator. In as few as 40 hours, educators can learn the CS content, competencies, and strategies they’ll need to successfully lead their school’s CS program!

Modern Mathematics

CCR’s Modern Mathematics Teacher Training prepares educators to teach key topics often missing from traditional math curricula, including exponentials, probability, game theory, and complex systems—all integral parts of CCR’s customizable cutting-edge student math curriculum.

4D Classroom Curricula

CleanTech

CCR’s CleanTech unit immerses students in renewable energy, battery storage, and sustainable design. Easily integrated into any physics course, it explores the science and engineering behind clean energy. The unit ends with a project where students design solutions to meet specific local energy needs.

Biotechnology

CCR’s Biotechnology program is a two-year learning experience that moves students from foundational knowledge and technical skills to applying them in authentic contexts. Students develop skills and confidence to pursue industry certifications, entry-level biotechnology careers, and future college coursework.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Nanotechnology

CCR’s NanoTech unit explores the nanoscale world and its unique properties. Students investigate reaction rates, hydrophobicity, carbon allotropes, and nanoscale effects. The unit ends with a research project evaluating the benefits and risks of a real-world nanotech product.

Modern Mathematics

CCR’s Modern Mathematics Curriculum focuses on modernized context, essential content, core concepts, and the most relevant competencies. Curricula are available for six topics, including: Exponentials, Probability, Game Theory, and Complex Systems.