Curriculum Title Reviewed: Safe Homes

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	NA
Which grades?	9-12	9-12	6-8/9-12
Subjects?	Health, PE, FACS	Health	Health/FCS
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	This section is fine.	Good goals. ELA: strengthen business letters to solicit donations.	Pretty good, but #2 is fairly vague and needs to be more specific. What types of safety precautions will students study other than smoke/co detectors?
Community needs	Needs are appropriate	Needs are real!	Good
Character virtue prominence	This section is good.	Excellent	The articulation of how caring and giving are addressed is basically identical, so why not be concise?
SL activities	They are detailed enough, but we suggest students do some sort of fundraiser for the detectors, rather than rely on donations from hardware stores.	Yes	Good
Reflection activities	Reflection activity needs work	Yeah, journaling! Where/when is performance?	Okay
Costs	$0 is all is donated.	Tools, way to carry ladder (truck/van)	Transportation could be expensive depending on how many homes students visit and equipment could also be expensive if businesses don’t donate.
Time needed	1 month	6 weeks	A lot of out-of-school time could make the project less doable for a lot of school districts.
Teacher preparation required	Contact RSVP and Office of the Aging. Teacher will give students Home Safety instruction and provide websites.	Permission/liability protection.	Manageable
Possible improvements	This project needs more depth.	Follow-up-create database to return to change batteries-2x/year	Technical-CO is carbon monoxide. CO2 (the abbreviation used in the lesson) is carbon dioxide.
Assessment items	Assessment items are fine. Rubric too general.	Good.	Questions are fairly simplistic and obvious for i-12.
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	Strong	Strong	Average
Addressing the character virtues	Strong	Strong	Average
Relevance to actual academic content	Average	Average-Strong	Average
Reflection activities	Average	Strong	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very strong	Very strong	Strongly
Citizenship	Not at all	Strongly	Somewhat
Fairness	Not at all		Somewhat
Giving	Very strong		Strongly
Respect	Somewhat		Somewhat
Responsibility	Somewhat		Strongly
Trustworthy	Somewhat		Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: School Community Coalition

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	Interdisciplinary unit at the start of the school year.	Whole class involvement.
Which grades?	6 – 8	6-8	6-8
Subjects?	Technology, Math, Social Studies, ELA (if literature is used to reinforce idea)	ELA, Math	Math/Language Arts
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Yes – appropriate goals and skills are evident.	This section is fine.	Okay, but again, fairly general
Community needs	Yes – the school as a community is highly recognized. They would add Respect and Responsibility as well. Each is relevant to what is already developed within the unit.	This section is good.	Legitimate need, but pretty lofty and unattainable
Character virtue prominence	Character virtues are a prominent part of the curriculum.	Section is good.	Very good
SL activities	Yes – very well written and organized.	Data survey must be very specific and data should be analyzed periodically. Problem areas specific to individual communities should be identified and addressed.	But how exactly will this coalition reduce threats to schools?
Reflection activities	(n/a)	A reflection activity should evaluate any behavior changes noted in school community.	Might be digging for something that’s not there to expect students to feel threatened at school
Costs	None – getting contributions is part of the project.	$0-$500 depending on funds.	Could be manageable-need more specifics to determine.
Time needed	10 – 15 weeks	Year long	Sounds pretty doable
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)	Teacher will organize and facilitate project. Teacher will make a list of contacts and give students background information.	Probably OK
Possible improvements	(n/a)	See reflection activity above; see Service Learning activities.	The description is very vague and needs to be more specific. Exactly what the coalition will do is unclear and how it will reduce threats to schools is never really established.
Assessment items	Yes – there is academic relevance and assessment items are challenging and stimulating.	Rubric too general. Assessment is fine.	Okay
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	(n/a)	Average-Strong	Weak-Average
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)	Strong	Average
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)	Average-Strong	Weak-Average
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Average-Strong	Weak
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very strong.	Very strong.	Somewhat
Citizenship	Very strong.	Very strong.	Strongly
Fairness	Very strong.	Very strong.	Somewhat
Giving	Not at all.	Not at all.	Somewhat
Respect	Strongly.	Somewhat.	Somewhat
Responsibility	Strongly.	Somewhat.	Somewhat
Trustworthy	Not at all.	Somewhat.	Not at all

Curriculum Title Reviewed: School Community Stewardship

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	This should be implemented by a self-contained classroom or by a class with block scheduling.	As part of the science curriculum. A great tie-in would be self-esteem
Which grades?	6-12	9-12	9-12
Subjects?	Science, Health, FACS, ELA	Science	Science
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	This section is good.	Extremely appropriate. Great design from overall view into individual action,	Good
Community needs	Needs are addressed.	Community need kind of skirted. School community need well addressed and relevant.	Good unless in an area where school grounds are maintained by professional crew-could be offensive to current groundskeepers
Character virtue prominence	This section is fine.	Prominent, but need to be frequently highlighted	Good
SL activities	This section is fine.	Activities are easily replicated. Additional information not needed.	Good-I like the stewardship club idea
Reflection activities	Activities are fair. Students should share their journals in “spinning circles or carousel brainstorming” situation.	Appropriate and specific. Journaling is a great idea and aids in great reflection on character virtues.	Sort of boring activities-very ordinary. Perhaps they could have an open panel discussion with the community for oral and perhaps they could draft an essay on uses they foresee for the area.
Costs	$150-$1000	BBQ costs and costs associated with decided upon project	If local businesses contribute, should be manageable
Time needed	Year long	Year long project with year-to-year commitment	Good, full-year project
Teacher preparation required	Teacher will instruct and get administrative approval for project.	Community outreach and in kind or grant experience a plus	A lot of pre-approval would have to go into this project.
Possible improvements	Project is good as is written.	Perhaps involve younger students and let the older students do a teach-back	Just better reflection activities.
Assessment items	Rubric is too general. Open ended question #2 appears contrived.	Relevant and appropriate. Real learning to take place through reflection activities	Sort of simplistic questions (multiple choice)
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience	Moderately experienced	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Moderately experience	Moderately experienced	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	Average – Strong	Average-Strong	Average
Addressing the character virtues	Strong	Average	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	Strong	Average	Average-Strong
Reflection activities	Average – Strong	Average-Strong	Weak-Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very Strong	Strongly	Strongly
Citizenship	Somewhat	Strongly	Strongly
Fairness	Not at all	Not at all	Not at all
Giving	Very Strong	Somewhat	Strongly
Respect	Very Strong	Strongly	Strongly
Responsibility	Very Strong	Strongly	Strongly
Trustworthy	Not at all	Somewhat	Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Serving with Character (formerly R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Plays a Part in History)

		Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	N/A		In conjunction with an ELA unit on interviewing/ quotes/ etc.	Rework it and use with 12^th grade PIG
Which grades?	3 – 6		4^th or 5^th	4-6 or 12 (PIG)
Subjects?	Language Arts, Social Studies		ELA/ Social Studies	SS, ELA
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Great – to build appreciation of “history” and keep students thinking they could share a fact a day about their person.		Possibly a time line… students could document important historical events within the community and/or accomplishments of the senior citizens on it.	SS learning goals too vague. ELA: The cooperative writing of a “well-written” document is good.
Community needs	Church groups – my former Catholic School had an “Over 50 Club”		Excellent!	Too vague. What age adults do we include? A 21 year old in the rescue squad or VFD? Also, contributions to what? The arts, commerce, environmental preservation, fraternal orders, citizenship, etc. Is this local history or just the people who happen to be convenient interview subjects? More partners: Lions Club, League of Women Voters, local land preservation/conservancy groups, volunteer 1^st responders, farmers, town planning board members.
Character virtue prominence	Strong.		Will these activities raise their level of respect for senior citizens? They need to relate it back to themselves somehow – maybe ask the question… where will you somehow – maybe ask the question… where will you be in 20 years? What will you have accomplished?	Limited. This project lacks focus.
SL activities	Yes!		Could be replicated given the information provided are illustrations going to be included, or just the written piece.	No. Clarify goals.
Reflection activities	(n/a)		(n/a)	1. Weak. Back it up to brainstorm what respect is/isn’t. 2. Ditto: Citizenship – Where do the students get background?
Costs	N/A		Minimal cost with the exception of the cost of bringing the partnerships together.	Lots of transportation – editing session for interviewers/-ees. Production of multiple documents – Binders, etc.
Time needed	Great		The only problem I foresee is that if the project spans an entire semester, you may run into problems with senior citizens going south for the winter.	Semester seems right.
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)		(n/a)	Students will need background instruction and help researching to build a list of adult organizations.
Possible improvements	(n/a)		(n/a)	This project does not move the students from a passive towards an active definition of citizen. Citizen means more than merely voting or not littering.
Assessment items	Excellent!		Good as is.	Appropriate
Experience needed in CE				Little or no experience
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience.		Little or no experience.	Little or no experience
Rate the project in the following areas
Doability	(n/a)		(n/a)	Average
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)		(n/a)	Weak - Average
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)		(n/a)	Weak - Average
Reflection activities	(n/a)		(n/a)	Weak - Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very strong.		Strongly.	Not at all
citizenship	Very strong.		Very strong.	Somewhat
Fairness	Strongly.		Not at all.	Not at all
Giving	Very strong.		Somewhat.	Not at all
Respect	Very strong.		Strongly.	Strongly
Responsibility	Strongly.		Strongly.	Somewhat
Trustworthy	Very strong.		Not at all.	Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Storm Water Management

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	As a science-based research project.
Which grades?	9-12	9-12	9-12
Subjects?	Science, Technology	Technology (MST)	Sciences and Technology
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Learning goals and academic skill appropriate, in conjunction with field data journaling – students could express their feelings about a needed job not done.	More direct learning about storm water management	Is the third goal a goal? Unclear.
Community needs	Highly relevant – perhaps the mayor or governor – give kids a lesson about things being mandated with no funding.	Yes! (relevant)	Good. Where will schools get the software/hardware required for this project? Will a community partner donate or do schools already have it? To whom will students present their data?
Character virtue prominence	Virtues are present, but cold easily get lost if teacher does not specify.	Excellent	Okay
SL activities	Detailed enough for general ideas. Teachers would need the GPS Science background.	Yes.	Again, to whom will students present their data and how will it result in any actual changes?
Reflection activities	Appropriate and specific – need to have each virtue specified for each activity to keep students on track.	1 + 2 need direct reflection on virtues	Perhaps articulate more clearly how the specific virtues connect to the particular reflection activities to which they are linked.
Costs	Possibly bus costs – depending where students choose site and if they go to outside meetings during the school day.	Access to GPS/GIS training/equipment	The software/equipment could be very expensive.
Time needed	Semester long assignment.	½ year	Year-long definitely. This is a big project with lots of fingers, so it might be pretty difficult.
Teacher preparation required	Community ties, GPS knowledge.	GIS/GPS training	There would have to be an interdisciplinary partnership among several teachers.
Possible improvements	Incorporate character virtues more concretely into reflection plans.	Add link to actual resources	Summary is awkwardly written and needs some grammatical repairs.
Assessment items	Relevant and appropriate. Easy to measure.	Ask stormwater questions too.	There is a pretty heavy emphasis on science/technology questions and little on ELA, but otherwise good questions.
Experience needed in CE	Moderately experienced	Moderately experienced	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Moderately experienced	Very experienced	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	Average-Strong	Average	Average
Addressing the character virtues	Average-Strong	Strong	Average
Relevance to actual academic content	Average-Strong	Strong	Average
Reflection activities	Average	Average	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Somewhat	Very strong	Somewhat
Citizenship	Somewhat	Very strong	Strongly
Fairness	Not at all	Not at all	Not at all
Giving	Somewhat	Somewhat	Somewhat
Respect	Somewhat	Somewhat	Somewhat
Responsibility	Somewhat	Very Strong	Strongly
Trustworthy	Somewhat	Very strong	Somewhat

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Student Senior Service Connection

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	Family Consumer Science course would be the best place for this unit.	This should be used in a Connections, Service Learning group, club or self-contained class.	As a method of teaching business skills, letter writing, journalism, publicity. Heavy concentration on ELA or Business.
Which grades?	6 – 8	7-12	7-12
Subjects?	Family Consumer Science	ELA, Tech Ed, FACS	English, Business, Computers (Business computer application)
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	Goals and skills are appropriate.	This section is fine.	They would be more appropriate for an older group of students. I feel a higher level of professionality would be gained (a greater level of depth a teacher could go into the project) by using the project at a HS level)
Community needs	Community needs are addressed.	This section is good.	Need weak – it needs to illustrate how the seniors are in need rather than what the solution is. Community partners good – explanation in first planning activity very specific and helpful.
Character virtue prominence	Character virtues are …., but are not clearly visible within the unit. The unit is more research and data based. It’s also more student centered.	This section is fine. Responsibility should be added, along with trustworthy.	Have great potential, especially in the reflection activities. Actual objectives a bit weak, especially respect – it is written in a way that appears a bit pitying.
SL activities	Yes, they are detailed enough to be repeated.	Activities are fine; some need to be slightly altered.	Yes, given enough information for a teacher to replicate in his/her class.
Reflection activities	(n/a)	These activities are very good.	Yes, very specific and appropriate – using reflections as publicity a great idea and way to get positive student feedback into the community.
Costs	None.	$0-$150	Could prove to be pricey-how will students get to the seniors’ houses if in a large rural area? Printing costs, distribution (stamps, etc.)
Time needed	15 – 20 weeks maximum for instruction services with seniors could be yearlong.	Year long.	I do not feel 1 hour a month is enough time to make a genuine connection to the seniors-3 to 4 hours seems more reasonable.
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)	Teacher will facilitate and implement project.	A well thought out plan to enable easy facilitation-community contacts, issues of senior citizens, job duties students will need to fulfill.
Possible improvements	(n/a)	For safety of students, seniors should be selected through a referral process. Advertising on television may also be unsafe for the students.	Clarify community partners-PTSO, senior citizen groups (could mention ones in all areas-office for the aging, AARP, etc). Also, greater detail on actual service activities-specifically how they will link to original academic goals would be helpful.
Assessment items	Academic relevance is appropriate for grades 6 – 8.	Rubric is too general. Assessment is fine.	Should be very easy to fill out for any student working on business skills.
Experience needed in CE	Moderately experienced.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Moderately experienced.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	(n/a)	Average	Average (would be very time consuming, but worthwhile to a committee teacher)
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)	Strong	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)	Strong	Average-Strong
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Average-Strong	Strong
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Very strong.	Very strong.	Very strong
Citizenship	Not at all.	Very strong.	Not at all
Fairness	Not at all.	Somewhat.	Not at all
Giving	Very strong.	Very strong.	Strongly
Respect	Strongly.	Very strong.	Strongly
Responsibility	Somewhat.	Very strong.	Somewhat
Trustworthy	Somewhat.	Very strong.	Not at all

Curriculum Title Reviewed: Supporting Our Service Persons (S.O.S)

	Reviewer 1	Reviewer 2	Reviewer 3
How used in a classrm?	As a strong reminder during Veteran’s Day of the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy.	Whole class or small groups.	To teach letter writing and interview skills. Also could be used as a proactive way to address “war” with young students. Great current event link.
Which grades?	3 – 5	3-8	k-6 (could be adapted for younger students).
Subjects?	Social Studies, Language Arts	ELA, SS	Writing, Reading, SS, Art
Appropriateness, possibility to strengthen: Learning Goals/Academic subjects	They are excellent.	This section is fine.	Yes, they are appropriate. Academic goal #2 is stretching from SS curriculum a bit (but if framed correctly could be a good stretch).
Community needs	Very relevant.	This section is satisfactory.	Very relevant and, as above, a great connection to current conditions. Good listing of partners.
Character virtue prominence	Respect, civic virtue, and citizenship are covered to a very great extent.	They need to add caring and giving since they are delivering care packages and writing letters to service persons.	Overall, it seems like the writers are passionate about the subject-with a consistent emphasis, virtues could be very prominent. Seem to be intertwined well.
SL activities	Yes ~ this service learning project has been well thought out!	This section is fine.	Yes, more detail on planning and service activities would be helpful-how are the community partners involved (the ones in addition to the interviewees)? Also, collection project could easily fall into community service.
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Activities are good.	Appropriate-the discussion could be tricky, though, depending upon how well the students respond to the project.
Costs	Unsure.	$0-$250	Minimal, very feasible-seems like CBOs could contribute much of the needed items, if not through the community drives.
Time needed	Time allotment (year long) is satisfactory.	Year long	More activities are needed to keep momentum for a full year.
Teacher preparation required	(n/a)	Teacher will make veteran contacts, provide appropriate instruction, plan breakfast and facilitate and implement project.	Sensitivity to issues of war (what if a parent is a conscientious objector? What if students are fearful of war? What if parents and teachers see it as an us vs. them situation?
Possible improvements	(n/a)	Students should not interview veterans at a breakfast which they are being honored. Students should interview veterans prior to the breakfast and students should share their power point at this time.	More detail would be helpful to illustrate how the project can help service persons overseas and veterans.
Assessment items	Excellent.	Assessment is fine. Rubric is too general.	Decent-multiple choice seems kind of sporadic (not questions that would be asked as a group otherwise).
Experience needed in CE	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Moderately experienced
Experience needed in SL	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience.	Little or no experience
Rate the project in the following areas:
Doability	(n/a)	Strong	Average-Strong
Addressing the character virtues	(n/a)	Strong	Average-Strong
Relevance to actual academic content	(n/a)	Strong	Average-Strong
Reflection activities	(n/a)	Strong	Average
How strongly are each of the character virtues addressed by this project….
Caring	Strongly.	Very strong.	Somewhat
Citizenship	Very Strong.	Very strong.	Strongly
Fairness	Strongly.	Somewhat.	Not at all
Giving	Strongly.	Very strong.	Somewhat
Respect	Very Strong.	Very strong.	Very strong
Responsibility	Strongly.	Strongly.	Somewhat
Trustworthy	Strongly.	Not at all.	Not at all