Developing Culturally Expansive Curriculum
Curriculum should reflect diverse, lived experiences – serving as both a window and a mirror for our students.
Let’s Collaborate
Working in the educational field for twenty years, nine of which as a classroom teacher, Monique has deep experience developing culturally expansive curriculum, including spearheading a Grades K-8 Racial Literacy Curriculum and developing a recently released Grades K-6 curriculum for The Colors We Share, a partnership with Angélica Dass and Aperture. See the video below, where Monique joined Angélica, Denise Wolff, and Sarah Meister to discuss this curriculum as part of Aperture’s PhotoBook Club.
As a consultant for Authentic Education, Monique served as a Subject Matter Expert, joining a team of educators and scholars in writing the first anti-racist, Grades K-12 Social Studies State Standards in the United States. (Watch an NBC news segment here to see how teachers in Washington D.C. are implementing the standards.) She continues to lead webinars and in-person keynotes and curricular development sessions that outline culturally expansive ways to tell the human story. Much of her collaboration with schools focuses on co-developing a mission-centered vision to use as a guide when revising units and lessons –– for social studies, history, and STEAM courses –– to ensure that curricular content and teaching practices are both academically rigorous and representative and responsive to the student population each school community serves.
One of Monique’s favorite things in the world is working with educators to intentionally design impactful, standards-based, culturally expansive and responsive curriculum.
