curriculum development

Two hands reaching over a plate of food, which appears to be a traditional Indian dish with roti and curry, on a red table.

Small hands reached for fresh injera and shiro wat, shared with a class of third graders as we learned about Ethiopan food culture from a mother and daughter.

  • Curriculum development is the process of identifying your learning goals, developing materials to contribute to the new identified goals, and supporting you in the process of delivering those materials. If you are looking for support for your own facilitation and/or educational delivery, particularly for learnings of PreK-12 or adult political education, this offering might be for you. 

    In this offering, I work to help you identify the learning goals and work creatively to develop new, adaptive, and/or supplemental learning plans and materials in order to meet your goals. Over the past fifteen years, I have had the opportunity to develop culturally-sustaining materials for various circumstances. Some of those are: curricula oriented towards K-4 learners based in a community garden (preview HERE), for adult learners developing cooperative enterprises, for multi-lingual adult learners eager to grow their own food with different cultural connections to land.

    • Working with parent(s) in home-school contexts

    • Working with local organizations offering field trips to learners, or looking to expand their educational offerings 

    • Developing curriculum for social movement organizations focused on adult political education 

    • Curriculum for subject areas covering expansive histories which include connection to place, people, and cultures across time, histories of social movements, food systems and culinary arts, STEAM land-based learning, regenerative economics

    • Identifying your learning goals, which are not being met with current curriculum offerings

    • Developing curriculum materials based on identified goals, with the ability to align it to K-12 conventional and unconventional standards if desired 

    • Adapting curriculum you are inspired by to a specific place in Turtle Island 

    • Adapting curriculum by age and other markers of identity and ability 

    • Connecting you to other supporting resources 

  • "Lathram brings a rare combination of methodical rigor and heart to her work — from curriculum development and communications to facilitation — consistently producing work that is detail-oriented, inclusive, and deeply reflective of the communities being served. "

    —Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, Co-Director of Southeast Center for Cooperative Development