A truly effective district curriculum should serve as the ‘throbbing brain’ of district knowledge allowing all staff to learn from and leverage each other’s ideas

One of the challenges in many districts today is that while individual staff members are accomplishing great things in a vacuum, there is no central district knowledge base to leverage these individual pockets of success—BYOC is the solution to this problem. For instance, Independence Unified School District 446 was keen on transitioning from one set of curriculum standards to another, and also finding a way to alleviate the stress teachers were feeling in the face of having to rework their curriculum. After researching and evaluating available solutions, the district adopted BYOC. The integrated lesson-planning tool within BYOC allowed teachers to plan, design and publish lesson plans through an organized structure that automatically aligns lesson content with defined learning targets and the teaching staff utilized BYOC’s cross-district sharing tool. Today, BYOC provides a way for the districts to organize and align curriculum to standards that are constantly changing with ease and flexibility.

School Software Group’s innovation lab is the 500 districts in 27 states, increasing each day, that are currently using BYOC— driving the product enhancements and providing valuable feedback. The company has recently released an enhanced version of BYOC, BYOC+ that wraps the district curriculum with a Classroom Management and an Assessment Management system. “We are all about making school districts more efficient and better at what they are already doing by leveraging the true power of technology,” concludes Trina.