Curriculum Review

When you can see clearly, the path forward comes into focus.

Services Overview

 A strong curriculum is the foundation for effective instruction. Yet many classrooms struggle with variable lesson quality and a curriculum that never quite comes together. The gaps in rigor, coherence, or instruction are felt, but you aren’t sure where to start or how to fix them.

We’re here to help.

Actionable insights that transform a collection of ideas into a clear narrative.

Lumina reviews curriculum to identify strengths and gaps in coherence, rigor, and alignment to research-based instructional practices. We map connections between lessons as we clarify how knowledge and thinking build across the year. We identify ways your team can sharpen lessons, strengthen alignment, and elevate student outcomes. You’ll walk away with a clear roadmap for revising curriculum to foster joyful, lasting learning. 

Curriculum Review

Lumina provides curriculum reviews that help you envision the next version of your instruction. When helpful, we provide sample rewrites that help your team visualize the revisions and move forward with clarity.

We review curriculum for the following focus areas or can customize our review based on your needs.

Coherent Throughlines

Coherent Throughlines

Perhaps your curriculum has some standout lessons, but they are not yet part of a comprehensive, coherent learning progression.

Lumina helps you transform those bright spots into a connected, meaningful learning journey. We identify where throughlines can be strengthened, where knowledge-building can deepen, and where lessons can work smarter together. We identify gaps in the learning progression and provide recommendations to fill them.

Scope and Sequence

Scope and Sequence

Are you struggling to prioritize what to teach at each grade level? Does your team have some strong units or texts but are not yet sure how to organize them into a coherent whole?

Lumina helps you shape a purposeful scope and sequence that builds knowledge and richness of thought over time. We determine where pacing can tighten, where ideas need stronger bridges, and where lessons can be reorganized to form coherent learning progressions. We map curriculum against standards, identifying strengths and gaps, then recommending learning progressions.

Knowledge-Building Text Sets

Knowledge-Building Text Sets

Does your curriculum include anchor texts, but you need supporting readings to build students’ knowledge? Or are you looking to rebuild all of your text selections?

Lumina curates text sets that blend authentic texts with accessible additional readings, so each source contributes to building knowledge, strengthening vocabulary, and deepening learning. We identify where texts can be better sequenced, where a missing modality or viewpoint could unlock clarity, and where authentic, relevant sources can enrich the learning experience.

Text-Dependent Tasks

Text-Dependent Tasks

Perhaps your curriculum uses powerful texts, but the questions and instruction aren’t yet unlocking the depth they could.

Lumina helps you refresh lesson flow so each step builds toward richer, more text-based thinking. We pinpoint where questions can probe more deeply, where scaffolds can support without replacing thinking, where small shifts toward more research-based instruction can create a far more meaningful learning experience.

Clear, Relevant Instruction

Clear, Relevant Instruction

Are you hoping to build a toolkit of direct instruction strategies designed to make learning relevant and accessible?

Lumina identifies where small updates can make a big difference. We help strengthen direct instruction by modeling key processes, anticipating likely misconceptions, and creating a smoother release to independent work. We identify where clarity can open the door to complex work and where relevance can come from authentic, real-world connections that make the work matter.

Scaffolds to Enable Access

Scaffolds to Enable Access

Perhaps you notice some students engaging deeply, while others hover at the edges of the work. Your supports may be present, but they don’t yet give all learners a clear pathway into grade-level work.

Lumina identifies where vocabulary, language structures, and prerequisite knowledge need to be made explicit, where reading supports can increase independence, and where targeted accommodations can align instruction to students’ IEP goals. We help you design or strengthen scaffolds so multilingual learners, striving readers, and students on IEPs can access rigorous texts and tasks without diluting the cognitive demand.

Student Agency

Student Agency

Perhaps your materials cover the right content, but students still rely heavily on teacher direction.

Lumina helps you build purposeful moments of student autonomy that empower learners to ask questions, make connections, and take intellectual risks. We show where choice, discussion, and independent work can be woven into lessons in ways that strengthen engagement without sacrificing rigor.

Responsive Assessment

Responsive Assessment

Are you awash in assessments, yet none feel like they serve the purpose of checking what students are learning in this class? Is your curriculum moving too quickly to use data meaningfully?

Lumina helps you build a coherent assessment arc that includes formative checks that surface thinking early, giving teachers actionable information. We help create rich authentic performance tasks that showcase deeper understanding and summative assessments that align with the unit’s learning goals. We then pinpoint where pacing can loosen to allow responsive teaching based on the data that emerges before the moment passes.

Interested in curriculum review?

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