Navigation North

CA History Educators have long known that the traditional history materials and content provided to classrooms via adopted textbooks don't adequately address the contributions of all communities that make up the Golden State's diverse history. Navigation North created a scalable OER assembly and distribution platform to help the CA Historical Society and the CA UC History-Social Science Project develop and disseminate Inquiry Sets that utilize rich primary sources and instructional strategies to bring a more honest and inclusive history to students from all communities. https://www.teachingcalifornia.org/

Enjoyed a day of researching more authentic ways to assess and document student completion of competencies as digital artifacts with teams of forward thinking educators and industry leads at Balboa HS in San Francisco CA.

Thank you Smithsonian for citing us as your Technical Partner and principal Site Development Team for the prestigious Webby Award for Best Education Site 2019! An additional shout out to our excellent design team @ Codename Design. Congrats to All!

Smithsonian Learning Lab -- The Webby Awards Best in Education 2019

While we are excited to celebrate with the California Historical Society as they near the official launch of their new Teaching California digital history site, we thought we might look beyond the site and digital learning resource design work we are known for, and focus on the less observable backend research and discovery efforts that help us to assist our clients in truly understanding the needs of the users they propose to support. Here is a glimpse of one piece of that "unseen" work that directly guided the product development approach for this incredible new digital learning resource.

Digital Curriculum Educator Survey Results from the Teaching California project - California Historical Society Related PostsWhat Not to Miss: Coming Up at CHSTeaching the Important, Honest, and Troubling…Uncovering remarkable documents through Teaching California With a summer 2019 launch on the horizon, the California Historical Society (CHS) is continuing work on the Teaching California website

Go read our latest post to find out why Navigation North is ramping up as schools are winding down!

For EdTech, Summer Time is Testing Time Summertime means testing time for those teams wanting to grab input from educators. Thinking, planning, and designing systems to increase the use of digital learning resources and enabling educators in sharing how they create richer, more equitable, and differentiated classrooms for students is our....