Amid a confluence of messages regarding accountability, the Common Core State Standards, teacher effectiveness, and student performance, educators everywhere are looking for ways to revitalize their curriculum design and instructional practice. Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students offers a solution: providing students with meaningful, relevant units of study developed by the educators who actually teach them. The authors, both curriculum experts, advocate a gradual approach to transforming curriculum in which teachers work collaboratively to upgrade one unit at a time. Contents: Part I. Transforming the curriculum -- 1. Transformational perspectives -- 2. Transformational lenses -- 3. Applications of technology and Web-based tools -- 4. The transformation spiral -- Part II. Transformational snapshots -- 5. Ten-frame mathematics -- 6. Flat Stanley podcast -- 7. Talk pals -- 8. Microloans : a global impact -- 9. Film festival -- 10. Social.