Fox Curriculum designs courses, assessments, and instructional materials for the companies building what students actually use, then tests whether the design did what it claimed.
"A master of curriculum design."From five letters by principals, deans, and colleagues
AI is rewriting how teaching happens. The foundations of how education uses it are being poured right now. I intend to help pour them.
"The people building these tools are designing the cognitive conditions of the next generation, and almost none of them have that written anywhere in the product spec."
Course maps, scope and sequence, unit and lesson architecture, and standards alignment, built backward from what learners have to be able to do and carried through approval when a course needs it.
More →Assessments, rubrics, and scoring guides that measure what the course claims to teach, and audits of existing material that find out where it does not.
More →Advising for teams building learning products with AI, on the one constraint that matters: the tool has to require the thinking rather than perform it.
More →Designed and handed over as materials, delivered live, or delivered online, for teachers and adult professionals who will not sit through a session that wastes their time.
More →A school needed a full-year arts elective that would count for university admission, with nothing existing to build from.
Result: designed from a blank page and carried through University of California a-g subject-area review to approval.
First-generation college-bound seniors were missing not ability but a process for applying.
Result: 90% acceptance among participants, from a two-week program built backward from admission rather than forward from topics.
An AI-powered adaptive platform reported gains, and nobody had checked whether the gains were real or memorized.
Result: 70% → 75% accuracy at only 17% question overlap, which rules out memorization and leaves transfer.
A map that cannot survive questions about sequence, format, budget, and evaluation is not yet a map.
From five letters written by principals, deans, and colleagues who've worked alongside me for years.
“Taylor operates at an elite academic level and brings that rigor and excellence directly into her classroom.”
“Taylor's AP scores were the highest on school record.”
“She brings a rare balance of expertise, empathy, and practical insight.”
Cross-posted from LinkedIn, roughly as often as I can keep up with it.
🕵️ I have started writing a little worse on purpose.
I doubt I am the only one, and I have spent a few weeks trying to work out whether what I am watching is a small stylistic tic or the front edge of something linguists will find obvious in thirty years…
🤖 I say please and thank you to AI, and I am not planning to stop.
There is a real argument happening right now over whether courtesy toward a language model is a harmless habit or a small act of self-delusion. The case against it is sound. Here is my rub: that case is measuring the wrong thing. My reasons have almost nothing to do with the AI…
Courses, assessments, a product that has to teach something. Send what you have and I will tell you what it needs.
Start a project →
Fox Curriculum
