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Who We Are: Standards & Curriculum Team
Bernard Merkel
Director of Client Services
bernard@onatlas.com
TOK - biannually
Prescribed Coordinator notes
1 week 1 week n/a Film - annually
works/essay titles/films Schools
Music - biennially
Addition of Subjects
e.g. MYP Sign
Schools n/a 2-4 weeks 1-2 weeks As requested
Language, DP SBS
Subjects
• Curriculum team extracts data • Curriculum team directly updates the Atlas standards
database
• Developers implement update
• For planner structure updates, Atlas creates the new
• Curriculum team carries out quality assurance planner as a sample to show schools and work with them
to determine best time to transition
• Curriculum team reviews updates on Staging before • Standards Team reviews updates to a staging system
deployed to Production before being released to schools
• Updates are cross-checked by S&S when school-
• For planner updates, Atlas works with teachers, schools,
requested
and IB consultants to determine how to make them
• External consultants support updates requiring
available for schools
significant development work
o Addition of IBCP • Schools provide feedback on use of planners /
o PYP Next curriculum and what is available and we make changes
o Group 1 Learner Portfolio based on their feedback
o TOK 2020
Consult a focus group of experienced users to provide • Atlas team determines how curriculum data might get
feedback during development transferred from area to area but school makes the final
call on what makes the most sense for them
Supplement with advice from external consultants