Profiles curriculum reform efforts at a Spanish Harlem school participating in a diverse, 150-member Basic School Network inspired by Ernest L. Boyer's work. Curriculum is constructed around eight commonalities: the life cycle, use of symbols, group membership, sense of time and space, aesthetic responsiveness, connections to nature, production…

The 21st-century integrated curriculum will be based not on themes, but on broad, unchanging concepts. The concept-based curriculum will require teaching of necessary language arts and other skills as needed for in-depth concept study. This approach offers common learning for all students by broadening specific objectives of many subject areas.…