Curriki

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Strengths:

 * Free to join.
 * Provides valuable teacher resources for free.
 * Allows teachers to share ideas.
 * Curriculum and resources are available at all levels.
 * Allows practitioners to provide their colleagues feedback.
 * Allows teachers to search by grade-level standards for their state.
 * Many pieces of curriculum have been reviewed and judged exemplary by other users.

Weaknesses:

 * Although membership is free, when one registers the community asks for a donation.
 * Some lessons are missing standards.
 * Not all states' standards are available.
 * So much is available that search time for valuable lessons may be overwhelming.

Opportunities:

 * So many great lessons exist and can be altered to meet the needs of one's classroom.
 * Teachers can see how their curriculum measures up to other practitioners in their field.
 * Teachers can receive feedback to encourage positive change in their curriculum.
 * Teachers can give others constructive feedback for the improvement of their curriculum.

**Threats**:

 * There are no perceived threats from this tool.

Ideas for the Classroom:

 * Teachers could use the ideas as starting points to develop their own curriculum.
 * Teachers could use the exact curriculum in their classrooms based on their own state standards.
 * Teachers could use platform to submit curriculum and have its validity judged by their peers.