A significant, engaging, relevant, and challenging curriculum requires intentional planning. It affords students opportunities to learn about big ideas, learn through contextualized experiences, and learn to be experts in the field. In this session, explore how Michael Halliday's language framework of learning language, learning about language, and learning through language can be applied within, across, and beyond subjects to achieve significant, engaging, relevant, and challenging disciplinary or transdisciplinary curriculum that students desire and deserve.