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Benchmark Literacy

Benchmark Literacy is a comprehensive, research-proven program that empowers both experienced and beginning teachers with best-practice tools for vertically aligned K-6 reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language instruction:

  • 30 weeks of comprehension-focused instruction
  • Pre-, ongoing, and post-assessment
  • Gradual-release mini-lessons with built-in choice
  • High-quality informational, narrative, and opinion/argument texts
  • Complex texts for close reading applying text-dependent strategies
  • Differentiated support for English learners and special needs students
  • Customized professional development services
  • State-of-the-art interactive technology

Benchmark Literacy . . .

  • Builds foundational skills—such as phonics, word study, and fluency-to produce proficient readers
  • Scaffolds ALL students to access complex informational and literary texts during whole-group lessons during Weeks 1 and 2
  • Guides students to use text evidence in close reading
  • Provides opportunities for students to develop collaborative conversations
  • Develops writers by teaching writing process and writing to sources

Sanford Harmony

Harmony SEL is a social and emotional learning program for Pre-K-6 grade students. Harmony fosters knowledge, skills, and attitudes boys and girls need to develop healthy identities, create meaningful relationships, and engage productively by providing SEL learning resources, tools, and strategies.

Eureka Math

Eureka Math provides the rigor, personalization, and student engagement your students need to be successful with the Common Core State Standards. This re-imagined approach to elementary math is fully aligned with the Common Core State Standards and Mathematical Practices, allowing you to focus on inspiring a love of learning.

FOSS (Full Option Science System)

FOSS (Full Option Science System) is a research-based science curriculum for grades K-8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. FOSS has evolved from a philosophy of teaching and learning that has guided the development of successful active-learning science curricula for more than 40 years. The FOSS Program bridges research and practice by providing tools and strategies to engage students and teachers in enduring experiences that lead to deeper understanding of the natural and designed worlds.

Impact: California Social Studies 

Impact takes a fresh approach to standards-based curriculum. The instructional model builds inquiry skills through active engagement with a rich variety of primary sources, informational tests, media, and participation in real-world application. 

Health & Wellness: The Great Body Shop 

THE GREAT BODY SHOP is a comprehensive health education curriculum that is sequential, developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive and medically accurate. THE GREAT BODY SHOP is aligned to the National Health Education Standards, the National Sexuality Education Standards, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricular and the core concepts recommended by CDC’s HECAT.