Do you need help with pacing or scheduling? Are you interested in turnkey tools to support instruction? Are you looking for guidance with improving or sustaining implementation? If your answer to any of these questions is, “yes,” then you have come to the right place.
Review our Implementation Support Tools and Resources
- Pacing Guides: Access pacing tools that can support your planning efforts across Core Knowledge curricula.
- CKLA Implementation Guide: Peruse this guide to find alignments, on-demand presentations, and a plethora of other resources that can support CKLA (1st edition) instruction.
- Implementation Analysis Tools: Identify opportunities to strengthen your classroom or school’s Core Knowledge implementation.
K–5 Pacing Guides
The K–5 guides offer sample pacing for CKLA (1st Edition), CKHG, and CKSci curricula. Please note that the K–2 pacing guides include examples for teachers who provide daily social studies and science instruction as well as examples for those who teach social studies and science only 2–3 days per week.
- Core Knowledge Curriculum Pacing Guides K–2
- Core Knowledge Curriculum Pacing Guides 3–5
Middle School Pacing Guides
- CKLA Grade 6 Yearlong Pacing Guides (Basic; Detail)
- CKHG Grade 6 Yearlong Pacing Guide
- CKHG, American History, Pacing Guides (Full Program, Volume 1 only, Volume 2 only)
- CKHG, World History, Pacing Guides (Full Program, Volume 1 only, Volume 2 only)
Minimum and Maximum Day Charts
This guide offers a range of on-demand presentations, turnkey workshops, job aids, and a plethora of other tools that can support CKLA implementation. The majority of resources align with the 1st edition of CKLA (© 2013), which is the version available for free download.
We hope that these resources help to enhance your understanding and strengthen your implementation of the CKLA program.
Review the Core Implementation Practices.
Review our Core Implementation Practices: A Guide to Effective Implementation of Core Knowledge (revised 2019). This suite of tools describes what it means to implement Core Knowledge with a high degree of fidelity.
Self-assess your implementation.
Consider using our Implementation Feedback Report: Self-Reflection Tool to assess your instructional program. This tool is intended to guide your reflection relative to the goals and level of rigor articulated in the Core Implementation Practices guide described above.
Schedule a diagnostic visit.
If you are interested in receiving feedback in regard to implementation improvement, consider scheduling a diagnostic visit. These visits are designed to provide you with tailored feedback regarding your Core Knowledge implementation, as well as recommendations for continued refinement.
A school diagnostic visit also serves as a first step in the Core Knowledge School of Distinction process.
Are you ready to join the Core Knowledge Community?
It uses tools like Facebook Groups and Pinterest Boards to give teachers a place to share their ideas and resources, ask questions, learn from each other, and connect with other schools teaching Core Knowledge.