Access and Outcomes

Curriculum Designed to Engage All Students

Make Richer Connections to Deepen Learning

Students who are more engaged with their learning show significantly greater academic gains than their peers. Engage in learning moments that invite and require more diverse voices to make content richer and more relevant to learners from different cultures, languages, and life experiences.

Trusted, Engaging Curriculum Made Easier

Save time looking for engaging content and materials that all students can connect to with trusted and researched curriculum. Students can draw connections with engaging content during whole class and small group instruction, collaborative and student-choice activities, and personalized feedback delivered by individualized, adaptive software.

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Engaging Students with Content

Support more equitable outcomes for all students across literacy and mathematics to create learning experiences that:

  • Accelerate learning for all students by sparking deep engagement
  • Create safe spaces in which students feel valued and seen
  • Reflect and validate unique cultural backgrounds and life experiences

Explore Content That Sparks Connection and Learning

Illustration of a person using sign language in the foreground with a singer performing on stage in the background, under colorful lights.

American Sign Language Representation

With inclusive learning content, students learn about the unique challenges some of their peers experience. In this text, students discover how American Sign Language can make events more accessible for a wider audience.

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A wooden platter with crispy samosas, one cut open to reveal the filling, served with green and red dipping sauces, garnished with corn and peas.

Multicultural Contexts

Cultural diversity adds knowledge building to any learning situation. Here, a math problem focuses on a samosa recipe, providing students with a sentence defining the term and a visual to help them understand the word in the context of the problem.

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Illustration of a young person with a backpack, looking at a restaurant with giraffe-shaped pillars and a sign reading La Cocina de la Lala.

Seeing Themselves in Their Learning

Students deserve learning experiences that reflect and validate their unique cultural backgrounds and life experiences, as shown in this example of family and work life within Cuban American culture from the published work of Pablo Cartaya.

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Spanish-language math lesson for families explaining fraction division with colorful equations and a background image of mixed grains.

Connect the Classroom to Home

Build strong connections between home and school by providing information on what students are learning and an activity for families to complete at home with Family Letters in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.

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Facilitate Math Talk for Everyone

Spark meaningful partner and whole class discussions that honor your students’ unique perspectives and experiences with the research-based Try–Discuss–Connect instructional framework.

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Lesson on unit rates with a cultural connection, featuring a map of California showing speed limits and a discussion on historical speed regulations.

Connect to Culture

The Teacher’s Guide’s Connect to Culture feature in i-Ready Classroom Mathematics provides ideas to increase engagement and connections with students' wide-ranging backgrounds and experiences.

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