Curricular Resources

LITERACY

At ASL we use several curricular resources to support reading, writing and word study teaching and learning. 

READING: 

1. Units of Study Reader's Workshop: www.unitsofstudy.com Advisors receive teachers's guides for their respective grade levels which can be found in their classrooms. 

2. SIPPS - Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Sight Words (K-5th): www.collaborativeclassroom.org Advisors receive teachers's guides and student materials for their respective grade levels which can be found in their classrooms. 

TK - Heggerty www.heggerty.org

WRITING: 

1. Units of Study Writer's Workshop: www.unitsofstudy.com Advisors receive teachers's guides for their respective grade levels which can be found in their classrooms. 

WORD STUDY:

1. Words Their Way: www.pearson.com

HANDWRITING:

1. Handwriting Without Tears: www.lwtears.com 

For K-2nd grade students only. Materials are ordered at the end of each school year and stored in advisor's classrooms. 

Literacy Coach: 

Lisa Detwiler is ASL's Literacy Intervention Advisor and Coach. She supports literacy intervention, literacy assessment and data analysis, literacy professional development and is available for advisor coaching. She can be reached at lisadetwiler@aveson.org

MATH

At ASL we use the Eureka math curriculum Tk - 5th grade. Eureka math is published by Great Minds.  There are two components to the Eureka math curriculum: 

1. Printed Materials - Teacher Guides and Workbooks! Each grade level receives teacher guides and workbooks for each student. These are ordered at the end of the school year for the next school year. These materials get sorted during the summer and are stored in advisors' classrooms. 

2. Eureka Math In Sync - This is a digital platform for advisors to use to supplement their use of the printed curriculum.  Each advisor will receive their own log-in information to access the digital platform. However, we also have a demo account that anyone can use at anytime to explore the content: 

In Sync Site: digital.greatminds.org 

Log-in via email: teacherdemo4@greatmindsdemo.org

Password: GMDemo23!

Math advisors are also encouraged to create an account with the Great Minds website so that they can create their own dashboard and access many free materials and resources such as pacing guides and curriculum maps. 

www.greatminds.org 

Other Resources: 

• Eureka Pacing Spreadsheet

• Eureka Ordering Spreadsheet

PROJECTS

At ASL, the concept and philosophy of "projects" and the projects class was developed and cultivated overtime by master educators who combined PML and SEL into real life, hands on learning across all content areas. 

In the projects classroom, students immerse themselves in inquiry based study embedded in Common Core Standards, 21st Century and Global Competency skills. 

At the heart of this learning is self reflection and metacognitive thinking; deepening students'understanding of who they are as learners and who they are as advocates for themselves and others. 

The key steps to an authentic project process are: 

1. Investigate/Research

2. Evaluate

3. Take Action

4. Communicate/Present

5. Reflect 

The key tools to an authentic project process are: 

1. Rubrics

2. Interactive Notebooks/Cornell Notes

3. Digital Citizenship

Students at ASL engage in two inquiry based project cycles, culminating in a Celebration of Learning: 

1. Student Passion Project - December COL

2. Group Global Perspectives Project - May COL

Important Resources: 

• Lisl Bondsmith, who developed and has generously shared ALL of the currently used projects class content. She is our lead projects advisor and currently teaches in the AISA program, 4th - 6th grade. She can be reached at lislbondsmith@aveson.org

• Projects Standards Mastery Learning Outcomes

• Aveson Projects Essentials (geared for 3rd - 5th) 

• ARTICLE - 8 Essentials for PBL

Staff will receive projects professional development throughout the course of the school year. 

ADVISORY: 

At ASL we use several curricular resources to support social and emotional (SEL) as well as social justice teaching and learning. 

SEL: 

1. Conscious Discipline: www.consciousdiscipline.com

Advisor only book, located in classroom. 

2. MindUp: www.mindup.org

Advisor only book, located in classroom. 

3. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: www.pbis.org

4. The First Days of School: www.effectiveteaching.com

Advisor only book, located in classroom. 

SOCIAL JUSTICE:

1. Pollyanna: www.pollyannainc.org

This is an on-line resource. Advisors need to sign-up for free, download and/or print the curriculum as necessary.

Other Social Justice Learning Resources: 

1. Consent Lessons - all advisors are expected to teach 3-5 lessons per school year as needed starting in September. 

2. Teaching for Justice  Domains/Pollyanna Curriculum Merging Map

3. Teaching For Justice  Social Justice Standards

4. Aveson Advocacy Alliance - ASL has a team of educators/staff dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at ASL. The team is called Aveson Advocacy Alliance (AAA). This team meets 1-2 times per month to support curriculum, DEI events, DEI focus months as well as student support issues involving harmful incident reports. This team is open to anyone at ASL who would like to join. Current team members are: Casey Rasmussen, Stina Ross, Arlynn Page, Molly Tuchman and Lisl Bondsmith. Any staff member can reach out to anyone on the team to get support in any issue related to DEI. If you are interested in joining this team, reach out to Casey Rasmussen! 

5. Library Collections - ASL has four library collections to support SEL and Social Justice learning. All library collections will be held in the new Literacy Yurt. Until then, they are in the Connections Room.  Each collection has a sign-out book. Staff are expected to sign-out the book(s) they are wishing to use and return them in a timely manner for other staff to be able to use :

a.) Pollyanna Curriculum collection - ASL owns three sets of each title for the entire curriculum K-5th grade. 

b.) George Floyd Memorial collection - a range of picture and chapter books to help staff supplement advisory and social justice lessons. This is a growing collection! Suggestions and feedback are always welcomed in order to make this a robust and useful collection. 

c.) Consent collection - ASL owns a growing collection of books on the topic of consent to support the consent lesson expectations. 

d.) SEL collection - ASL owns a growing collection on books on a variety of SEL topics. Some titles are aligned with ASL's Guiding Principles as well.