• Teacher's Guide - the teacher's guide outlines an overview of the learning management system, looking inside a course, and additional resources.

• Getting Started with Accelerate in Canvas webinar - featured recording, slides

These documents provide a high level overview of our curriculum and pedagogy design within different grade bands.

• Elementary Curriculum Overview, Grades K-3

• Elementary Curriculum Overview, Grades 4-5

• Middle and High School Curriculum Overview, Grades 6-12

Recommended Action(s):

• Access and browse the standard alignment documents

• Sight Words list by Module:

  • Language Arts Grade 2

  • Language Arts Grade 3

Teachers can browse the Accelerate education content library to get an idea of the modules, resources, assignments they can "lean on" this fall with students. To get started navigate to Canvas All Courses. From here you can search by key word or use the next/previous button. Click on ANY course tile, and you will be able to browse the course as a user, see the modules, etc. Watch this brief screencast showing this in action.

Recommended Action(s):

• Access the Accelerate Content and browse content that you will be teaching this fall.

Teachers can now load Accelerate content directly in to a course through a custom built tool called the Canvas Content Manager (CCM). The content, mentioned above, might be something you are leveraging for face-to-face or virtual instruction. In order to get started, please visit this FAQ page that walks through how to (A) load specific items from Accelerate and (B) load an entire course.

Recommended Action(s):

• Using the CCM tool, load course content for a subject you are teaching this fall

Teachers can rearrange modules and content items by dragging and dropping items. Teachers can also publish or unpublish modules/content. To learn more, please visit this Canvas Support article. Teachers can also supplement by adding content to the module or additional modules.

Recommended Action(s):

• Practice publishing or unpublishing a module and use Student View to explore the course as a user.