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: This guide contains alignments, on-demand presentations, and a wide range 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 and 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
The CKLA Middle School pacing guides provide year-long roadmaps for Grades 6–8 instruction, breaking down CKLA content into weekly and daily lessons to support consistent and effective implementation.
- CKLA Grade 6 Yearlong Pacing Guides
- CKLA Grade 7 Yearlong Pacing Guides
- CKLA Grade 8 Yearlong Pacing Guides
The CKHG Middle School pacing guides provide suggested year-long timelines for Grades 6–8, outlining how units can be organized into weekly and daily segments. There are several ways to use the program, and the pacing guides below detail the different approaches.
- CKHG Grade 6 Yearlong Pacing Guide
- CKHG Grade 7 (American History) Pacing Guides (Full Program, Volume 1 only, Volume 2 only)
- CKHG Grade 8 (World History) Pacing Guides (Full Program, Volume 1 only, Volume 2 only)
Instructional Day Charts
The Instructional Day Charts or “Minimum/Maximum Day” documents for CKHG and CKSci present suggested ranges for how many instructional days each grade or unit should take, offering flexibility for shorter or extended pacing depending on context.
The CKLA Scope and Sequence outlines a year-long progression of rich literary, informational, and primary-source texts that build background knowledge in history, culture, science, and the arts. Students develop strong reading, writing, grammar, and morphology skills through genre-diverse units that integrate content learning with explicit literacy instruction.
CLKA Grade 6 Scope and Sequence
CLKA Grade 7 Scope and Sequence
CLKA Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
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 want feedback on implementation improvement, consider scheduling a diagnostic visit. These visits are designed to provide you with tailored feedback regarding your Core Knowledge implementation and recommendations for continued refinement.
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.