In 2011, Student Achievement Partners’ began developing tools and resources designed to give more students access to high-quality, standards-aligned math and literacy instruction. Over the last decade, this robust bank of standards-aligned content and support for educators has lived on AchievetheCore.org. In 2024, Student Achievement Partners transitioned to a new website at LearnwithSAP.org, as we continue to expand our focus on affirming, joyful and grade-level instruction for all students that builds on, but goes beyond the standards. AchievetheCore.org will continue to house Student Achievement Partners’ historic work, including several key foundational resources found below:
College & Career-Ready Standards & Aligned Instructional Practice and Materials
- College- and Career-Ready Instructional Shifts Key ideas to enacting college- and career-ready standards
- Instructional Practice Guides (Math and ELA/Literacy): tools to observe high-quality, standards-aligned instruction in action
- Instructional Practice Toolkits and Classroom Videos: build understanding and experience with instruction aligned with college- and career-ready standards) through professional development modules
- Lesson Planning Tool: guides teachers through a series of prompts about the lesson content, structure, and activities to ensure the Shifts required by college- and career-ready standards are central to the lesson.
- Instructional Materials Evaluation Tools: a tool for evaluating a comprehensive textbook or textbook series for alignment to the Shifts and major features of college- and career-ready standards.
Learning
- Principles for High-Quality Professional Learning: clarity and direction for those charged with selecting or designing professional learning for teachers and those who support teachers
- Teachable Courses
ELA/Literacy
- Academic Word Finder: Digital tool to find the high-value, tier two vocabulary in any text.
- Early Reading Accelerators: resources, learning, and tools related to two critical pieces in systematic early reading instruction: securing foundational skills and building knowledge and vocabulary.
- Foundational Skills: professional learning, planning, and student-facing resources to support the components of reading foundational skills instruction
- Foundational Skills Observation Tool: lightweight observation tool is designed to help facilitate reflection, professional learning conversations following a classroom observation session.
- Fluency Resources: Resources for building and assessing student fluency to improve reading comprehension.
- Read Aloud Project: Over 100 lessons to support read aloud lessons in K-2.
- Text Complexity & Analysis: Resources to support analyzing texts for grade-level complexity and beyond.
- Text-Dependent Questions: tools to help write and evaluate text-dependent questions.
Math
- Coherence Map: tool designed to illuminate the coherent connections of the standards
- Focus Documents: guidance that outlines the major work of each grade so that students can gain strong foundations: solid conceptual understanding, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply the math they know to solve problems inside and outside the math classroom.
- Progressions documents: guidance describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children’s cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics.
- Fractions Collection: resources to support one’s own learning of fractions as well as the teaching and learning of fractions with students.