Explore Our California Curriculum
Flip through each program’s components and learn how TCI’s curriculum engages students and supports teachers. See how TCI supports the History-Social Science Framework while making social studies fun and engaging for students!
Social Studies Alive! My School and Family
Social Studies Alive! My Community
Social Studies Alive! California’s Communities
Social Studies Alive! California’s Promise
Social Studies Alive! America’s Past
Engage All Learners
In a TCI classroom, learning comes alive! Flexible lesson options let you pick the engagement style that works for your students.
Support for All Learners
TCI’s programs include a number of reading tools, strategies, and activities to provide extra support for students. Explore our English language support features.
Built-In Reading Support
Tools like differentiated reading levels, text-to-speech, main ideas, and highlighting provide extra reading support. Students can build their vocabulary with checks for understanding and vocabulary cards.
Spanish Immersion
TCI’s programs are available in English and Spanish to support dual immersion classrooms and English Learners.
Differentiating Instruction
Each lesson includes adjustments to support English Learners, Learners with Special Education Needs, Learners Reading and Writing Below Grade Level, and Advanced Learners.
ELA Integration
Social Studies Alive! integrates reading and writing to help students develop language arts skills. The vibrant informational text explores different perspectives, literature, primary sources, and biographies. See how TCI integrates English language arts with social studies.
Teacher Support
Planning Tools
TCI makes your life easier with comprehensive teacher support including pacing guides, enhancing learning, and differentiating instruction.
Professional Development
TCI is a supportive partner for teachers and provides live and self-paced professional development where you can earn certificates.
Seamless Tech Integrations
Rostering + Learning Management Systems
Our digital platform integrates seamlessly, allowing you to stay connected with your students. Explore our LMS integrations.
Many Ways to Assess
Formative and summative assessments are woven throughout every TCI lesson and reading, including creative processing assignments, lesson games, and TCI’s customizable tests. Learn more about flexible assessment options.
Build a Community of Learners
TCI’s philosophy is grounded in the goal of creating cooperative classroom communities in which students learn about the world through multiple perspectives and make connections to their own lives.
Development Process
Accuracy and diversity drive TCI’s curriculum-development process. Our programs are guided by state standards, as well as a commitment to highlighting multiple perspectives and diverse viewpoints in the curriculum. This includes examining multiple perspectives and integrating important primary sources. TCI has an extensive editorial and scholarly review process to ensure that our content is both fair and accurate.
Cooperative Classroom
TCI’s Cooperative Classroom provides the foundation for our approach to active learning. This involves creating a classroom environment where all students are valued and have a voice. In this classroom, teachers build meaningful connections with students and act as facilitators for student learning. Teachers also set norms that allow for civil discourse and the respectful expression of viewpoints and perspectives.
Personal Connections
Making personal connections to content is at the heart of TCI’s approach to teaching. Each lesson begins with a preview activity that helps students build background knowledge and make connections to upcoming content. Lessons include opportunities for students to take part in authentic learning assignments in which they are encouraged to apply their personal voice and interests to demonstrate what they have learned.
