 
• Transformational Change for Special Education
• Curriculum Framework for K-12 +
• Address Core Subjects & Employability Skills
The Academic Curriculum Framework is a comprehensive K–12+ program that horizontally and vertically aligns academic skills for students with moderate to severe intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Created by a team of educators experienced in special education, speech pathology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy, the framework provides a developmentally sequenced progression of skills that can be implemented district-wide, providing consistency and continuity across schools and grade levels.
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The program is presented in four different binders. Each binder contains the complete curriculum framework for one grade band:
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Content area and application skills are provided at every grade level for five core content areas:
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• Primary (K–2)
• Intermediate (3–5)
• Middle School (6–8)
• High School (9–12+)
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• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• Employability Skills
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Each Grade Level Binder Includes:
- Introduction and Directions for Use
- Definitions for Common Terms
- Integrated Teaching and Learning Cycle
- Horizontal and Vertical Content Skills Alignment for Five Content Areas
- Detailed Application Skills for each Content Area Skill
- Progress Monitoring Instructions
- 1 Progress Monitoring Booklet
- Accommodations and Modifications
- Grading Tips
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(Additional black and white versions of the Progress Monitoring Booklets may be purchased separately in packs of ten.)
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Content area skills are identified and aligned on easy-to-read charts to show the developmental progression of the skills throughout the student's academic career. These charts allow educators to determine the level of a student's key academic skills and the gaps in those skills at a glance.
Horizontal and vertical alignment charts are provided for the essential content area skills in all four academic subject areas as well as for employability. Every binder contains the same charts so that teachers of all levels can see the entire developmental progression of skills.
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The authors of the Academic Curriculum Framework have a combined 50 years of experience teaching and providing therapy for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Using the knowledge and skills they have acquired in these varied settings, the authors reviewed the general education standards for all 50 states and distilled them into developmentally appropriate standards for students with moderate to severe intellectual and developmental disabilities. The result is a strongly standards-based product covering all core subject areas in grades K–12+.
Contact PCI Education's sales team to ask about the standards correlations for your state.
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Look at Me! Progress Monitoring Booklets are available for each grade band in sets of ten
(black and white), providing educators and related service providers with a common resource that
can be used to consistently monitor student progress from K–12+. Each student's booklet provides a place to record specific, measurable data directly related to the content area skills on the program's curriculum charts.
The Look at Me! Progress Monitoring Booklets can be used to:
- Establish IEP needs, goals, and objective statements
- Monitor and document a student’s ongoing, measurable progress toward those goals
- Provide measurable data that may serve as a basis for modifying instruction and intervention
- Develop daily lesson plan goals and objectives
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Each binder features a section defining the difference between accommodations and modifications, providing tips and examples to help educators individualize instruction for their students’ needs.
In addition, each binder provides reproducible charts to record individual accommodations and modifications for all of a student’s classes. Talking points related to identifying and providing accommodations and modifications are also included.
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The Academic Curriculum Framework binders include sections for each of the core academic areas and employability skills. Within each section, skills are divided into:
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Core Skills are the same across grade levels – from kindergarten through high school and beyond.
Core Skills determine WHAT general skills should be taught.
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Each Core Skill is expanded to include more specific Content Area Skills.
Content Area Skills determine WHEN specific skills and concepts should be taught for each grade-level band.
Skills are introduced using a horizontal and vertical progression in which skills increase in complexity.
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Each Content Area Skill is expanded to include more specific Application Skills.
Application Skills determine HOW specific skills and concepts should be taught.
Skills are developmentally sequenced enabling students to systematically progress through each grade-level band.
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