Individualized access
Teachers use IEP goals, accommodations, assistive technology, explicit instruction, and responsive pacing.
Our instructional commitments
Purposeful repetition
Students revisit important knowledge through discussion, music, visuals, hands-on work, practice, and real applications.
Multiple demonstrations
Students may explain learning through writing, speech, performance, models, art, technology, and community projects.
Akan-rooted community
Learning emphasizes wisdom, responsibility, relationships, memory, and the contributions of African and diasporic peoples.
Restorative practice
Dialogue, reflection, repair, belonging, and growth guide classroom culture and conflict response.
Multiple measures of growth
Portfolios, projects, conferences, performances, curriculum-based measures, and standards-aligned teacher evidence supplement any assessments required by law or an approved school program.
Culture and individualized access
Akan-rooted mathematics, English, and IEP support
See exactly how Akan oral traditions, proverbs, visual symbols, patterns, geometry, rhythm, and community knowledge connect English Language Arts and mathematics—and how each lesson provides individualized access for neurodivergent students through their IEPs.
Explore Akan Roots & IEP Integration →Academic Track
Complete subject curricula
Select a subject to view its grade 7 and grade 8 scope and sequence, learning goals, units, projects, assessments, and inclusive supports.
Language & literacy
English Language Arts
Literacy, voice, argument, media awareness, and storytelling through Black, African, Akan, New Orleans, and global texts.
View curriculum → Reasoning & applicationMathematics
Conceptual understanding, fluency, representation, problem solving, financial reasoning, data, and mathematics through music.
View curriculum → Evidence & memoryHistory
African and Akan worlds, the African diaspora, New Orleans, United States history, civic agency, and historical thinking.
View curriculum → Earth & resilienceGeoscience
Earth systems, weather, water, hazards, climate evidence, the Mississippi Delta, and Gulf Coast resilience.
View curriculum → Space & possibilityInterstellar Science
Astronomy, astrobiology, engineering, scientific evidence, mission design, ethics, and humanity’s place in the universe.
View curriculum →Life Skills Track
Practical learning for safer, more self-directed daily life
Each complete framework includes grade 7 and grade 8 units, authentic demonstrations, safety and privacy safeguards, IEP supports, and family or community connections.
Food, care & dignity
Cooking & Hygiene
Food safety, practical cooking, personal care, household routines, cultural foodways, and accessible independence.
View curriculum → Access, safety & movementTechnology & Mobility
Digital literacy, assistive technology, cybersecurity, maps, New Orleans transit, travel safety, and self-advocacy.
View curriculum → Planning & protectionPersonal Finance
Goals, earning, budgeting, banking, consumer decisions, credit, taxes, fraud prevention, and ethical enterprise.
View curriculum →All-Student Enrichment
Creative, cultural, linguistic, and public expression
Every student receives a meaningful role and multiple ways to communicate, create, perform, publish, and connect learning to Akan, Bono/Brong, African diasporic, and New Orleans contexts.
Visual & sequential art
Afro-manga Art
Original character design, comics craft, Akan visual research, African futures, copyright, critique, and accessible publication.
View curriculum → Language & living cultureAkan Language
Beginner listening, speaking, reading, writing, proverbs, daily communication, and respectful study of named Akan varieties.
View curriculum → Voice, memory & mediaStorytelling
Oral, written, visual, dramatic, and digital stories through Ananse, the African diaspora, New Orleans, and student imagination.
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