Inquiry-based programs where students analyze primary sources, build evidence-based arguments, and take part in rich discussion, in print and digital.
Explore Social Studies ProgramsSee how TCI engages all learners and provides comprehensive teach support to Bring Learning Alive! in K-12 classrooms.
Active learning, teacher-ready lessons, and a high-quality curriculum have always been at the heart of TCI. The new programs are sharper, more consistent, and built as a true K-12 system.
Bring Science Alive! is phenomena-driven and NGSS-aligned. Every unit opens on an anchoring phenomenon, then students investigate it the way scientists do.
Explore Science Programs
In this lesson from our Bring Science Alive! Weather and Climate program, students create their own wind, build a balloon barometer, and track atmospheric pressure.
Self-paced courses, live events, and opportunities to connect with or lead other educators — support that continues long after implementation week.
Stop by to meet the TCI team. We'll be at NSTA National Conference on Science Education (NSTA), California Science Education Conference (CASE), and STANYS Annual Conference this month.
Research-backed guidance on the questions districts are actually asking — from HQIM adoption to AI in the classroom.
Michael Washington, a 22-year classroom veteran, sees differentiation as how a lesson itself, built through active learning strategies, can reach every student in the room at once.
Built by teachers, for teachers.
Bringing Learning Alive! since 1989.
Megan Forbes is in her 15th year of teaching, and the program bends to how she wants to teach that day. Some days, that's the textbook and interactive notebook. Other days it's a Video Activity.
From hands-on activities to lively debates to digital lessons that actually work, these teacher voices highlight the creativity and passion of teachers using our programs and how student success starts with active learning.
Megan Forbes is a veteran history teacher at Arcadia Unified, heading into her 15th year in the classroom and her tenth at the district. Over the course of her teaching career, she has taught history, covering nearly every content area that middle school offers. This year marks a first for her: teaching only 6th-grade history.
Across the Hillsboro School District, social studies instruction lacked cohesion. Teachers were building lessons on their own, pulling from a mix of materials that varied widely from classroom to classroom.
For nearly three decades, Dean Vaccaro has taught middle school Social Studies, primarily 8th-grade U.S. History, at Roton Middle School in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Every day, TCI teachers shape learning and inspire students in classrooms nationwide.
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