Explore Our California Curriculum
Flip through each program’s components and read about how TCI’s curriculum structure helps students and supports teachers. See how TCI supports the History-Social Science Framework while making social studies fun and engaging for students!
History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond
History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism
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 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 Spanish speakers learning English.
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.
Dive Deeper with a TCI Lesson
TCI’s high-interest readings provide a variety of ways to build critical thinking skills. The History Alive! programs include Investigating Primary Sources, where students construct arguments using historical texts and artifacts. Our ever-expanding learning libraries are also a rich resource for adding videos, games, civics, and biographies to lessons.
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.
