In today’s classrooms, students rarely experience just one instructional program or resource. District leaders guide committees in the selection of core curriculum, school leaders identify needs to be filled with a supplemental resource, and teachers identify and prioritize additional materials to use as they craft a lesson each day.
The result for students is an instructional environment shaped by a blend of materials, each selected with good intentions, but not always with a shared vision.
Through our recent work, we’re examining how the coexistence of core and supplemental materials can either reinforce or undermine instructional coherence. When materials work together, they can strengthen learning pathways and support consistent instruction across classrooms and grade levels. But when misaligned, they risk creating fragmented learning experiences that do not set students up for long-term success.
In our latest blog, we explore national data and share ideas for district leaders aiming to design coherent, high-impact instructional systems.
As always, we’re here to surface insights gathered across hundreds of districts and support you to strengthen coherence where it matters most - in the classroom.
Your partner in education,
The CEMD Team
