Our CA standards-first, adapted core curriculum, along with our supporting interventions, challenge your students with the appropriate level of rigor while promoting independence, employability and community access to succeed in a post-secondary setting.
enCORE is a standards-aligned, adapted core curriculum for California K-12 students with moderate to severe disabilities.
Fully aligned with the California State Standards and Alternate Pathway to a Diploma requirements, enCORE delivers rigorous instruction in ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Through evidence-based practices, hands-on materials, responsive technology, and scripted, differentiated lessons, enCORE makes compliance achievable while supporting measurable student growth, independence, and post-secondary readiness.
TeachTown is dedicated to providing every California student with equitable access to a standards-first core curriculum that promotes inclusion and meaningful participation in the general education curriculum.
enCORE is fully aligned with the California State Standards and specifically adapted for students with moderate to severe disabilities, ensuring access without lowering academic expectations. With enCORE, California districts can confidently meet and exceed the requirements of the Alternate Pathway to a Diploma, while preparing students for independence, employability, and lifelong success.
Explore the full scope and sequence of high school coursework to see how enCORE supports compliance and student growth.
With a primary focus in California pointing to literacy and reading comprehension among students, the 5 tenets of the Science of Reading have been systematically embedded into the ELA domain of enCORE, from Kindergarten through the transition years:
As literacy scores fall throughout the country, California reading guidance supports the Science of Reading for district implementation. enCORE K-12 is structured to promote literacy and inspire confident readers among California students.
View the Outline of The Science of Reading Components in enCORE
TeachTown makes effective instruction possible with built-in data and assessment tools that support evidence-based teaching and individualized progress monitoring. Every lesson, assessment, and interaction within enCORE generates meaningful data to align with IEP goals, track student growth, and guide instructional decisions.
By streamlining data collection and reporting, TeachTown ensures students on California’s Alternate Pathway to a Diploma receive responsive, personalized instruction that drives both academic and functional outcomes.
California educators are achieving powerful outcomes with enCORE, Teach Town’s K-12 standards-first, adapted core curriculum. From San Bernardino to San Francisco, districts are seeing measurable student growth and meaningful progress across grade levels.
enCORE targets the California Content Standards via socially and developmentally-appropriate, research-based instruction. Offering a strategic blend of hands-on, teacher-led instruction and technology-facilitated lessons, every single unit and lesson segment in enCORE is structured to flow through a gradual release of responsibility, guiding students from exposure to mastery.
Supporting personalized instruction and automated data collection aligned to your students’ IEPs and skill levels, California special educators can run reports in enCORE at any time to analyze student progress, monitor growth toward IEP goals, assess mastery of specific learning objectives and more.
Take a look at real data from your own California peers below.
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TeachTown is committed to the success of students with moderate to severe disabilities by equipping California’s special educators with ongoing, hands-on support.
From new teachers to seasoned professionals, our professional development ensures confident, evidence-based instruction through:
TeachTown is the umbrella name for all of our programs. Depending on what your district has purchased for you, you will have access to one or more programs from our suite. The complete list of programs includes:
enCORE is an award-winning K-12 standards-based, adapted core curriculum for students with moderate to severe disabilities. It includes leveled, differentiated content across English Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies and includes content to fill all instructional time in these areas. enCORE incorporates traditional lesson plans as well as technology-based instruction to provide equity and accessibility to all students.
Through interactive content, visuals, illustration and storytelling, our adapted core curriculum enCORE represents the diversity and multiculturalism of the population of students it serves. Bonus – student engagement and knowledge retention skyrockets as a result!
enCORE’s advanced blended learning model includes hands-on, teacher-led lessons and technology-facilitated, individualized student-led lessons. Our teacher guides, student workbooks, adapted reading library and hands-on manipulatives and materials bring ease and efficiency to the lives of teachers.
enCORE Elementary is designed to serve students in grades K-5. This curriculum includes 36 units of instruction (18 units for K-2, and 18 units for 3-5) across ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Each unit contains a fiction and associated nonfiction book that anchors the instruction across all four domains. Lessons are completely scripted and differentiated with 3 levels of support for all students.
enCORE Middle School serves students in grades 6-8 and includes 27 units of instruction. Each unit contains an adapted chapter book and two corresponding companion texts. Science content covers Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. Social Studies includes U.S. History, World History, Civics, and Government.
enCORE High School launched in 2022 for students in grades 9-12 and all lessons include high school-appropriate coursework, an expanded adapted library, and opportunities to work on transition skills.
Yes. According to the Science of Reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension, are all necessary components of becoming a skilled reader – which is why each of these are systematically embedded into the ELA domain of enCORE, from kindergarten through the transition years.
Phonemic awareness: enCORE Elementary includes age-appropriate phonemic awareness activities to support students learning to identify & manipulate individual sounds in words. Includes rhyming skills and follows a developmental progression.
Phonics: Each unit of enCORE K-12 contains phonics instruction, beginning with single sound-letter correspondence, short vowels, diagraphs, initial and final blends, common inflections and silent ‘e,’ progressing to vowel teams, vowel digraphs, r- controlled vowels, word patterns, and the most common prefixes and suffixes, and moving toward decoding and spelling.
Fluency: Repeated readings are embedded in the enCORE implementation guide within every unit, giving students the opportunity to read the literature (with or without icons), from the e-Reader OR have the e-Reader read to them.
Vocabulary: Every unit of enCORE K-12 focuses on vocabulary that is embedded within that unit’s literature, with vocabulary words embedded in the text multiple times so that students have multiple opportunities to engage with the words and develop deeper semantic knowledge.
Text Comprehension: Every segment in enCORE begins with anchored instruction to help students connect information in the text to their daily lives or to build background knowledge prior to reading. Each book, companion text, and/or chapter incorporates multiple comprehension activities to address text comprehension standards.
To learn more about The Science of Reading component in the enCORE curriculum, click here.
Yes! TeachTown exceeds the requirements of the California Alternate Pathway to Diploma, ensuring districts can provide students with appropriately rigorous academic content to achieve the Alternate Diploma.
enCORE High School coursework includes four full years of ELA, four full years of Math, four full years of Science, and four full years of Social Studies. To see the full scope and sequence of high school coursework and alignment to standards, view our guidebook or speak with a representative.
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