TeachTown’s award-winning Launch for PreK and enCORE curricula have been designed for early childhood through transition-age learners in Wayne County, MI districts.
For early childhood educators: Launch for PreK delivers a comprehensive, inclusive early childhood curriculum for all of your young learners ages 3–5. Students learn together and at their own pace with a theme-based, play-focused, and data-driven curriculum that nurtures literacy, language, and social communication—setting the foundation for lifelong success.
For K-12+ special educators: Support your students’ academic growth with standards-first, adapted core curriculum, enCORE, while building essential life skills in social, language, and behavior. Our K-12+ whole-child approach drives measurable outcomes and meaningful learning opportunities for students with moderate to severe disabilities.
Placing equity and inclusion at the forefront of education, our K-12 Michigan-aligned, adapted core curriculum, enCORE, sets up our most complex learners in Wayne County and surrounding areas to experience academic AND personal success:
The tools we offer at TeachTown directly align with Michigan Essential Elements and provide schools in Wayne County with a measurable, whole-child education for students with disabilities from early childhood through the transition years.
TeachTown’s enCORE ensures:
We are proud to be a Verified Supplier through CoPro+, a Michigan-based cooperative
purchasing program designed for schools and local government agencies. Our contract has been competitively awarded and is available for use by all CoPro+ members.
As a result of a successful competitive bid, schools in Michigan are now eligible to purchase TeachTown’s PreK-12+ curricula with incentivized pricing through the CoPro+ program without the need for a separate RFP process.
Michigan districts can join as a member of CoPro+ for free at www.ppim.org and then search for TeachTown under the ‘Search Contracts’ section of the website.
With a primary focus in Michigan 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: 
enCORE K-12 is structured to promote literacy and inspire confident readers among Michigan students!
View the Outline of The Science of Reading Components in enCORE
Data from our MI customers indicates impressive student growth, with an average 65% student growth rate between pre- and post-test scores in elementary, middle, and high school.
enCORE targets the Essential Elements 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, Michigan 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.
Located just outside Detroit, Michigan, Redford Union School District (RUSD) serves 3,777 students across two elementary schools, one junior high, one high school, one alternative placement school, and a day treatment center. Students receiving special education services in Redford Union School District are taught in inclusive settings, as well as self-contained classrooms. Prior to implementing TeachTown’s K-12 standards-first, adapted core curriculum, enCORE, Tamaran Dillard, Executive Director of Student Services of RUSD, shared that the district’s special education programs lacked a consistent, structured curriculum for students with moderate to severe disabilities.
Without uniformity, teachers were forced to compile lessons from various online sources, leading to increased prep time and elevated stress. Additionally, the absence of a formal system for assessing student progress made it difficult to track growth and evaluate instructional effectiveness. RUSD needed a curriculum that would reduce the burden on educators while providing high-quality, individualized instruction to students. That’s where TeachTown came in.
Tamaran Dillard, Executive Director of Student Services, Redford Union School District, shares, “TeachTown has been an instrumental learning platform for our students with unique learning abilities.” She continues, “It provides a comprehensive and predictable landscape for students to grow at their own pace, while providing challenging opportunities for success by way of a common core aligned, streamlined curriculum. Our staff confidently utilize TeachTown, and it has reduced the stress of independently pulling curriculum together and allows for an enhancement in their own creativity as teachers!”
Read the full Redford Union School District x TeachTown success story here
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TeachTown is the umbrella name for all of our programs. Depending on what your district purchases 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 Michigan-aligned, 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, digraphs, 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’s K-12 standards-first, adapted core curriculum, enCORE, alongside the key learning interventions that support student success, are eligible for purchase with Act 18 funds.
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