Phase 4

Write lessons that ensure equitable access to rigorous content.

Every student deserves access to complex ideas, rich texts, and meaningful thinking. That requires curriculum intentionally designed to ensure all students can engage meaningfully with grade-level content. Inclusive design is not an add-on; it is the foundation of equitable instruction. Our sessions help teams design lessons that anticipate learner variability and provide multiple pathways into rigorous work. We give teams tools that are immediately usable: sentence frames, instructional routines, accessibility supports, graphic organizers, language objectives, scaffolded text sets, and task adaptations that preserve rigor.

By embedding Universal Design for Learning (UDL), culturally sustaining pedagogy, and evidence-based scaffolds, we ensure grade-level access without lowering expectations. Inclusive design expands access and ensures that rigor is reachable, not reserved for a few. The result is a curriculum that honors diversity, celebrates identity, and supports each student in becoming a powerful reader, writer, and thinker.

In action, this looks like:

  • Building text sets that offer multiple pathways into content

  • Writing language objectives alongside content objectives

  • Writing text-dependent questions that build in complexity

  • Embedding spaced repetition of vocabulary and morphology

  • Including lesson scaffolds that support thinking without reducing complexity

  • Creating multiple pathways for students to show understanding

  • Developing sentence starters, anchor charts, and writing frames that build independence