Summer Solutions
Let TCM be your summer partner in designing simple, clear solutions to make your summer programs rigorous, relevant and engaging. TCM is ready to help you with curriculum resources and professional development to offer a full solution to make your summer planning easier.
I really like the materials we are using for summer school! As I went through them all, I was just realizing just how wonderful the layout truly is! I'm going to learn even more from this opportunity and these materials.
Books/Collections
Instructional Resources
Professional Development
Free On-DemandWebinars
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Summer Scholars
A fresh approach to summer school that motivates students AND supports teachers.
Designed specifically for summer learning, our NEW Summer Scholars series features ready-to-implement lessons and activities that focus on key standards for language arts or mathematics.
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Building Vocabulary
Build academic vocabulary in as little as 20 minutes a day.
Set students up for academic success across the content areas with this systematic approach to teaching vocabulary.
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Smithsonian STEAM Readers
Build literacy skills while challenging students to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems!
Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this dynamic series engages students with high-interest readers that highlight all aspects of STEAM: science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics.
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Exploring Reading
Guide all students to become strong, independent readers!
This strategic and comprehensive intervention program engages students to discover the true joy of reading while mastering foundational skills.
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Reader's Theater
Develop students' fluency in reading using engaging scripts, poems, and songs!
This reading series is designed to teach reading, listening, and speaking skills through the performance of lively scripts and focused instruction.
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Let's Talk Math
Engage students as mathematical thinkers with this meaningful new approach to teaching math.
This series by Teacher Created Materials will make learning math more interesting and applicable to the real world by implementing structured, problem-solving routines.
TAKE-HOME LEARNING
Take-Home Backpacks
Prevent summer learning loss, prepare students for the coming school year, and strengthen school-home connections
Keep students reading over the summer while providing parents with tools to support their child's learning at home
TAKE-HOME LEARNING
Kids Learn!
Prevent summer learning loss and prepare students for the upcoming grade level.
This parental-involvement resource features standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics that both reinforce learning from the recently completed school year and prepare students for the next grade level.
TAKE-HOME LEARNING
Family Engagement Guides
Practice life skills and encourage Social-Emotional Learning at home.
Preparing your child for the next grade level is easy with our Family Engagement Guide! These 8-page guides contain simple tips and strategies to help families support their children during breaks from school.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Workshops
You pick the topic and we provide engaging training for small groups or your entire staff.
Attendees will have multiple opportunities to apply and demonstrate what they learn.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Best Practices Webinars
Our most cost-effective and flexible option.
Webinars are a great tool to sustain professional learning and to focus on a key topic or strategy.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Virtual Product Launches
Welcome to TCM Virtual Product Launches
Virtual Product Launches are specially designed to quickly train teachers on how to use a particular product so they can be more effective in their teaching
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Making the Complex Simple: Using Rigorous Texts
Develop knowledge, build vocabulary, improve comprehension across the content areas.
In this session, learners will: Identify nuances within text that make it difficult, develop understanding of student-centered ways to support knowledge and much more.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Building an Inquiry-Based Learning Environment
Teaching and learning using the inquiry-based instructional framework.
Teaching and learning using the inquiry-based instructional framework is beneficial for students in multiple content areas and increases student engagement.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
No More Problems with Problem Solving
Learn how to build students problem-solving perseverance.
One of the greatest hurdles of teaching mathematics is teaching students to become mathematical thinkers and to solve challenging problems. In this session, we will explore why students struggle with problem-solving and how to build their perseverance.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Let’s Talk Math: Engaging Students as Mathematical Thinkers
Learn how to develop mathematical thinkers.
n this session, learners will examine high-cognitive demand tasks and deepen their understanding of how to develop mathematical thinkers and to choose rigorous tasks that promote problem-solving skills.
FREE ON-DEMAND WEBINARS
How to Implement Summer School to Identify and Reverse Learning Loss
Meet the challenges of identifying and reversing learning loss.
In this strategic On-Demand webinar we discuss everything that you need to consider whether you are a veteran or novice summer school designer.
FREE ON-DEMAND WEBINARS
Let's Talk Math: Your Guide to Successful Problem Solving Instruction
See how Let’s Talk Math can support your mathematics instruction.
Let’s Talk Math is a brand-new, standards-aligned, research-based supplemental resource that provides a practical way to implement a 3 step process for successful problem solving.
FREE ON-DEMAND WEBINARS
Summer School Strategies for Identifying and Reversing Learning Loss
Strategies to implement during a summer school program to reverse learning disruption.
In this On-Demand webinar we discuss how the needs of all students invited to your summer program can be met as you prepare them for the beginning of a new school year.