What if your teachers had the tools and support to transform every lesson?

Targeted Instruction Starts with a Strategic Roadmap

When schools partner with TeachSmart, they don’t just receive high-quality resources—they gain a full instructional roadmap. From the very start, you’ll have access to a customized pacing calendar that maps out the entire year of U.S. History instruction from 1492 to 1877, ensuring:

✔️ Every era is taught with intention and clarity
✔️ Standards are covered in a logical, student-friendly flow
✔️ Teachers always know what’s next—and how to teach it

By the end of the year, your team will have taught U.S. History with confidence, coverage, and consistency.

The Heart of the TeachSmart Curriculum: Guided Slide Presentations 

Experience ready-to-teach lessons that do the heavy lifting for you—while growing your teachers’ instructional practice. With over 85 editable slideshow presentations, each one follows the full lesson cycle and is designed to support mastery-level learning from start to finish.

✔️ Engaging anticipatory sets to activate thinking
✔️ Direct instruction that’s clear and scaffolded
✔️ Built-in checks for understanding
✔️ Guided student notes and embedded academic vocabulary
✔️ Interactive strategies and collaborative practice
✔️ Independent tasks for reinforcement
✔️ Closure activities that promote reflection and retention

Each presentation is more than a lesson—it’s a model of strong teaching that helps teachers internalize effective instruction while delivering it.

From Modeling to Mastery: Gradual Release in Action

Every lesson follows a gradual release model—I do, We do, You do—so teachers can scaffold instruction and gradually shift responsibility to students with confidence.

✔️ Guided notes in a Cornell-style format to help students capture, process, and retain key content
✔️ Clear transitions from teacher-led instruction to collaborative learning
✔️ Independent practice activities that directly align with the day’s lesson objectives
✔️ Built-in opportunities for student writing, reflection, and language development

This structure supports all learners while promoting academic ownership—and makes it easy for teachers to implement best practices daily.

On-Demand Teaching with Guided Video Lessons

Take instructional support to the next level. The TeachSmart Guided Video Lessons walk students through content and activities with clarity and energy—just like having an expert co-teacher in the room.

Whether it's for absentee students, substitute coverage, or targeted review, these video lessons ensure every learner stays on track.

✔️ Aligned directly to each lesson in the curriculum
✔️ Engaging, easy-to-follow, and built to support student success
✔️ Perfect for asynchronous learning, reteach, or independent review

With TeachSmart, no instructional time is lost—ever.

Content Clarity at a Glance: U.S. History Focus Guides

TeachSmart’s Focus Guides bring clarity to complex U.S. History content through visually engaging, one-page reference tools tailored specifically for middle school learners. These printable guides support student retention while building content confidence.

✔️ Covers the entire U.S. History curriculum from 1492-1877
✔️ Integrates key facts, maps, vocabulary, and themes in one student-friendly layout
✔️ Ideal for review, reteach, and front-loading historical context

Designed to boost comprehension and streamline instruction, these Focus Guides make every era easier to teach—and easier to learn.

Anchor Understanding with Visual Reinforcement

Over 100 Curriculum-Aligned Anchor Charts Ready to Print

Bring big concepts to life with TeachSmart’s collection of high-resolution anchor charts, tailored specifically to the U.S. History content teachers are covering. These charts are designed to reinforce academic vocabulary, timelines, cause and effect relationships, and more—all in a format that’s visually engaging and ready to go.

✔ Over 100 anchor charts aligned to the 1492–1877 curriculum
✔ High-resolution files for poster-size classroom display
✔ Perfect for student reference, visual learners, and unit walls
✔ Organized and accessible—print exactly what you need, when you need it

These charts don’t just decorate classrooms—they support lasting understanding.

Targeted Growth with AMMs

Approaches, Meets, and Masters Resources That Adapt to Student Need

TeachSmart’s AMMs (Approaches, Meets, Masters) resources are designed to help teachers close academic gaps and push every student forward—whether they’re striving to meet grade level or ready to go deeper. After each six-week assessment, teachers have ready-made, differentiated materials aligned to student performance levels.

✔ Tiered resources tailored to three performance levels: Approaches, Meets, and Masters
✔ Aligned to the 1492–1877 curriculum and six-week assessments
✔ Promotes reteach, enrichment, and data-driven instruction
✔ Supports equitable access to mastery for all learners

With AMMs, instructional intervention becomes seamless—and strategic.