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The Centennial School District will ensure that all students will leave our K–12 education program as global learners ready to apply mathematical skills and to use mathematical problem-solving to make sense of the world around them with success and confidence.

The Centennial School District is committed to providing a rigorous, research-based, and standards-aligned mathematics curriculum that carefully sequences mathematical progressions in expertly crafted modules. The math curriculum prepares students to gain a deeper understanding of the why behind the numbers, with an emphasis on foundational skills and problem-solving. 

Centennial School District's curriculum is aligned with the Pennsylvania State Academic and Core Standards.

EUREKA MATH 

Eureka Math® is a comprehensive mathematics curriculum, with an intense focus on key concepts that layer over time, creating enduring knowledge. Students gain a complete body of math knowledge, not just a discrete set of skills. They use the same models and problem-solving methods from grade to grade, so math concepts stay with them, year after year.  The eight core Mathematical Practices are taught and reinforced throughout the program:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

4. Model with mathematics

5. Use appropriate tools strategically

6. Attend to precision

7. Look for and make use of structure

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Eureka Math is designed to ensure mastery of mathematical practices, concepts, and skills, and is aligned to the PA Core - Mathematics, Grades PreK-12 Standards.  

The Centennial School District will ensure that all students will leave our K–12 education program prepared to know and effectively utilize literacy and critical thinking skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening and to exhibit resiliency as they grow into effective readers, writers, communicators, and lifelong learners.  

In Centennial, we integrate Social Studies content into our Reading English Language Arts curriculum.  Through this integration, the district will ensure that all students are prepared to become American and global citizens who are tolerant of other cultures, religions, and beliefs based on the history and geography of the environment they inhabit.

In the elementary grades, students learn to read through focused instruction on foundational skills that build knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences to support accuracy in reading.  The Centennial School District is committed to providing comprehensive structured literacy instruction that focuses on the latest research and has proven to be effective for all students; this includes high-quality literacy instruction that is explicit, systematic, cumulative, diagnostic, and prescriptive.  The curriculum builds content knowledge and habits of mind with the ultimate goal of fostering students’ understanding and ability to read, learn, and write independently.

At the forefront of literacy instruction, valid and reliable Universal Screening assessments are necessary to determine which students may be at risk and may require a different learning path to the same destination: proficient reading.  

Centennial School District's curriculum is aligned with the Pennsylvania State Academic and Core Standards.

HEGGERTY PHONEMIC AWARENESS CURRICULUM

(K-2) The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum® is a systematic program focused on consistent and repeated phonemic awareness instruction which aids in the development of decoding and encoding skills.

WILSON FUNDATIONS

(K-3) Wilson Fundations® is a systematic program for critical foundation skills emphasizing: phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and handwriting.

GEODES

(K-2) GEODES® is a collection of accessible knowledge-building books for developing readers. Geodes Readables are a unique type of text in which specific decoding strategies are coupled with content and vocabulary. Geodes texts enable students to apply newly learned sound-spelling patterns and practice phonemic awareness and phonics in readable texts. Geodes texts are rich with facts and ideas that spark students’ curiosity about the world around them.

WIT & WISDOM INTEGRATED READING LANGUAGE ARTS/SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM

(K-5) Wit & Wisdom® is a comprehensive English Language Arts curriculum that incorporates reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Each Wit & Wisdom module centers on the study of rich and engaging texts, curated to build student knowledge of important ideas in the liberal arts and sciences. The carefully crafted resources help students build the knowledge and skills they need to be successful readers, exceptional writers, and effective communicators. The Integrated Reading Language Arts Curriculum is aligned to the PA Core - English Language Arts, Grades PreK-5 Standards.

Social Studies standards - civics and government, geography, economics, and history - are integrated within the Reading Language Arts Curriculum. The engaging Wit & Wisdom texts include novels, stories, poems, myths, science fiction, historical fiction, literary nonfiction, informational texts, visual art, videos, audio, and multimedia to provide student-friendly opportunities to build knowledge and think critically about past, present, and future.  For a full list of Social Studies standards by grade level, see the resources linked below.

• Academic Standards for Civics and Government (Pre-K-3)

• Academic Standards for Civics and Government (3-8)

• Academic Standards for Economics (Pre-K-3)

• Academic Standards for Economics (3-8)

• Academic Standards for Geography (Pre-K-3)

• Academic Standards for Geography (3-8)

• Academic Standards for History (Pre-K-3)

• Academic Standards for History (3-8)

The Centennial School District will ensure that all students will leave our K–12 education program able to understand and use scientific practices to deepen their understanding of the world around them, to form a scientific "conscience" so as to become good stewards of the Earth, and to grasp the ethical dimensions and role of science in human experience.

The Centennial School District is committed to providing a rigorous, research-based, curriculum aligned to the Pennsylvania Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards. The curriculum engages students in enduring hands-on experiences that lead to a deeper understanding of the natural and designed worlds and emphasizes meaningful experiences through participation in scientific practices.

Centennial School District's curriculum is aligned with the Pennsylvania State Academic and Core Standards.

FOSS NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE

(K-5) FOSS gives students the opportunity to think and act like scientists and engineers. FOSS® Next Generation™ for Pennsylvania presents science in a hands-on and engaging manner in which students learn about scientific practices through meaningful experiences.

For a full list of Science standards by grade level, see the resources linked here STEELS Standards Revised May 2023