How Garland ISD Built Background Knowledge With Newsela Social Studies To Bring Lessons to Life for All Learners

July 1, 2024

Success Story: Garland ISD

Make social studies more relevant for every learner

Garland ISD needed social studies resources that could help teachers bring more context, relevance, and rigor to lessons across a large, diverse district. With Newsela Social Studies, teachers could build background knowledge, support bilingual instruction, and connect complex topics to students’ lives—all while aligning content to the district curriculum.

Outcome Summary

How Garland ISD brought lessons to life

Built stronger background knowledge

Students entered complex social studies topics with more of the context they needed to participate and go deeper.

Connected history to the present day

Teachers paired timely texts with historical context to help students see why social studies matters now.

Supported diverse learners

Leveled texts and many Spanish versions helped teachers keep instruction rigorous while meeting students where they were.

Made planning more manageable

By aligning Newsela Social Studies texts and activities to the district curriculum, leaders made teacher adoption easier.

Who Should Use This Resource?

District social studies leaders
Curriculum and instruction teams
School administrators supporting content-area literacy
Educators building background knowledge through inquiry-based instruction

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How Garland ISD Built Background Knowledge With Newsela Social Studies To Bring Lessons to Life for All Learners

Success Story: Garland ISD

Make social studies more relevant for every learner

Outcome Summary

How Garland ISD brought lessons to life

Built stronger background knowledge

Students entered complex social studies topics with more of the context they needed to participate and go deeper.

Connected history to the present day

Teachers paired timely texts with historical context to help students see why social studies matters now.

Supported diverse learners

Leveled texts and many Spanish versions helped teachers keep instruction rigorous while meeting students where they were.

Made planning more manageable

By aligning Newsela Social Studies texts and activities to the district curriculum, leaders made teacher adoption easier.

Who Should Use This Resource?

District social studies leaders
Curriculum and instruction teams
School administrators supporting content-area literacy
Educators building background knowledge through inquiry-based instruction

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