Implementing our K–8 Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum
Essential resources for thoughtful planning.
It's important to plan ahead when bringing any curriculum into your classroom, school, or district. The good news? We've made things easy for you!
Our Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum is flexible and adaptable to a wide variety of school settings. Whether you're brand new to our lessons or a long-time user making the transition to our new curriculum, we have options for you.
Professional Development
Get confident with our new curriculum before you start. Our free, self-paced course walks you through everything you need to know. Whether you're a teacher implementing the curriculum in your classroom, or an administrator planning for school- or district-wide implementation, this course is a valuable first step.
Scope and Sequence
Our new curriculum features between 13 to 18 lessons per grade level (our original Digital Citizenship Curriculum has only six). Each new lesson is designed to be roughly 20 minutes in length, and collectively, the lessons for each grade level cover all of our six core topics. For best results, we recommend implementing the full curriculum throughout a school year.
Our scope and sequence document outlines this recommended plan.
Integration Guide
Our new curriculum adapts to your school's structure. Use it during library or media lab time, in core-subject classrooms, advisory periods, or as part of health and SEL programs – whatever fits your schools schedule and priorities. While we recommend year-long implementation, you can also teach the lessons individually or reorder them as needed.
Our Integration Guide offers a variety of examples for how to make things work in your school setting.
Transition Map
As the technologies in kids' lives has evolved over the years, so has our thinking about all of the digital literacy and citizenship topics we cover. We're not only covering many new and emerging issues, we've also re-designed how our new curriculum is structured.
If you've used our existing Digital Citizenship curriculum, then you're familiar with its longer lessons and shorter scope and sequence. Our updated Digital Literacy and Well-Being curriculum is a vastly expanded offering with shorter lessons that better fit into a busy classroom schedule (20 minutes each).
Use this helpful transition map to see how our updated approach covers familiar topics from our original curriculum.
