Our Curriculum
Elevating Education with Amplify CKLA and McGraw Hill: Empowering Excellence at Imagine Bella
At Bella Academy of Excellence, we use a curricular approach that meets each child where they are, accelerating their learning and refining their character. Our Acceleration Model guides teachers and students toward a high level of learning and strong character that results in engaged, productive citizens.
Our curriculum is characterized by challenging academic standards that lead to achievement for each student. Students expand prior knowledge through a spiraled thematic curriculum, focusing on inquiry and project-based applications of key concepts and universal ideas.
The curriculum provides students and teachers with world-class learning opportunities, with a focus on the following:
- Student-centered results
- Authentic and challenging materials and activities
- Critical thinking and creative problem solving
- Technology as a learning tool
- A hands-on, minds-on approach to learning
- Personal and global perspectives
- Reflection and exchange of ideas
- Interdisciplinary thematic units
We believe that engaging students in a rigorous standards-based curriculum is essential to student achievement and success.
READING CURRICULUM: Amplify Core knowledge language arts
We utilize the Imagine Regional Pacing Calendar to design units that are standards-aligned throughout the year using the Gradual Release of Responsibility (I do 5 minutes-we do 5 minutes- you do 15 min- share 5 min) model. 20-25 minutes of guided reading gives students the chance to apply the strategies they already know to the new text.
Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is the leading early literacy curriculum grounded in the Science of Reading. By combining knowledge-building and research-based foundational skills, our instruction guides educators in developing strong readers, writers and thinkers.
With a powerful online platform and a parallel Spanish language arts curriculum, Amplify CKLA provides a comprehensive solution for PreK-5 educators and students.
Grades K-3
- Amplify CKLA
- Boost Reading
- Wilson Language – Fundations
- Heggerty
Grades 4-6
- Amplify CKLA (4th-5th grade)
- Amplify ELA (6th grade)
- Boost Reading
- Wilson Language – Just Words
- K-5 My Math
- 6th Glencoe
- Science Fusion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Studies Weekly
- Real-world problem-solving readers (on level, approaching, beyond)
- My Learning Stations
- Individual manipulative kits (individual, classroom, magnetic, overhead, teacher toolkit)
- Classroom manipulative kit
- Targeted strategic intervention guide (online resource)
- Renaissance STAR benchmark assessments
- Renaissance CBM’s
- Boost Reading
Ohio State Assessments
