For district curriculum & instructional materials offices
63+
School districts using the curriculum
100,000+
Students served each year
500+
Schools nationwide
35
Weeks of lessons per grade level
Our Curriculum
Our Spanish curriculum is designed for district adoption and individual school purchases — fully developed, deeply pedagogical, and customizable to your community’s instructional priorities and student needs. Built around how children actually learn language, our program supports consistent implementation across campuses and classrooms.
Grades K–5
Elementary learners build Spanish through movement, visuals, manipulatives, music, stories, and meaningful interaction—developing comprehension, confidence, and an increasingly strong foundation for communication.
Grades 6–8
Staffing
You receive the same complete curriculum, resources, student materials, training, and support—plus instruction from our Spanish teaching team.
We build the delivery model around your schedule and staffing needs, with live virtual, hybrid, or flexible asynchronous options available.
No in-person Spanish teacher required.
Whether your district has an in-person Spanish teacher or needs us to provide instruction, students receive the same cohesive scope and sequence, curriculum, and learning materials. The difference is simply who delivers the instruction.
Our approach
Rather than centering instruction on vocabulary memorization and isolated grammar practice, students get abundant Spanish they can understand, then use what they know to communicate.
Students hear and see Spanish they can understand through stories, visuals, conversation, movement, and teacher interaction, from the first week.
Language grows through meaningful exposure and communication. Grammar and vocabulary support that work; they don’t drive the lesson.
People, places, traditions, and perspectives of the Spanish-speaking world are woven into the lessons, not saved for a unit at the end of the year.
The K–8 pathway
A clear progression from early exposure through a Spanish 1 equivalent, so students aren’t starting over between elementary and middle school.
K–2
Stories, gestures, visuals, songs, and routine. Strong listening first; short responses when students are ready.
3–5
Longer stories, conversation, interpretive listening and reading, with culture integrated throughout.
6
7
First half of a high-school-level Spanish 1 sequence, same acquisition approach.
8
Completes Spanish 1. Students leave middle school ready for high school Spanish with proficiency, not vocabulary lists.
Included with every adoption
A complete curriculum ecosystem, resources, student materials, digital tools, tangibles, assessments, training, and ongoing support for every grade level you adopt.
Comprehensive lesson plans
Scope, sequence & pacing
Teacher & student materials
Assessment & progress monitoring
Instructional resources for teachers
Digital student practice
Teacher portal
Implementation, PD & ongoing support
Bonus & supplemental resources
Family communication resources
Pricing
Standards Alignment
Our curriculum is intentionally aligned to national world language standards, with clear grade-level scope and sequence, pacing guidance, proficiency goals, and documented alignment to support curriculum review and implementation.
Alignment documentation can also be customized to your state or district standards as part of the adoption process.
For IB schools, our curriculum supports language learning within the PYP and MYP frameworks, with resources to help schools connect Spanish instruction to their existing Programme of Inquiry (POI), units of inquiry, concepts, and approaches to learning.
IB-specific curriculum mapping and implementation resources are available for coordinators and language teams.
“Our district offers Spanish in all 25 elementary schools and Sarah’s Spanish School makes this possible. The curriculum is the best we have ever had.”
Angela Lauridsen
Program Coordinator
Kids, Teens and Adults
Get Started
Every school and district has different goals, schedules, staffing, and students. We’ll learn about your current language program, staffing, schedule, grade levels, and goals.
From there, we’ll walk you through the curriculum, share samples and portal access, and work with your team to determine the grade levels, delivery model, and implementation plan that make the most sense.
Questions from curriculum offices
Downloads for curriculum committees
Open these on your own time. If your committee needs a different grade, an assessment sample, or implementation detail we haven’t posted, email sarah@sarahsspanishschool.com and you’ll get it directly.
Full open-and-go sample: butterfly life cycle lesson with opening ritual, movement game, input activity, and sorting.
Food preferences lesson: target structures, weird food slideshow, and partner matching in Spanish.
Continents trivia and oceans map work with directional language and a fill-in-the-map activity.
Public overview for committees: approach, K–2 Foundation / 3–5 Expansion, banding, and how samples map. Full S&S on request.
Full unit lists for Grade 7 (Spanish 1A) and Grade 8 (Spanish 1B), proficiency progression, and cultural / IB notes.
Approach, what schools receive, and flexible staffing in one short leave-behind.
Staffing models, HCPS proof points, and how to book a 15-minute scoping call. Built for a committee packet.
Foundation through Spanish 1B: the sequence from early exposure to a high-school-ready pathway.
Next step
We’ll walk through the curriculum and the teacher portal, then send sample materials formatted for your committee. No pitch. Your options and a price.
Sarah’s Spanish School · K–8 Spanish, French and ASL curriculum for school districts.
K–5 and 6–8 may be adopted separately or together. Where immersive learning meets curriculum needs.
