Arizona’s Preferred Curriculum

The Curriculum Information Portal serves as a valuable resource for parents, educators, school board members, and community members seeking to distinguish between curriculum that is academically centered and that which is permeated with political, ideological, and social and emotional dogma.

This portal emerged in response to recent discoveries of lesson plans, books, and surveys revealing a discernible trend within the education system. Academic literature is being employed as a manipulative tool to shape ideas, ideologies, values, and character in our students.

Several critical components contribute to the success of students, with curriculum standing out as one of the most pivotal. Curriculum, a blend of facts and opinions conveyed through a vast amount of information, requires careful consideration. We must be mindful of what our children consume, as it shapes the adults they become, influences their comprehension levels, and determines the knowledge they can demonstrate.

Curriculum tainted with social justice ideology deviates from providing students with genuine knowledge of facts and subject matters. Instead, it preoccupies students with irrelevant, unintellectual, and, in many cases, harmful content that affects their self-esteem, worldview, and academic achievement.

Here, you will find a compiled list categorizing curriculum into the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is essential for all users to conduct further research on the information provided. This portal serves as a starting point for invested parties to explore the educational content our children are exposed to.

It is no secret that Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is mandated through funding and law in the state of Arizona. Moreover, federal funding and grants not only dictate what schools should teach but also how it should be taught. This imposition compels states to adhere to a "one size fits all" solution, which is not conducive to the diverse needs of children. Federal legislations like "Common Core," "The Race to the Top," "No Child Left Behind," designed to simplify education, have unfortunately resulted in the dumbing down of our children, weakening our economy, and producing non-productive members of society. A partial remedy lies in enforcing a robust and effective curriculum.

• If you are a school board member, initiate the process of questioning your staff about the curriculum in use and cross-reference their responses with our list.

• For educators frustrated with classroom results and attributing it to the curriculum, this list serves as a guide to advocate for beneficial changes in your school.

• For parents unable to independently research different curricula, this tool facilitates a comparison with what your child learns at school. It helps navigate through what our committee deems safe and worthy, as opposed to harmful and marginal curriculum.

Accountability can only be achieved by identifying the adversary.

This list is designed for that purpose, and we hope you find it useful. 

To provide context to this project, recent years have illuminated three primary motivations driving curriculum companies:

1.    Money/Revenue.

2.    Participation in a coordinated effort to infuse social justice into all aspects of learning.

3.    "Dumbing down" students to increase "equity" and drive higher passing scores on standardized testing (from which they profit).

The motivations of curriculum companies, combined with the shift to digital learning, have impacted individuals, particularly parents. Textbooks, lesson plans, surveys, and reading materials have transitioned into thousands of webpages, forming a labyrinth difficult to navigate. Online sources, with their ever-changing nature, provide convenient hiding places for these companies.

We suggest that most curriculum published in the last 10 years, especially in the last few years, is saturated with common core, social emotional learning, and similar ideologies. We sincerely recommend avoiding newer curriculum and insisting on older versions whenever possible.

It is also highly advised to minimize the use of online curriculum. While we acknowledge the digital world we live in, the inability to fully grasp the entirety of online curriculum leads us to steer away from it.