We Support Educators in Developing Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices
"2 for 2": Take 2 minutes on Opus, save yourself 2 hours of lesson planning time
- Create a Positive Teaching & Learning Experience for Remedial, At Level and High Achieving Students
- Elevate Your Students’ Engagement and Proficiency with ELA, Literacy, Humanities, Social Studies, History, Civics, and Cross-Curricular Content
- Encourage Teachers to Make Relatable Correlations by Incorporating Music from Various Genres and Thought Provoking Anchor Text
- Provide Innovative Assessments to Ensure Student Learning and Growth
- Offer Complete Grade Level (6-12), National and State Standards Aligned, Lesson Plans In Just 2 Minutes
Engage your students with Relatable, Rigorous, and Accessible Critical Thinking Literacy Lessons!
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HOW IT WORKS
A Simple Process for Unlimited Culturally Responsive Lesson Plans
1. Choose A Literary Concept or Theme
e.g. diction, or devices like personification, metaphor
2. Pair with Text from Syllabus
The literary texts from your curriculum
3. Choose Matching Music
Via our algorithm, match music to your learning objectives (from inputs #1 & #2)
4. Add Vocabulary & Review your Lesson Plan
Auto-generated slide deck includes includes learning objectives, assessments, and audiovisual
5. Download & Present
Custom Google Docs that you can save and/or share your presentation
6. Save All of Your Lessons
Store them and access them at any time
IMPACT
We work to improve the following metrics:
Student Weekly Performance
Classroom Engagement
Reduction of Teacher Prep Hours
Increased Hours of Student Reading
PHILOSOPHY
Words Liive exists to bring 2/3rds of American students to grade-level reading proficiency by the year 2040!
TESTIMONIALS
Words Liive is a phenomenal resource for any teacher instructing in English Language Arts, History, Civics, or Social Studies. Not only have they developed a program that has helped teachers blend the Cultural Arts into their traditional curriculum, but the new platform actually responds to students’ cultural preferences, in real-time!From Friendship Public Charter School in Washington, DC
With a keen focus on the performance of my students, Sage sought to provide a custom experience for my lesson plans. I was able to directly request additional music for my next lesson on 'Point of View'. Within one day, they made another ancillary lesson available on the platform. This time, the song was Lupe Fiasco’s song He Say, She Say. The perfect content addition for my students! At this point, I realized that using the Words Liive beta was in fact a feasible tool and a great method of augmenting my existing lesson plans.From Crossroads Preparatory Academy in Kansas City, MO
As a full-time mother raising boys in our nation’s capital, I have spent a great deal of time and resources seeking out opportunities that I felt would enhance their academic and cultural development in our great city. Words Liive, I was pretty sure, would interest my hip-hop loving teenager, but I had no idea his younger brother would enjoy it as much as he did. The boys came home every afternoon sharing things they’d learned from the Words Liive class. The most exciting part for me was hearing my reluctant reading teen linking rap lyrics to historical facts and texts. He developed an interest in history and literature that he didn’t have before! And I’m fairly certain that Words Liive’s teaching style contributed greatly to this spark that had been lit. From a parent in Washington, DC
IN THE NEWS
Harvard Innovation Labs 2020 – 2021 Launch Lab Accelerator Cohort
Article: Harvard Innovation Labs
October 22, 2020
DC edtech startup Words Liive is in the running for a $1M pitch competition
Article: Technical.ly
May 21, 2021
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Article: Business Insider
January 29, 2021