Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
Learning Coach Guide Contents Part A Welcome Letter Dear Learning Coach, Thank you for partnering with CCA and investing in your learner’s education. This Learning Coach Guide is intended to help you support your learner in their Algebra 1 course. Within this guide, you will find the goals, components, and features of the online course. Please take time to read and review this information so you understand how to help your learner interact with all the course’s elements. The Learning Coach Guide also includes information about each of the units in this course. On each page of unit information, you will discover the following. The Unit Overview will tell you what the focus, content, and skills of the unit will be. The Unit Assessment section is a place for you and your learner to preview the graded work in the course. At the start of each unit, work with your learner to look at the unit in edio and find out which types of graded work are in this unit. Write them in the box and use it as a checklist. You can check off each one as your learner completes it. The Unit Materials section tells you the materials your learner will need to complete the activities in this unit. You will also find the materials list repeated within each lesson so that your learner has exactly what they need at the right time. The Unit Discussion Questions are optional questions that you may want to ask your learner during the unit to increase home and school connections about what your learner is studying. In the Unit Extras section, you may find optional activities, career connections, technology tips, and ideas to help your learner if they get stuck. CCA wishes you and your learner a terrific school year! Supporting Your Learner Your role as a Learning Coach is very important. Here are a few ways you can help your learner do their very best in the course. Help your learner know what time guided or live class instruction is scheduled for, and prompt them to attend sessions or watch recordings. Remember, it is okay for your learner to get stuck. Learning new material takes time. Encourage them to take breaks, keep trying, and even ask the teacher for help. Help your learner navigate technology. That may mean helping them type information or upload work into edio. Always encourage your learner to do their very best. Review the course syllabus for your learner’s course. Maintain communication with your learner’s teacher. Part B Course Information Part B: Course Information Course Goals In Algebra 1, your learner will use the foundations they learned in middle school math to focus on multiple representations of lines and functions that are not lines. By the end of the year, your learner will be able to: solve equations and inequalities of lines; graph lines and inequalities; write functions of lines and inequalities; graph, solve, and write systems of lines and inequalities; graph and solve quadratic equations; and analyze one- and two-variable statistics. An emphasis on using algebraic techniques to solve problems and represent real-world situations will be evident in this course. This course is a foundational course to ensure your learner’s success in all future math courses. Course Format Lesson Components: Each day, your learner will spend 45 to 60 minutes completing a math lesson. Some days may take less time, while other days may take a little more time. The lesson does not need to be completed in one sitting. Encourage your learner to take short breaks as they need. This section will help you to understand how your learner’s course is structured in edio. Lesson Bundling: A lesson bundle is a collection of lessons that stack up to equal one full class period. On some days, learners will see bundles, such as a Knowledge Check and the daily lesson or the combination of a Quiz Review and Quiz. In Algebra 1, learners will see a specific bundle of lessons within one day. Common Bundling in Algebra 1: Warm Up: At the beginning of nearly all math lessons, learners will begin with a Warm Up. The Warm Up is meant to help learners practice math fluency and understanding of numbers. The Warm Up may include math thinking routines or a review of prior learning. Explore: This section of the lesson is the new learning for the day. Learners are exposed to vocabulary, lesson instruction, and practice. Practice or Practice and Skill Builder: Most days will include a Practice section or a Practice and Skill Builder section. Practice: Practice problems will be a continuation of the content taught within the Explore section. These practice problems give learners time to practice new skills and review previously learned math concepts. Skill Builder: Within this section, learners are offered the choice of activities, often hands-on or based on digital applications, to extend their understanding of past and present math concepts. Course Structure: Within the lesson bundles, there are different components your learner will interact with. These components will not be used every day. 1. Getting Started Lesson: There is one Getting Started lesson in this course. It can be found on Day 1 of Unit 1. This lesson includes important information about the course and contact information for your teacher. 2. Unit Overview: Each unit will include a unit overview. This describes what your learner will learn in the unit and how many assessments the unit will have. 3. Prep for Success: At the beginning of each unit, your learner will find a Prep for Success. This component offers learners tips to be successful in the course, such as study tips, important software information, safety reminders, and more. 4. Knowledge Check: There will be one Knowledge Check in each unit. The Knowledge Check is designed to check prior learning and understanding about key skills and concepts that will be taught in the unit. The Knowledge Check is not a graded assessment. Each lesson has its own components to help guide your learner through the lesson. 1. Lesson Overview: At the beginning of every lesson, your learner will see the lesson overview. This section contains lesson objectives, lesson vocabulary, materials your learner will need for the lesson, and the suggested lesson length. 2. Engage: The first section of the lesson is Engage. In this section, learners will be introduced to the lesson by making a connection to past and present knowledge and will get ready for the lesson’s instruction. 3. Discover: New content and instruction is presented in the Discover section. Your learner will interact with the lesson content through defined vocabulary terms, videos, audio, and Pause and Think activities. Your learner will be able to practice and answer questions as they work through the lesson. 4. Show: Learners will demonstrate what they have learned in the lesson through a series of practice questions. 5. Summary (9–12): This section recaps the day’s objectives and prepares learners for a future lesson or assessment. Assessment Formats: The course includes assignments and projects. These graded assignments allow your learner to show what they have learned and apply their new skills. All CCA assignments and projects include these components. 1. Assessment Overview: At the beginning of each assessment, your learner will see the assessment overview. This section contains the goals of the assessment, materials your learner will need, length of the assessment, and directions for completion. 2. Plan: In the Plan section, learners will be introduced to the assignment or project. Learners may be provided with a review of content from the previous lessons, strategies for completing the activity, graphic organizers, and grading rubrics. 3. Do: Learners put their plan into action and work to complete the assignment or project successfully. This section also provides the grading expectations and/or rubric the teacher will use to grade the work. 4. Reflect: In Reflect, learners will think back to the work they completed. They will reflect upon the experience and analyze how well they completed the task. These moments of reflection are important and allow learners to think about their learning and their work habits. In addition to assignments and projects, this course also includes quizzes, tests, and exams. Quiz Review: Before a quiz, learners will have the opportunity to review the content they will be assessed on in a quiz. Quiz: A quiz may be given at the end of a topic or the end of a unit. A quiz will usually be worth 10–15 points. Test Review: Before a test, learners will have the opportunity to review the content they will be assessed on in the test. Test: A test will assess learning across topics or at the end of a unit. A test is usually worth 25–50 points. Course Features This course includes and uses unique features such as: GeoGebra: GeoGebra is a digital math tool learners can use to access a free online scientific, graphing, or CAS calculator and virtual math interactives. Learners may use the GeoGebra calculators or interactives to solve problems or produce graphical representations as needed. Math Routines: Math lessons typically start with a Warm Up section using math routines to help learners get ready for the day’s lesson or provide opportunities to build number sense and procedural fluency. Math routines focus on strengthening learners’ skills and confidence in listening and speaking about math. Discourse: This is communication between learners, peers, and teachers in the classroom. Discourse includes the academic conversation that comes from learners actively engaging in a lesson. Math Lesson Companion: Learners will receive a math notebook in which they can answer questions, take notes, and complete activities and extra practice problems that support the online lessons. Extra Practice Workbook: The Extra Practice Workbook is a resource for learners to complete extra practice problems related to a lesson. Part C Unit Information Part C: Unit Information One-Variable Statistics Unit Overview Statistics allows your learner to interpret, utilize and collect data to make decisions and predictions. In this unit your learner will explore different types of data, data representations and how to interpret and use measures of center and variability. Technology (GeoGebra) will be used for exploration to help your learner construct data displays and summary statistics. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions In what ways are statistics in our lives? What did you like about this unit? What was a challenge for you in this unit? Unit Notables In grades 6 – 8, learners used data displays as a way to summarize data. These displays are revisited in the unit, but with a focus on interpretation. This unit helps to bridge the gap between middle and high school math. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Linear Equations and Inequalities Unit Overview Equations can be used to model real world scenarios to help your learner make predictions, plan for the future or reveal important information and trends. In this unit your learner will explore writing, solving, and graphing linear equations and inequalities. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions Can you think of ways we use linear equations and/or inequalities in our lives? How would you teach someone about linear equations? What did you like about this unit? Unit Notables This unit relies on previous knowledge of variables, writing expressions, percentages, solving equations, graphing in the coordinate plane, and slope intercept form. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview In this unit your learner will explore systems of equations, two (or more) equations together that give the constraints of a problem. Some problems require two (or more) equations in order to solve. Systems of equations can be manipulated and graphed in order to identify conditions that satisfy all constraints in a scenario. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions When are systems of equations useful in everyday life? What is your preferred method of solving a system of equations? Why? What was most challenging about this unit? Unit Notables This unit builds on the previous unit by adding additional equations and inequalities to make a system. Ensure that your learner is able to use GeoGebra to graph lines, inequalities, and systems. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview Learners will explore the probability of both compound and simple events along with the fundamental counting principle. In this unit your learner will use experimental and theoretical probability, explore the fundamental counting principle, and calculate the likelihood of one (or more) events occurring. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions When in your daily life might you need to determine the likelihood of something happening? Aside from math, in what other subjects might knowing about probability be helpful? What was most challenging about this unit? Unit Notables Your learner will see how experimental and theoretical probability and the likelihood of an event happening is used in everyday life. Ensure that your learner is able to use GeoGebra to graph lines, inequalities, and systems. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview In this unit your learner will explore real world scenarios that often have multiple variables that effect the results and will analyze data for trends and patterns using scatter plots. By establishing a line of fit, learners can make predictions for given scenarios and identify causal relationships. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions How can scatter plots be used to determine relationships between data values and recognize trends? Why is the correlation coefficient important? Did you enjoy the project in this unit? Why or why not? Unit Notables This unit helps your learner understand how and where the analysis of data is relevant in their everyday life. Being able to read and interact with data, graphs, and charts is an important life skill. Ensure that your learner is able to use GeoGebra to create tables, graphs, and charts. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview Functions are relationships where each input has only one output. In this unit your learner will explore functions to model real world scenarios, using function notation to describe rules and constraints, the domain and range of functions, inverse functions, and functions with recognizable shapes (linear, piecewise, and absolute value functions). Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions Can you think of examples of functions that appear in everyday life? What are inverse functions and how can they be used to solve different scenarios? What did you find challenging about this unit? Unit Notables Your learner will expand and deepen their understanding of functions and develop new knowledge and skills for communicating about functions. It is important that your learner will need to be able to plot points on x– and y–axis and interpret data based on graphs. Ensure that your learner is able to use GeoGebra to create tables, graphs, and charts. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview Exponents and radicals are fundamental mathematical concepts that play a crucial role in your learner’s algebraic journey. Exponents provide a convenient and shorthand method for expressing repeated multiplication. On the other hand, radicals are the inverse of exponents. Think of it as addition is to subtraction, and multiplication is to division. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions Why do you rationalize the denominator of a fraction? What did you find interesting or unexpected about this unit? Unit Notables Your learner may confuse the properties and manipulation of rational functions and simplifying expressions especially in handling non-integer exponents, and will need to grasp the idea of inverse operations. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview Quadratic functions are equations in the form that result in a parabola when graphed. These functions model the trajectory of rockets and other real-world scenarios. In this unit your learner will build an understanding of quadratic equations and their graph, explore different forms of quadratic equations, and use quadratic equations to model real world scenarios. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions How well do you understand the difference in linear, quadratic, and exponential growth? Can you think of any real-world examples of quadratic functions outside the ones covered in the lesson? What was most challenging about this unit? Unit Notables Your learner will observe that eventually quadratic patterns grow more quickly than linear patterns but more slowly than exponential patterns. Your learner may struggle with interpreting function behavior in real-world contexts, selecting appropriate models, and accurately representing relationships between quantities. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None Unit Overview Like linear equations, quadratic equations can be solved using different methods and by analyzing the structure of the equations. In this unit your learner will explore the solutions to quadratic equations, factor quadratic equations, and use different method (like completing the square and the quadratic formula) to solve quadratic equations. Unit Assessments Quiz _________________________ Test _________________________ Assignment ________________ Project _____________________ Have your learner identify which assessment type they see in their unit. Check all that apply. Unit Discussion Questions When and why are quadratic equations used to model scenarios? What methods are you able to use to solve problems in this unit? What are some ways you can memorize the quadratic formula? Unit Notables In this unit, your learner will learn that roots, zeros, and factors are some forms of the solutions of a quadratic equation. Graphically, the solution occurs when a quadratic graph crosses the x–axis. Your learner will explore the quadratic formula, which can be used to solve any quadratic function. Kit Materials Curriculum Kit Algebra 1 Lesson Companion Algebra 1 Extra Practice Workbook Household Materials None
Enrolling Now for 2026-27 School Year.
