Pacing Guides
Pacing Guides
Pacing guides help educators organize essential learning across time while preserving room for evidence, adjustment, and professional judgment.
Pacing Guide Resources
What Is a Pacing Guide?
A concise explanation of what pacing guides are, what they help educators decide, and what separates them from simple calendars.
Examples of Pacing Guides
Examples showing how learning priorities, sequence, assessment, and instructional time can be organized in different contexts.
Pacing Guide Templates
Flexible planning templates for organizing units, courses, semesters, and academic years.
How to Use a Pacing Guide
Practical guidance for interpreting, adapting, and revising a pacing guide in response to priorities and student learning.
If nothing else…
The essential principle: instructional time should serve learning rather than requiring learning to serve the schedule.
A pacing guide is most useful when it improves decisions about priority, sequence, time, and adjustment. It is least useful when remaining on schedule becomes more important than what students are learning.