Be a Hero: Revolutionize Your Classroom!

Ditch the textbook – digitize your district and save millions of dollars in curriculum and textbook costs, while engaging your 21st century learners with CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook®.
CICERO is the featured classroom resource from CICERO Systems’ line of Common Core professional development products and services. CICERO is an award-winning digital resource consisting of lesson plans, primary sources, standards, rubrics, assessments, classroom activities, videos, games, interactive maps, and more.
Developed by university professors and technology specialists, CICERO is the quintessential teacher’s tool. CICERO covers U.S. History ranging from 600 B.C. to the present day, providing teachers with hundreds of lessons and activities at the middle and high school levels, all designed to enhance the teaching experience and improve student achievement. Developed from the American Institute for History Education’s highly acclaimed Liberty Fellowship® grant program, CICERO offers abundant educational resources, teaching methods and professional development tools; all laced in rich historical content designed to meet Common Core and state standards.
Common Core Teaching Strategies
Every unit within CICERO is laced with COMMON CORE methods and strategies.The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.
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Teacher Common Core and TEKS Professional Development
CICERO Systems is a division of the American Institute for History Education. CICERO’s philosophy and methodology help revolutionize teaching substantive content not only by helping teachers become better teachers, but also by helping students learn history through engaging 21st technology, available online, anytime, virtually anywhere.CICERO Systems offers extensive Common Core and TEKS professional development programs designed to increase teacher’s content knowledge and significantly increase their students’ academic success. CICERO offers workshops, seminars, colloquia, summer institutes and discussions; live onsite, live online, or on-demand.
Common Core TEKS Classroom Resources Include:
- Over 30 Common Core teacher training videos and accompanying PowerPoints with ready-to-use classroom materials:
- Close reading of informational text
- Comparing informational texts
- Contextualizing informational text
- Developing historical thinking
- Classroom activities including dialogues, literature connections, graph readings, webquests, informational texts, hero biographies and more, all linked to Common Core and TEKS standards
- Over 70 videos:
- Eyewitness accounts
- Historic Newsreels
- First-person portrayals
- Documentaries and historic site tours
- Professor/historian interviews
- Historical content and professional development by university historians for history and literature teachers
- Primary sources including landmark documents, speeches, letters and memorials
- Period-related audio clips, music and podcasts
- Images galleries of people, events, political cartoons and art
- Historical event maps
- Classroom PowerPoint presentations
- Interactive timelines
- Content-based readings and informational texts