Curriculum & Instruction

Alexander City Schools is committed to offering a curriculum that prepares students for success in both higher education and future careers. This curriculum emphasizes active and meaningful learning, allowing students to acquire knowledge and apply it in practical ways. It is designed to accommodate individual differences in needs, abilities, and interests while fostering connections across academic disciplines. Additionally, the curriculum promotes independent learning and challenges students to reach their highest potential. Grounded in research and effective practices, it incorporates high-quality instructional materials and benefits from the support and collaboration of faculty, parents, and the community.

Technology integration is an integral component within Alexander City Schools, and it serves as a catalyst for opportunity by providing equity in accessibility and prompting the deeper engagement necessary to improve learning outcomes. Technology-integrated learning experiences that are intentionally aligned to Alabama standards increase exposure and accessibility to the people, places, and things that students might not otherwise be exposed to.

Through continuous improvement efforts by faculty and staff, our students will be given the opportunity to develop and refine 21st Century skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity) through activities, such as authentic, real-world communication and collaboration through interactive video and open-ended questions that enable students to engage in the use of academic language and conversation within whole-group, small-group and individual activities; digital content, such as interactive mind maps, graphic organizers, and productivity apps that include live research, highlighting, annotating, and commenting features; live, interactive learning experiences with and from their peers as well as experts in various career fields and subject areas outside of the classroom and in various parts of the world; and collaborative projects that promote the development of problem solving and critical thinking skills as well as the empathy and soft skills needed in working with others.

Alexander City Schools takes seriously the fact that we are not preparing students for a 21st Century world, as they are already in that world. We collectively understand that we are called to equip them to efficiently navigate their existing world and innovate their future.

Alexander City Schools strives to ensure parents are aware of curriculum taught in our schools. We believe parent awareness and involvement is crucial to a student's academic success. Therefore, and per the recently passed Parents' Right to Know Act, Alexander City Schools has made the curricular framework for each grade or subject taught in our schools available to parents online.

We hope that parents and teachers will be more collaborative in support of all our young Wildcats! If a parent/guardian has any questions or desires more information, please contact the principal for the school.

Below are the principal names and emails.

Jim Pearson Elementary School, Mrs. Stephanie Brooks, stephanie.brooks@acsk12.net
Stephens Elementary School, Mrs. Lekishia Richardson, lrichardson@acsk12.net
Radney Elementary School, Dr. Johanna Morgan, johanna.morgan@acsk12.net
Alexander City Middle School, Dr. Jimmy Lee Thomas, jimmy.thomas@acsk12.net
Benjamin Russell High School, Mr. Shannon Benefield, sbenefield@acsk12.net