The teachers, administrators, and staff of Sayre Area School District strive to provide all students with learning experiences that challenge their academic abilities and meet their varying needs as twenty-first century learners.  In order to create these learning experiences for our students, teachers, administrators, and other professional staff work collaboratively to regularly design, review, and revise course-specific curriculums and assessments.  The curriculums utilized by our teachers are developed based on Pennsylvania Common Core standards (PACC), and offer a progression of developmentally appropriate skills, strategies, and content across grade levels and subject areas.
For questions pertaining to Sayre Area School District’s curriculum, please contact the SASD Administration office.

As the needs of our students continue to change and evolve from year to year, as do grade-level and course-specific curriculums teachers utilize to meet students’ differing needs in their classrooms.  To do this, Sayre Area School District follows a “Cycle of Curriculum” that ensures the regular evaluation and revision of curriculums at all grade levels.  By following the “Cycle of Curriculum,” teachers, administrators, and other district professional staff are ensuring that each of the curricula in place throughout the school district are up-to-date and relevant to the needs of our twenty-first century learners.

The foundation of all learning is rooted in literacy skills and strategies.  Learners must have the ability to strategically read a variety of texts, as well as effectively write to appropriately express their understanding of those texts and their content.  To support our students’ development of these necessary skills and strategies, Sayre Area School District utilizes a balanced literacy approach to teaching literacy skills to our students.  

Below you will find our district’s “Balanced Literacy Framework,” which includes SASD’s philosophy to teaching and learning literacy, as well as an outline of how each grade level is expected to utilize the framework to best meet the literacy needs of all students.  The framework is used by all English Language Arts (ELA) teachers in kindergarten through eighth grade, and will continue to evolve as the needs of our students change over the course of each new school year.

SASD Balanced Literacy Framework

Teachers at Snyder Elementary work collaboratively to create, review, and revise curriculums for all subject areas they teach in their classrooms.  These curriculums are PACC standards-based and are paired with teacher-reviewed textbooks and materials that help effectively teach the content in each area.

 The following subjects are taught at the elementary level (K-6):

• Literacy: Reading, Writing, Phonics (K-2), Word Work (3-6), Fountas and Pinnell Literacy

• Math, Go Math!

• Science

• Social Studies, K-6 Social Studies

• Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

• Special Areas: Art, Health, Library, Music, Physical Education

• Career Readiness (through Guidance Department)

• Title One, TITLE I DOCUMENTS

 The following extra curricular areas are available to students at the elementary level:

• Band (5th & 6th)

• Chorus (5th & 6th)

• Student Council (5th & 6th)

 *As a “1-to-1” school district that provides all students K-12 with a personal technology device, technology instruction in Sayre Area School District is embedded into regular instruction throughout the school day.

The teachers of Sayre Area Jr./Sr. High School strive to provide our high school students with a wide variety of courses that allow them to explore different areas of learning based on their interests and future, post-secondary paths.  To see a list of courses that are offered at each grade level, choose the “Curriculum Guides” attached below.  Each of the “Curriculum Guides” outline the courses available at each grade level, the number of credits required to officially complete each grade level, and a brief description of the available courses.

 In addition to the courses offered by our teachers, Sayre Area School District also maintains partnerships with neighboring institutions in order to offer our high school students more specialized courses tailored to their interests and future goals.  

• Corning Community College (CCC: Select SHS teachers have become certified to teach ACE-credit courses.  By taking these free courses, students have the opportunity to be dual enrolled and receive college credits while completing courses needed to graduate from high school.

• Keystone College (KC): In addition to the free college courses taught and offered by our teachers through CCC, a variety of additional college courses are also offered in our high school through Keystone College.  Students enrolled in certain courses in our high school have the option to pay a small tuition fee ($300 per course) to receive college credit and high school credit by the end of the semester.  

• Northern Tier Career Center (NTCC): Offering a wide range of courses for a variety of post-secondary trades, NTCC allows high school students the opportunity to develop career-specific skills and even receive specialized certifications before graduating from high school.

Click here to access  our Guidance Page.

Click here to access the most current Jr. High Curriculum Guide

Click here to access the most current Sr. High Curriculum Guides