Creating, Designing, and Aligning Educational Content
About CSA Education
CSA Education is dedicated to efficiently delivering high-quality content and services. We pride ourselves on a client-centered approach, enabling us to meet and exceed expectations. CSA Education has a core group of in-house staff who are experts in their disciplines and in educational publishing. This talented US team has created and produced educational content for over 33 years in all subject areas for all grade levels. Paired with a team of hundreds of carefully vetted contractors, CSA is able to scale the team with the right expertise to fit the needs of any project.
Recent Projects
Foundations A–Z Decodable Books
Grades K–2
Adobe InDesign 
Project Brief
Write and edit decodable books with targeted phonics skills and identified high-frequency words. Books address a module question in the corresponding lesson plans and are a balance of fiction and nonfiction.
Highlights
- Every fourth book is in poem form to promote fluency and prosody.
- Books sets adhere to a systematic scope and sequence.
- CSA developed 84 decodable books.
NOTE: CSA’s Design team worked with illustrators and researched photos for the passage sets.
Into Math!® Open Territory Alignment
Grades K–12
Project Brief
Map the Learning Spine, a comprehensive set of mathematics skills, to both individual state standards and content, including both lessons and assessment items. This was a digital project.
Highlights
- Streamlined complex processes to increase productivity
- Collaborated with client to work around obstacles
- Delivered all components on time and often before deadline
STEAMM and College and Career Readiness
Grades 9–12
Project Brief
Align, review, and complete STEAMM curriculum for four courses and collaborate with College and Career Readiness teachers to develop a four-year curricular model, S&S, and unit plans.
Highlights
- Successfully integrated school mission and vision as well as several standard sets into both curriculums
- Teachers reported high satisfaction with both curriculum sets
DEI Review
Multiple Grades
Project Brief
Review content to ensure conscious efforts were made to reflect diversity in written work, images, and assessment items—taking into consideration the different cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious or secular backgrounds the audience may have, as well as the different ages, gender identity, sexual orientations, and disabilities—visible or not—of all people.
Highlights
- CSA staff accommodated quick turnarounds of content-heavy titles
Instructional Videos
Grades 1–6
Project Brief
Develop instructional videos by recording animations with supporting audio. Design PowerPoint presentations to step through each of the examples from the Student Edition.
Highlights
- Used screen recording software (Camtasia) to produce videos that included explanatory audio, text, graphics, and animations
- Animations enhanced the print graphics to provide step-by-step visual solutions
- Audio explained the examples as a teacher would in class
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