Starting with the end in mind
We create each engaging unit using Backward Design, to ensure all learning connects with unit goals, and we teach you how to do the same.
Real language for real students
Wayside makes language learning meaningful, so your students connect what they learn in the classroom with how they use it in the world.
Additional Languages
Each program is designed to maximize your learners' ability to effectively communicate in the target language.
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Ownership of learning with can-do statements
Unit-embedded communicative and intercultural can-do statements help learners set goals and assess their own progress. -
Tasks and activities for proficient communication
The Instructional Strategies Toolkit contains more than 200 ideas for tasks and activities in the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication. -
Interacting with authentic resources
Abundant video, audio, and text resources from target language cultures provide learners with naturally embedded, meaningful input. -
Showing what they can do with what they have learned
Formative and summative (IPAs) performance assessments showcase students' increased communicative abilities and provide feedback with analytic growth, holistic, summative IPA, and single-point rubrics. -
Interculturality over cultural facts
Students make cultural connections and comparisons between target language cultures and their own lives.
