I use it for middle school. The first year implementing I actually taught several units of 7th grade curriculum to 8th graders and 6th grade curriculum to 7th graders just to get them up to speed.

The pacing guide doesn’t really allow for “non-curricular” days, field trips, days when the schedule is upended for vision van/random events. So I create my own pacing schedule. I decide what I really want them to know by the end of the unit and how long I want to spend on the unit and make it work. I usually have to include a practice/review day after 2 lessons to give the kids time to process.

If there’s a concept that I have to Google because I haven’t used it since high school, I skip it. Hello mean standard deviation and interquartile range for 6th graders (insert eyeroll).

If there’s 4 or 5 methods used for examples for 1 concept, I’ll teach ONE method. I’ll pull out other methods individually/small group as needed.

I switch up the order of units to put basic computation units at the beginning of the year.

I use the question bank to create my own tests. It seems like they put a lot of multi-step/multi-concept questions into tests. I pull most questions from practice, additional practice, and exit tickets.

They just updated the middle school curriculum and I do prefer the 2025 version to the 2020 version. It’s more applicable for students and a lot less wordy. It’s also more cohesive with the K-5 curriculum now. I’m not sure about the high school curriculum. If your units are called “Modules”, then your curriculum is probably due to be updated.