Make OpenSciEd classroom-ready.Get your weekends back.
Take any OpenSciEd unit and make it classroom-ready in minutes. Keep the phenomena, storylines, and unit structure your district adopted — add the content depth, assessments, scaffolding, and differentiation your students need. Built for middle school science teachers (grades 6–8).
Keep the OpenSciEd approach. Teach with rigor.
The OpenSciEd phenomenon-based approach is powerful. Almanack makes it work in your classroom.
Adapt
Take any OpenSciEd unit and deepen the content coverage. Phenomena and storylines preserved; vocabulary, direct instruction, and scaffolding woven in.
Differentiate
Every lesson in every version your classroom needs — IEP accommodations, gifted extensions, ELL support — all aligned to the same OSE standard.
Plan
Your OpenSciEd units mapped against your actual calendar and grading policy. Pacing that fits the school year; assessments that produce gradebook-ready letter grades.
What Almanack adds to OpenSciEd
Built around the adaptations every OSE teacher ends up making — now ready in minutes instead of months.
Assessments that map to grades
NGSS-aligned assessments tied to OpenSciEd unit structure, mapped to letter grades, and written for clarity. Defensible evidence for every report card — without building the assessments from scratch.
Preserves: OSE unit phenomena and DQBs
Lessons with full content depth
Take any OpenSciEd unit and get a version with full content coverage. Vocabulary and direct instruction woven into the inquiry model, pacing that fits your class time. The OpenSciEd unit structure stays intact; the lessons are sized for your students.
Preserves: Storylines, phenomena, 3D structure
Pre-reading scaffolds for multilingual learners and striving readers
Pre-reading materials, vocabulary instruction, and foundational context built into every lesson — so every student can participate in OpenSciEd's discussion-rich format, regardless of reading level or background knowledge.
Preserves: OSE phenomena as the hook
Differentiation for every student in the room
One lesson, automatically adapted across the full range of your classroom — IEP accommodations, gifted extensions, and ELL scaffolding, all aligned to the same OSE learning goals.
Preserves: OSE unit learning goals
Pacing that fits your real calendar
Map your OpenSciEd units against your actual school year. See where the trade-offs are, decide what to keep and cut, and build a plan that fits your calendar.
Preserves: OSE storyline continuity
You're already adapting OSE. We make it minutes.
Every OpenSciEd teacher customizes — slides, assessments, vocabulary, pacing. Almanack automates that adaptation while keeping the OpenSciEd unit structure intact.
Most OSE teachers describe the same arc: Year 1, attempt fidelity. Year 2, modify heavily. Year 3, teach your own curriculum with OSE labels. Almanack gives you that Year 3 version on Day 1.
What Almanack adds:
- Assessments that produce defensible letter grades
- Vocabulary and background knowledge built into every unit
- Pacing restructured around your real calendar
- IEP, gifted, and ELL versions of every activity
- State-test-aligned questions alongside OSE inquiry tasks
- Pre-reading scaffolds for multilingual learners and striving readers
What teachers and research say
“As a Curriculum Coordinator, I needed a solution that could support teachers across multiple subjects, grades, and learning needs—instantly. Almanack delivers. Our teachers now spend minutes, not hours, preparing lessons. It's transformed planning from a burden into something quick and actually enjoyable.”
Sharon Chasse, M.Ed.
Curriculum Coordinator
Maine, USA
155 OSE teachers
across 34 states identified assessment and feedback at scale as the prime opportunity for AI-driven innovation in OpenSciEd implementation.
Digital Promise practitioner study, 2024
“Most OSE teachers describe the same arc: Year 1, attempt fidelity. Year 2, modify heavily. Year 3, teach their own curriculum with OSE labels for compliance.”
Almanack gives you that Year 3 version on Day 1.
Free access. Real impact. We need your feedback.
What you get
- Full access to Almanack's OpenSciEd features during the beta
- Direct line to the team to shape what we build next
- Early access to new features before general release
- Priority support throughout the beta period
What we ask
- One optional 20-minute conversation with our team
- Honest feedback on what's working and what isn't
We're accepting a limited first cohort. Requests are reviewed in the order they arrive.
Request a beta invite
Tell us about your OSE context. We use this to prioritize the cohort and make sure Almanack fits your situation.
Frequently asked questions
Is Almanack a replacement for OpenSciEd?
No. Almanack works alongside OpenSciEd — preserving the phenomena, storylines, and unit structure your district adopted. Almanack adds the implementation layer on top: assessments mapped to letter grades, scaffolded content for every reading level, differentiated activities, and pacing that fits your calendar. The OpenSciEd framework stays intact; the lessons are sized for your students.
What grade bands and subjects does the beta cover?
This beta is for middle school teachers (grades 6–8). High school (biology, chemistry, physics) and elementary (K–5) are on the roadmap but aren't part of this cohort. You can still request an invite if you teach outside middle school — we'll follow up when your grade band opens.
Do I need buy-in from my department or admin?
No. Almanack is a teacher tool — you can use it on your own. The output aligns with OSE unit labels and structure, so your modifications will pass any fidelity review. That said, the more teachers using it in a department, the better the results.
Is our data shared with OpenSciEd, the Gates Foundation, or any curriculum body?
Never. Your data is yours. We do not share, sell, or license any teacher or student information to OpenSciEd or any third party. See our full privacy policy at almanack.ai/privacy.
How long does the beta run?
We expect the beta to run for approximately 8–12 weeks. Beta participants get free access throughout and will be given the option to continue at a discounted rate when the beta closes.
I already use Almanack. Can I still join?
Absolutely — the OSE features are being built as a dedicated integration on top of your existing Almanack account. Existing users will get priority in the cohort.
Teach OpenSciEd the way you always wanted to.
Beta invitations open for the next cohort. Free access, direct line to the team.
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