Every instructional decision has a purpose.
Every lesson is designed to reduce uncertainty for teachers and create better learning conditions for students.
Our Story
A Special Educator’s Solution to a Special Educator’s Problem
For more than 40 years, Rosanne Manus has helped over 2,000 students with learning barriers make academic progress through customized, science-based curriculums developed and refined in the classrooms of her school, Manus Academy, and her after-school tutoring services.
What began as a solution for her own staff has become a complete instructional system for special educators who want to spend less time adapting lessons and more time helping students succeed.
“Compared to other curriculum I have used over the years, I can honestly say that Manus Curriculums has saved me valuable time by preventing the need to reteach skills or ‘figure it out’ on my own. I’m so grateful for this!”
Rosanne Manus, Founder
It started with a challenge every special educator knows.
Early in my special education teaching career, I had to work long hours to individualize instruction for each of my students who had varying levels of achievement and a wide range of neurodevelopmental barriers. There were no practical tools available then to efficiently customize instruction.
When I started my after-school tutoring service for students with learning barriers and later my school, Manus Academy, this challenge of constantly creating individualized lessons increased exponentially when I had to prepare lessons for all my teaching staff. I soon realized that I had to build a long-term solution to help students flourish and enable my teaching staff to organize instruction efficiently.
This necessity began a decades-long process of heavy research, attending special educational conferences, hiring consultants and developing, testing and refining curriculums. In these years of development and revision, I built curriculums that were far more comprehensive, in-depth and explicit than other teaching programs on the market.
Today, the same curriculums are available to educators around the world.
Rosanne Manus, Founder of Manus Curriculums
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Our philosophy
What guides every curriculum we create.
Four principles shape every placement test, lesson script and progress report we write. They come directly from four decades of teaching students with learning barriers, and they are the reason our curriculums work the way they do.
Teachers deserve practical tools.
We believe educators should spend their time teaching instead of constantly adapting lessons or creating resources from scratch.
Students learn best when they experience success.
Our instructional approach is designed to help students get into the learning zone, or that mental state in which they are fully absorbed in the lesson, meeting its challenges and making correct connections.
Understand the barrier before changing the instruction.
Our curriculums help educators identify complex learning barriers and make informed instructional decisions.
These principles become practical through our 4-step teaching approach, which builds assessment, barrier analysis, customized instruction and progress monitoring into every curriculum.
Why Manus Curriculums
We’re more than curriculum; we’re a complete instructional system.
We don’t just provide teaching materials and leave you to put the work into making your own modifications. Manus Curriculums gives you the practical tools to effectively teach with:
Placement testing
Determine the right starting point for every student.
Learning barrier analysis tools
Identify the barriers behind the breakdown before you teach.
Structured, science-based instruction
Explicit, sequenced lessons grounded in research.
Scripted, guided lesson delivery
Know exactly what to say and do in each lesson.
Built-in accommodations
Adaptations already written into the materials.
Progress monitoring
Track learning and adjust instruction with evidence.
The result is a curriculum that helps teachers spend less time preparing lessons and more time delivering instruction with confidence.
Reviews
What educators tell us.
Experience the Manus Curriculums Approach in Your Classroom
Choose a free lesson and experience how Manus Curriculums helps educators deliver structured, individualized instruction with greater confidence.
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