K-12 Teacher Resources
The download library
All of it is free and none of it needs a form. Product overviews for sharing with a department, teaching materials for planning, and the evidence documents an approval process usually asks for.
Product overviews
What Mango Classroom is
How Mango is used in the classroom
What high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools actually do with it, including exploratory language programs and Seal of Biliteracy preparation.
Download How Mango is used in the classroom (PDF)Mango app features
The learner-facing app: offline lessons, family profiles, study reminders, and hands-free mode.
Download Mango app features (PDF)How to add family profiles
A step-by-step guide for students and families setting up the five additional profiles, on mobile and desktop.
Download How to add family profiles (PDF)
Teaching materials
For planning and instruction
Guide to Best Practices sampler
A look inside the 101 lesson plans: instructional strategies, Bloom's tiers, DoK levels, rubrics, and adaptations by proficiency.
Download Guide to Best Practices sampler (PDF)The Mango Proficiency Scale
Level-by-level descriptions from Beginner 1 to Master 2, mapped to the ACTFL and CEFR frameworks.
Download The Mango Proficiency Scale (PDF)The Mango Curriculum whitepaper
How the K-12 curriculum is built and how it aligns to state and national world language standards.
Download The Mango Curriculum whitepaper (PDF)
English learners
For EL and newcomer programs
Foundational instruction for English learners
How Mango supports emergent bilinguals, and the second language acquisition principles behind it.
Download Foundational instruction for English learners (PDF)
Evidence & rollout
For the approval process
Our approach to second language acquisition
The whitepaper on the research Mango's methodology is built on.
Download Our approach to second language acquisition (PDF)The K-12 implementation process
The four stages of a Mango rollout and who you'll be working with at each.
Download The K-12 implementation process (PDF)Buying through PCA
How member districts purchase Mango against the Purchasing Cooperative of America contract instead of running an RFP.
Download Buying through PCA (PDF)
Disclaimer
"The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) guidelines" and "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Levels" are the property and/or marks of their respective owners and have no official association with Mango Languages or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. Neither ACTFL nor CEFR have in any way endorsed, sponsored, or otherwise agreed to partner or be associated with Mango Languages, or the Mango Languages Proficiency Scale, and no such partnership or association is intended or implied.
Want the materials that aren't downloads?
Classroom Guides, the Guide to Best Practices, and teacher reporting come with the software rather than as a PDF.