Realized Curriculum Solutions partners with educational organizations to strengthen curriculum, elevate instruction, and advance culturally relevant and neuro-affirming systems that ensure neurodivergent students of color thrive. Choose from our flexible services designed to meet your organization’s goals and create lasting impact.

In 2024, Realized Curriculum Solutions partnered with Barbershop Books, based in New York City, to support them on revising and developing their award-winning online reading intervention, Reading So Lit^TM for students of color, neurodivergent learners, multilingual learners, and students from economically disadvantaged communities in grades Pre-kindergarten through 3. This online reading intervention won the 2024 New Schools Venture Fund in the category of Learning Solutions and the 2025 Lipman Family Prize.

We worked closely with the Barbershop Books team to develop a learning framework aligned with the Reading So Lit^TM online reading intervention for the target demographic groups of learners with an emphasis on supporting positive attitudes about reading for students who are historically marginalized in their schools and communities. We adapted lesson plans and digital activities to support the diverse learning needs of their target student demographic groups with a focus on evidence-based strategies like activating students' background knowledge to make connections, asking text-dependent questions, using visual supports for students who are reluctant readers, and reinforcing the inquiry process related to the types of reading students prefer or would like to try exploring. 

In 2022, Realized Curriculum Solutions' founder and CEO, Leroy Smith, M.Ed., became a consulting partner with Innovageous, based in Pennsylvania, to support them with developing a resource guide for families with advocating for their children in schools in Rhode Island. Leroy supported the founding partners of Innovageous with creating a culturally relevant and accessible resource guide for families receiving services from Families in Action Rhode Island to equip them with skills to effectively advocate for their children's educational needs. 

Our partnership equipped families of students from underserved communities with skills to address concerns with their children's school-based staff related to academics and social-emotional development. We designed a concise and informative resource guide for evidence-based strategies for families to use to bring up concerns with their children's school-based staff. 

Since 2022, Realized Curriculum Solutions partnered with the Center for Civic Education to design and deliver professional development workshops to social studies educators and non-profit leaders in civic education to develop, adapt, and implement civics curriculum solutions that empowers students of color, multilingual learners, and neurodivergent learners to become of aware of their civil liberties, the governance structures within the United States of American, and push for positive changes within their schools and communities.

 He supported educators and curriculum developers with making their award-winning civics curriculum solutions, We The People and Project Citizen, more accessible and culturally relevant to students of color, multilingual learners, and neurodivergent learners through their James Madison Project Legacy Expansion (JMPLE) and Civics Empowering All Students (CEAS) federal grants. Leroy trained social studies educators on how to embed the components of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), culturally relevant pedagogy, and CASEL's social-emotional learning frameworks to support the civics development of students in grades 6-12 throughout the United States of America.