Rooted in Culture • Driven by Inquiry • Empowered by Knowledge
Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants, LLC helps schools, organizations, educators, and community institutions develop culturally grounded curriculum, professional learning, research, and educational frameworks that move beyond symbolic inclusion toward meaningful implementation.
Ten separate weekly Research Simulation Tasks connect civic inquiry, source analysis, mathematics, scientific reasoning and RACE writing. Explore the Ma’at Standard in action.
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Dr. James Lee Conyers Jr. was my trusted friend and fellow Ramapo College alumnus. We attended Ramapo together, and I honor the friendship we shared alongside his enduring scholarly legacy.
Ma’at pays tribute to his work in African American historiography and Africana Studies, and to the reclamation of historical knowledge. Through study, inquiry, and remembrance, we carry his legacy forward to another generation of critical scholars.
Terrence Knox
Founder, Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants
Starting with Kunjufu’s work on Black children, students examine how curriculum, high expectations, and student voice shape educational opportunity. They compare his ideas with the Mendez school desegregation case and Native Hawaiian language revitalization.
Meet Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants and discover how our curriculum connects culturally responsive teaching with rigorous reading, inquiry, and evidence-based writing.
Terrence Knox
Founder and Curriculum Developer
Developed by Terrence Knox, the RST Method brings source analysis, collaborative inquiry, and evidence-based writing together. Students investigate a meaningful question, examine perspectives, discuss their reasoning, and build a response they can support.
Research Simulation Tasks connect Social Studies, ELA, Mathematics, and Science through culturally grounded inquiry, including African and Indigenous perspectives and Amistad-focused learning.
Explore the framework, then choose classroom materials from the RST Middle and High collection.
Terrence Knox is an educator, author, curriculum developer, and founder of Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants LLC, established in 2017. Born in Newark and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, he brings decades of teaching, coaching, and community leadership to his work with young scholars.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in World History from Ramapo College of New Jersey and master’s degrees in Elementary Education and Special Education from Grand Canyon University. He has completed his doctoral coursework and is ABD (All But Dissertation), with his dissertation remaining. His research focuses on culturally responsive teaching and New Jersey’s Amistad Act.
As the author of The RST Method: Forging Student Collaboration and Critical Thinking, Knox develops interdisciplinary resources that help students investigate sources, reason together, and write with evidence. His 26 seasons coaching football and his work with community rites of passage programs reflect the same commitment to preparation, collaboration, and purposeful leadership.
The framework of Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants has its foundation in Kuumba, the Nguzo Saba principle of creativity. Kuumba calls us to use our abilities to strengthen and enrich the community for the generations that follow. For Ma’at, this means creating rigorous, culturally rooted curriculum that develops critical scholars, honors African and Indigenous intellectual traditions, and turns knowledge into meaningful contributions to our communities.
We help institutions move from good intentions to structured, defensible, culturally responsive educational practice.
Full units, lessons, assessments, interdisciplinary frameworks, standards alignment, culturally responsive instructional materials, and customized school or district curriculum.
Program audits, curriculum mapping, educator training, implementation planning, instructional resources, and institutional strategies for meaningful Amistad Act compliance.
Keynotes, workshops, seminars, coaching, curriculum institutes, and professional development on cultural responsiveness, history, identity, equity, and pedagogy.
Needs assessments, program reviews, historical research, policy analysis, implementation studies, educational reports, and strategic recommendations.
Rites of passage content, youth leadership resources, culturally centered mentoring frameworks, family workshops, and community-based educational programming.
Books, teacher guides, student workbooks, digital resources, presentation decks, toolkits, training manuals, and licensed curriculum products.
Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants develops customized mapping systems that help schools, districts, colleges, universities, researchers, and community institutions organize complex educational work into clear, usable, and sustainable frameworks.
Standards-aligned, culturally grounded curriculum maps for elementary, middle, and high school programs. Maps can organize essential questions, learning objectives, content strands, pacing, assessments, instructional resources, interdisciplinary connections, and culturally responsive learning outcomes across a full academic year.
Developmentally appropriate maps connecting standards, essential questions, cultural content, literacy integration, formative assessment, projects, and yearlong pacing.
Course and department maps supporting vertical alignment, interdisciplinary planning, historical and cultural integration, performance tasks, civic inquiry, financial literacy, and college readiness.
Research planning maps for undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and institutional projects. These maps can structure research questions, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, literature review strands, methodology, data sources, analysis pathways, scholarly milestones, publication planning, and culturally centered research design.
Supports capstones, theses, dissertations, faculty studies, and institutional research.
Build a research plan that reflects your questions, your institution’s requirements, and your goals. Ma’at’s interactive mind maps provide a structured framework you can personalize as your thesis or dissertation develops. Organize your next steps, incorporate advisor feedback, and track your progress at your own pace. Ma’at provides the framework. You shape the path.
A self-directed planning resource that helps master’s scholars develop a focused question, organize evidence, and shape a defensible thesis. The online mind map makes the relationships among research decisions visible: selecting a branch opens its topics, and selecting a topic reveals practical guidance and a concrete writing goal.
Inside the purchased interactive map: Eight expandable branches and 24 topics address focus and scope, literature and framework, research design, evidence and analysis, argument and chapters, writing routines, revision and integrity, and defense or final review. Use the map to identify a next task, prepare questions for an advisor meeting, check whether methods answer the research question, or revisit a stage when the study changes.
Platform compatibility and setup
Your $49 purchase includes: The complete Master’s Thesis Interactive Mind Map HTML file, institutional customization and personalized export tools, plus a five page landscape print PDF roadmap for individual student use, with explanations, academic writing models, decision prompts, and working matrices.
Your purchase includes the complete downloadable interactive HTML map and companion print PDF, supplied as separate files after confirmed payment. The map works offline in a modern browser. Personalize it with institutional requirements and use it through supported browser or learning-platform workflows within your individual-use license. Add your institution’s handbook excerpts, required chapters, deadlines, and advisor directions. Attach requirements to specific branches or topics, edit them, and mark them complete. Save locally, download a personalized HTML map with your entries, or export and merge a JSON requirements backup. The map supports planning; it does not generate thesis text.
Purchase Now · $49A self-directed planning resource that helps doctoral scholars connect a documented problem to a justified design, traceable findings, and an original contribution. The online mind map helps researchers examine how the parts of a dissertation depend on one another, moving between stages as evidence, committee feedback, or design decisions develop.
Inside the purchased interactive map: Eight expandable branches and 24 research goals cover problem and contribution, literature and framework, design and proposal, ethics and fieldwork, analysis and findings, discussion and contribution, writing and committee work, and defense and dissemination. Select any topic for guidance and a specific research or writing goal. Use the map to prepare committee conversations, identify alignment gaps, organize proposal decisions, distinguish evidence from interpretation, and plan the path from findings to a defensible contribution.
Platform compatibility and setup
Your $79 purchase includes: The complete Doctoral Dissertation Interactive Mind Map HTML file, institutional customization and personalized export tools, plus a seven page landscape print PDF roadmap for individual doctoral student use, with explanations, academic writing models, structured decision records, and working matrices.
Your purchase includes the complete downloadable interactive HTML map and companion print PDF, supplied as separate files after confirmed payment. The map works offline in a modern browser. Personalize it with institutional requirements and use it through supported browser or learning-platform workflows within your individual-use license. Add program rules, committee directions, ethics and proposal milestones, chapter requirements, and deadlines. Attach requirements to specific branches or topics, edit them, and mark them complete. Save locally, download a personalized HTML map with your entries, or export and merge a JSON requirements backup. The map supports planning; it does not perform analysis or write the dissertation.
Purchase Now · $79These maps are adaptable planning tools. Follow your institution’s handbook, advisor or committee direction, and approval requirements. Public pages contain limited previews only. Purchased editions include the complete interactive HTML map and companion PDF as separate files after confirmed payment. Complete downloads are delivered privately after confirmed payment.
Explore Beyond the Bubblesheet at $39.99 and Teaching for Cultural Justice at $49.99. Both books are PDF editions by Terrence Knox. Purchase the two-book PDF bundle for $79.99 and save $9.99.
Explore Digital BooksNew illustrated book · The Child Who Loved Football · PDF $24.99
New children’s book · Our Dear Rhea: A Story of Love · PDF $24.99
New children’s book · A Summer to Remember · PDF $24.99
New for young readers · What We Bring to School · PDF $24.99
40 editable slides with world and regional maps, geographic vocabulary, and six student activities. Compatible with Google Slides and Google Classroom. $39.99 includes the editable atlas and PDF reference copy.
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Ten-week collaborative business development project. 20-slide presentation in PDF format, with financial-themed artwork, NJSLS connections, Do Nows, checks for understanding, and weekly project checkpoints.
PDF only. Visit Shop Curriculum & Resources to purchase.
Explore Financial LiteracyExplore Kindergarten through Grade 12 and AP RST sets with student readings, written responses, assessment materials, and teacher support. Individual educator prices start at $39.
RST Middle and HighFive daily lessons connecting Africa’s geography, early societies, civilizations, and migration with the five themes of geography.
Includes: complete student packet, Do Nows, Quick Writes, map activities, assessment, RACE response, teacher notes, and answer key in one PDF.
PDF only. Visit Shop Curriculum & Resources to purchase.
Explore eight separate poetry RSTs featuring Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Grades 6–12. Complete poems, student packets, teacher guides, and grade-specific NJSLS and CCLS alignment. Each RST is $39.99.
$39.99 per RST
Explore All Eight Poetry RSTsExplore original posters on mindset, classroom rituals, financial literacy, and collaboration. Why Scholars Collaborate for Grade 6 Social Studies stations is $19.99. Other individual editions are $19; the original seven-poster collection is $99.
View Posters and PricesMa’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants develops and manages original educational intellectual property that can be protected, licensed, published, adapted, and expanded into long-term assets.
Schools, districts, nonprofits, universities, and training organizations may engage Ma’at through institutional licensing, professional development agreements, curriculum adoption, customized content development, speaking engagements, or strategic partnerships.
Licensing terms can define permitted users, duration, modification rights, redistribution limits, attribution requirements, digital access, and renewal conditions.
The pricing below provides a clear starting structure for Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants. Final pricing may vary based on customization, licensing scope, number of users, research requirements, travel, and institutional size.
Product prices vary. See the shop and individual product pages for current prices.
For individual educators, researchers, mentors, and professionals purchasing a single curriculum map, guide, workbook, research tool, or instructional resource.
Single-user license. No redistribution or institutional sharing.
Bundle prices vary. See the shop and individual bundle pages for current prices.
Multiple coordinated resources such as curriculum maps, lesson sequences, assessments, teacher guides, student materials, research maps, or professional learning resources.
Designed for individual professional use. Institutional licensing priced separately.
Framework: $500 per school per year. World Geography Bundle: $1,000 per school per year. Full RST collection: $1,000 per school per year. Each writing-map product: $300 per school per year.
Compare annual licensesCustom grade-level or course curriculum map with standards alignment, essential questions, pacing, assessments, instructional resources, and culturally responsive integration.
Master’s thesis map: $49
Doctoral dissertation map: $79
Personalize your own research plan with institutional requirements, research goals, advisor feedback, and milestones. Expand topics for guidance, organize your next steps, and track progress within Ma’at’s structured framework.
Explore the Research MapsKeynotes, featured lectures, panels, cultural education talks, and curriculum presentations for an audience. Speaking engagements focus on presenting ideas and facilitating audience discussion. Professional development workshops and implementation training are booked separately.
Keynote or featured lecture, up to 90 minutes: $1,500.
Speaking program, up to two hours: $2,000.
Additional speaking time beyond the booked program: $500 per hour.
Travel and lodging are separate and addressed in the agreement. The accepted proposal defines the topic, audience, duration, and any agreed customization.
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Flat fee per professional development engagement for schools, districts, universities, and organizations. PD sessions provide structured educator training with hands-on activities, implementation planning, and defined technology-based deliverables. A speaking presentation and a PD training session are distinct services.
Paperless professional learning. All PD materials are technology-based deliverables, such as digital presentations, interactive learning resources, and downloadable implementation tools. Participants access and use the resources on their devices. Printed handouts and printed material packages are not included.
The proposal specifies the training scope, duration, format, platform requirements, digital deliverables, and permitted use of the resources.
Travel and lodging, when required, are addressed in the agreement.
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Ask a QuestionEach product page lists its contents. RST packages include student PDFs and separate teacher materials. Print, fillable, and Google Classroom options are identified on the individual listing. Review the preview before purchasing.
After confirmed payment, Stripe returns you to a private download page. Download each file separately and save it to your device. Access lasts 30 days. If a payment is still processing, the downloads become available after it clears.
Where included, students can complete their own fillable PDF in a compatible PDF form reader or use the browser response version. Written response boxes allow 1,000 characters. Students save or export their work and submit it through Google Classroom. Available digital formats are listed on each product page.
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Integrate ELA, Social Studies, Science and Mathematics with the 54-page framework guide, the 74-page companion manuscript Integrated Interdisciplinary Frameworks Build Scholars, and the 17-page Integrated Knowledge manuscript, Part One. Includes quarterly unit outlines, lesson routines, RACE response tools and teacher planning supports.
$80 per year
Individual educator PDF
Schoolwide implementation license $500 per year • District school-count discounts available • Professional development workshop $5,000–$7,500
Three PDF publications included in the framework package.
View Framework · $80 per yearSeven continent RSTs, the three-publication Integrated Knowledge Framework package, and the Digital World Atlas slides with PDF reference copy. Annual educator license $299; one school $1,000. Districts receive discounts of 10% to 30% based on actual participating schools.
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Trace the Berlin Conference and the partition of Africa to the First World War, and examine the war’s effects on African soldiers, carriers, and civilians. Includes daily Do Nows and Quick Writes, 15 assessment questions, maps, and a separate teacher edition.
View the complete PDF set · $39.99Full Grades 6–12 RST collection: $1,000 per school per year before district discounts. Includes the supplied RST catalog, student print and fillable PDFs, teacher materials and available quiz tools, plus new RST releases during the paid term. Writing maps, framework publications, separately sold books, posters, atlas products, professional development, and custom alignment are excluded unless listed in the accepted order.
Actual participating school count × the product’s annual school rate × the applicable discount factor. Discounts apply to the entire participating school count: 1 school, no discount; 2–5 schools, 10%; 6–15 schools, 20%; 16–30 schools, 25%; 31 or more schools, 30%. Districts receive a written quote before payment. There are no minimum district package charges or per user fees.
10 schools: $8,000 per year. 25 schools: $18,750 per year. 50 schools: $35,000 per year.
Compare all annual rates and calculate your district total · Request an annual license quote
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Read or share a reviewRACE Writing and the Writing Styles collection are separate products, each $100 per educator or $300 per school annually. Writing Styles includes all five styles. District discounts apply to actual participating school counts.
Explore writing maps and district pricingNew curriculum and writing-map licenses require annual renewal. Classroom use is limited to the purchased educator or named schools. View annual prices, district discounts, and complete license terms.
Confucius, Ashoka, Murasaki Shikibu, and José Rizal. Five days of historical inquiry, daily Do Nows and Quick Writes, and separate teacher materials.
Purchase NowOrigins, colonial rule, and continuing self-determination. Choose the 20 page AP Version or the 13 page standard RST. Each is $39.99 per educator per year and includes separate student and teacher downloads.
Purchase Now · AP Version · $39.99 Purchase Now · Standard RST · $39.99Independence, democracy and self-determination in India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Nepal and Bangladesh. Choose the 20 page AP Version or the 13 page standard RST. Each is $39.99 per educator per year and includes separate student and teacher downloads.
Purchase Now · AP Version · $39.99 Purchase Now · Standard RST · $39.99Explore the rise of Yinggis Han, the Mongol campaigns against Western Xia and Jin, key women and men, and the consequences of empire. A complete 13 page inquiry with separate student and teacher downloads.
Purchase Now · $39.99Explore historical voices through SEL lenses. Malala, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Hansa Mehta, Wangari Maathai, the Edhis and Mandela anchor a 13 page inquiry on evidence, human dignity, unity and respect.
Purchase Now · $39.99Scientific inquiry, public education, immersive models, and understanding the universe. Choose the 13 page standard RST or expanded 19 page AP Version. Each is sold separately for $39.99 per educator per year.
Purchase Now · Standard · $39.99 Purchase Now · AP Version · $39.99Two age-appropriate five day inquiries. K to 2 supports shared reading, drawing, and oral responses. Grades 3 to 5 develops source-based explanations and RACE writing. Each edition is sold separately for $39.99 per educator per year.
Purchase Now · K to 2 · $39.99 Purchase Now · Grades 3 to 5 · $39.99Learn common words through sounds, spelling, meaning, and simple word histories. Five days with ELL and WIDA-informed scaffolds, IEP and 504 accommodation options, word cards, and a read-aloud companion.
Purchase Now · $39.99Explore Grades 3 to 5 with 20 words per grade, Grades 6 to 12 with 250 academic words, or the complete K to 12 vocabulary collection. Separate grade packets, teacher materials, fillable PDFs, and accessible digital reading companions.
Purchase Now · Grades 3 to 5 · $39.99 Purchase Now · Grades 6 to 12 · $39.99 Purchase Now · K to 12 Collection · $120.00
