Trellis by Custos Practice
AI for curriculum that leaves the teaching to teachers.
Trellis is the all-in-one place to build a course. You write what students do in plain language, and it carries the standards, the tagging, and the formatting in the background. Your reviewer approves every call before it reaches staff.
Unit 3 of 6 · Culinary Arts & Hospitality
Kitchen Safety & Sanitation
Experience 2
What students do
Students investigate how cross-contamination moves between raw and cooked food, then design a prep-station setup that prevents it.
Built for your district's frameworks.
Every district writes curriculum its own way. Trellis is fitted to yours in person, then kept running.
Proven in Danbury.
A unit curriculum review went from 90 minutes to 15.
By Custos Practice.
The demo
See Trellis carry the paperwork.
Unit 3 of 6 · Culinary Arts & Hospitality
Kitchen Safety & Sanitation
What students do
Students investigate how cross-contamination moves between raw and cooked food, then design a prep-station setup that prevents it.
- ServSafe 4.2 · Prevent cross-contaminationMatches the ServSafe set you pinned for this course.
- CELP 4 · Construct grade-appropriate claimsThe template default for a hands-on reflection row.
- Cause and EffectThe task traces how contamination leads to illness.
- Assessment FOR LearningA formative check before the station build.
- ✓Prioritized standardServSafe 4.2 · Prevent cross-contamination
- ✓CELP standardCELP 4 · Construct grade-appropriate claims
- ✓Language functionCause and Effect
- ✓Type of assessmentAssessment FOR Learning
Unit 3 of 6 · Culinary Arts & Hospitality
Kitchen Safety & Sanitation
01The teacher writes what students do.
In Danbury Public Schools, a unit curriculum review went from 90 minutes to 15.
How it works
You do the thinking.
Trellis carries the busywork.
The right standards, found for you.
Type what a topic is about, and Trellis brings up the matching standards, Portrait of a Graduate attributes, language standards and certifications. Each one shows its source and how close the match is.
Tags suggested, with a reason for each.
Trellis reads what the teacher wrote and suggests every compliance tag, each with a confidence level from green to red and a plain reason. The teacher approves each one.
Write together, live.
Colleagues on the same unit see each other as they work, down to where each person is typing.
Every learner in the vocabulary.
Each key academic vocabulary word comes with its Spanish and Portuguese cognates, so multilingual learners are served from the first draft.
Nothing slips through.
A coverage map shows every standard the course commits to and which unit covers it, and a consistency check across units flags structure, required rows and vocabulary for the teacher to review.
Review in minutes, then print.
The reviewer highlights the exact words to comment on, and the note appears right under that field for the teacher. Approved units print as a clean course guide, readable in black and white.
Proof
Proven in Danbury.
Danbury Public Schools uses Trellis to write its career pathway courses: about thirty teachers across 21 career pathways.
“All that other stuff's done in the background. It's a godsend.”
“It still tests your teachers.”
“For me to give feedback in less than fifteen minutes, that would normally take me at least an hour and a half per unit.”
Since the first build, Danbury has added grades 9 to 11 and signed on to keep Trellis running.
Read the Danbury case study →For districts
Built for your district, in person.
- 01
We come to you.
Brayan visits your district to learn how you build curriculum and what your frameworks are.
- 02
Trellis is fitted to your frameworks.
Your templates and frameworks go into Trellis, beside the teachers who will use it. Danbury's first version took under four weeks.
- 03
Teachers get onboarded at PD days.
Teachers are up and running in under an hour, and spend the rest of the day building curriculum.
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It keeps running.
Trellis is hosted and looked after through the year. When there is new ground to cover, we come back in person.
Questions
What districts ask first.
What does it cost?
Every district starts with an in-person build fitted to its own frameworks, then a yearly hosting fee that grows with what Trellis covers. The quote comes after we've seen how your district works.
How long does it take?
Four weeks to a working tool is a realistic target. Danbury went from first conversation to teachers writing in Trellis in about four weeks.
Does Trellis write the curriculum?
Teachers write the course. Trellis suggests standards, tags and the shape of guiding questions, and the teacher approves each one.
Does Trellis hold student data?
Trellis is used by teachers and reviewers, and it holds no student personal information.
Can teachers bring their own materials?
Yes. Teachers can add their own sources and standards, and those stay private to them.
Can teachers work on a unit together?
Yes. Colleagues on the same unit see each other live, down to where each person is typing.
Who is behind Trellis?
Custos Practice. Brayan Tenesaca builds each district's Trellis in person.
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