For masjid weekend schools

FISLI for masjid weekend schools: 36 Sundays, one discipline, volunteer-ready

Weekend schools teach more Muslim children in North America than full-time Islamic schools do, with the least time, the least training and the least material. FISLI for weekend schools takes the same units, sources and standard as the school curriculum and cuts them for 36 Sundays of 90 minutes, taught by volunteers from a script.

What the kit is

• 36 Sunday sessions of 90 minutes: 32 teaching sessions, three review Sundays and a closing presentation, following one FISLI discipline for one grade band (eight units, three lessons each, plus assessment).
• A volunteer-teacher script per session: the opening question, the anchor story, the source to read aloud, the three guided questions, the written task, the closing. A teacher who has read the script the night before can teach it.
• Student pages for each session, printable, with the vocabulary and the reflection prompt.
• The assessment for each unit with its answer key, and a parent letter per unit saying what the child met and what to ask at home.
• Tier 1 orientation for the volunteers, two hours, online, included.

Which discipline first

Begin with the Prophetic Sīrah, middle school band. Students meet the Prophet ﷺ as a person before they study belief, and the eight units run from the Year of the Elephant to the farewell pilgrimage. The three illustrated films cover Unit 1, Lesson 3 and are free now on the films page. The following year add ʿAqīdah; the scope and sequence gives the order and the reason for it.

What it costs

A mosque can license FISLI today on the same terms as a school, from $2,500 a year, zakat-eligible. The weekend kit will be priced below that, for one discipline and one band a year, and the price is set with the first ten mosques on the waitlist.

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Questions schools and families ask

Is the weekend kit available now?

The full kit is in preparation. Today a mosque licenses the same units a school does and receives the teacher guides, which already carry a pacing guide per session; the weekend kit repackages them for one 90-minute Sunday session a week with a volunteer-teacher script. Join the waitlist and we will tell you the date and the price before anyone else.

What does it cost?

The mosque licence starts at $2,500 a year and is zakat-eligible through our fiscal sponsor. The weekend kit price is set with the first ten mosques on the waitlist; it will be below the full licence because it covers one band and one discipline a year.

Our teachers are volunteers. Will they cope?

The kit is written for them. Each session is scripted: what to say, what to ask, what the students write, how to close. Tier 1 authorization is a two-hour orientation, included.

Can we start with one discipline?

Yes. Most weekend programs begin with the Prophetic Sīrah band for grades 6 to 8, then add ʿAqīdah the following year. The scope and sequence shows the order.

Do you have anything we can use this Sunday?

Yes: the free Year of the Elephant lesson plan with its worksheet, the free Manṭiq unit, and the three films. All on the lesson plans page.