The textbook-adoption process includes these steps:
The principal meets with the Director of Educational Services. • Review process. • Establish a timeline resulting in board action. • Select Instructional Materials Evaluation Committee.
Instructional Materials Evaluation Committee. • Director of Educational Services. • Principal. • Teachers (minimum two). • Parent(s), additional staff, as deemed necessary (two to three).
Text-review process. • Committee reviews state-adopted list. • Committee screens adopted texts for quality and alignment to state standards and selects two to four texts for further review. • Publisher representatives for each selected text make presentations to the committee. • Publisher representative presents the district with costs for piloting textbooks (in writing). • Publisher representative presents the district with costs for the entire adoption, if selected (in writing). • Teachers pilot text for two semesters.(if possible) • Piloting teachers meet with other staff at least two times to discuss text and make recommendations. • Evaluation form is completed by each teacher piloting text. • Recommendation is made to the Superintendent. • Community display of recommended text(s) (30 days). • Superintendent recommends approval of adoption to the board of trustees. • Board of trustees meeting for first reading of adoption recommendations • Board of trustees’ approval of recommended texts (second reading). Each student, including English learners, has access to current, standards-based textbooks and other.instructional resources.
