Textbook Adoption 2010-11

1. Textbook Adoption 2010-11 Committee Meeting Fall 2010

2. Agenda • Welcome and Thank You! • Adoption process and timeline • Closed-district • Rubrics for evaluation

3. State Textbook Adoption Timeline • TEA bid • Publisher guidelines • Sample materials • TEA “conforming list” – November • April -selection to school board (April 12th meeting) • April 15th selection notification to TEA

4. HPISD textbook adoption dates • November 29th • initial meeting, rubrics for evaluation development • December 1-17 • evaluation rubrics finalized via Google docs • January • publisher presentations • Parent Preview • January 31- February 11 • Voting • March 22-23 via survey monkey • Textbook Committee Meetings • March 28, 29, 30 • April 12 • Recommendation to school board • Ancillary selection meetings • May 1, 2, 3

5. Committee responsibilities: month by month • November and December • receive and peruse sample materials • Seek feedback from teammates • Assist in developing rubric for evaluation • January • List questions/ concerns for publishers • Begin to complete rubric – highlight areas where you do nit yet have sufficient information to evaluate • Attend publisher presentations • February – • Continue to evaluate sample materials • Seek feedback from team • Answer questions or concerns from parents • March • Complete rubrics with team input and rank preferences BEFORE Spring Break • Vote March 22-23 • Attend textbook decision making meeting (March 28,29, or 30) • May • Assist in selecting ancillary materials

6. Multiple adoptions this year… • Pre-K • ELA Grade 2-8 • English I- IV • ESL • Spelling • Grades 1-2, consumable • Grades 3-6, non-consumable • Handwriting (grades 1-3, consumable)

7. Publishers

8. Policy… In the textbook selection process, careful attention shall be given to: • 1. The continuity from grade to grade of the textbooks selected for use. • 2. Their compatibility with appropriate guidelines. • 3. Their consistency with the philosophy, goals, and objectives of the District.

9. HPISD is a “closed district” This means… • No meeting/communicating with vendors outside specified district meetings • Not participating in or accepting invitations to events or “freebies” sponsored by vendors • Not showing preferential treatment to one particular publishing firm or discussing feelings/impressions about items up for adoption with others outside HPISD

10. Policy • A Trustee, administrator, or teacher commits an offense if the person receives any commission or rebate on any textbooks used in the schools with which the person is associated. • A Trustee, administrator, or teacher commits an offense if the person accepts a gift, favor, or service that: • 1. Is given to the person or the person’s school; • 2. Might reasonably tend to influence the person in the selection of a textbook; and • 3. Could not be lawfully purchased with funds from the state textbook fund. • Education Code 31.152

11. Your role on the textbook committee… • Represent for your team/ grade level • Manage sample materials for your team/ grade level as they arrive • Review materials up for adoption and encourage team members to review and offer feedback as well • Compare and analyze materials based on adoption rubric • Build consensus with team around the best selection and rank order of preference • Represent your team sharing pros/ cons with text book adoption committees • Work with the committee to build consensus around the best selection for the district • Attend textbook committee meetings and publisher showcase day

12. Your role … Policy The Board shall rely on District professional staff to select and acquire instructional resources that: • 1. Enrich and support the curriculum, taking into consideration students’ varied interests, abilities, learning styles, and maturity levels. • 2. Stimulate growth in factual knowledge, enjoyment of reading, literary appreciation, aesthetic values, and societal standards. • 3. Present various sides of controversial issues so that students have an opportunity to develop, under guidance, skills in critical analysis and in making informed judgments in their daily lives. • 4. Represent many ethnic, religious, and cultural groups and their contributions to the national heritage and world community. • 5. Provide a wide range of background information that will enable students to make intelligent judgments in their daily lives.

13. Rubric development • Curricular Emphasis • TEKS integration • Most difficult to teach TEKS? • Instructional focus • Rigor of student assignments • Supports for differentiation of instruction • Assessments (formative and summative) • Technology • Teacher Utility • organization • Student appeal

14. Rubrics • Samples for you to consider • Ideas to think about including: • General format • Rigor of student assignments • Instructional content • Instructional approaches • Compatibility with HPISD instructional philosophy and initiatives • Assessment • Technology Integration

15. Contact Information • Pam Hooker • District Textbook Coordinator • Ext. 3009 • Denise Beutel • ELA Coordinator • Ext. 3088