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Hearing Information
IMCAT
in Corpus Christi
December 2012
What is a Proclamation?
• A proclamation is issued by the SBOE to solicit bids for new instructional material from the publishing industry. The proclamation identifies subject areas scheduled for review, contains content requirements, maximum costs to the state, and a calendar of the adoption process. The complete process generally takes 24 months and ends with local districts making a selection. Material for a few courses are reviewed each year, such that over about a 10 year period all material is updated.
Upcoming Proclamation 2014
• Science K-12
• Science K-5 Spanish
• Math K-8
• Math K-5 Spanish
• Technology
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=2147486662
Board Policy
• Check your district board policy EFAA Local– Select committee– Approved by board of trustees– Make recommendation to board of trustees
• ExamplesDuncanville ’s
http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/363?filename=EFAA(LOCAL).pdfGoosecreek’s
http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/591?filename=EFAA(LOCAL).pdfIrving’s http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/367?filename=EFAA(LOCAL).pdf
Sample Selection CommitteesIrving ISD Duncanville ISD Goose Creek ISD
Superintendent or designee as chair
Majority classroom teachers
Majority classroom teachers
Director of Learning Resources
(no others specified in board policy)
(no others specified in board policy)
Division Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Director of Instructional Technology
Division Director of Staff Development
3 principals—one per cluster and one per level
9 classroom teachers from the District Improvement Committee (majority)
17 total
Selection Committee
• Who’s the chair?• Who are possible
members?– How are they selected?– Does the board of trustees
approve?
• Who’s included?– Who can’t serve?
• Is there a separate parent or citizen review?
Conduct of the Committee
• Attend or send a substitute to all meetings of the District Level meetings and hearings.
• Share selection information with all campus staff and parent committee members.
• Check to make sure samples are available for all to review• Facilitate distribution, completion and return of evaluation rubrics.• Sample handout
A Board member, administrator, or teacher commits an offense if the person receives any commission or rebate on any instructional materials or technological equipment used in the schools with which the person is associated. Staff development or training, and ancillary materials such as maps or material that contributes to the learning process are not considered gifts.
Closed or Open District
• If your district is a “closed” district. Instructional material representatives and publishers must complete all communications through the district IM office. Violation of this procedure generally results in disqualification for that publisher from the current selection.
• Most districts in Texas are “Closed”.
Selection Criteria
The District shall provide a wide range of instructional
resources for students and faculty that present varying
levels of difficulty, diversity of appeal, and a variety of
points of view.
Instructional materials refers to textbooks, consumables,
electronic resources, and other resources used for formal
or informal teaching and learning purposes. The primary
objectives of instructional resources are to deliver,
support, enrich, and assist in implementing the District’s
educational program.
Selection Criteria
•The Board shall rely on District professional staff to
select and acquire instructional resources that:–Enrich and support the curriculum, taking into consideration
students’ varied interests, abilities, learning styles, and maturity
levels.
–Stimulate growth in factual knowledge, enjoyment of reading,
literary appreciation, aesthetic values, and societal standards.
–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.
–Represent many ethnic, religious, and cultural groups and their
contributions to the national heritage and world community.
–Provide a wide range of background information that will enable
students to make intelligent judgments in their daily lives.
Selection Criteria
•During the process, reviewers need to ensure:–The material supports and is consistent with the general educational goals of the District and the aims and objectives of individual schools.–The material meets high standards in presentation, format, readability, content, accuracy, artistic or literary quality, and educational significance.–Are appropriate for the subject and for the age, ability level, learning styles, and social and emotional development of the students for whom they are selected.–Are designed to provide information that will motivate students to examine their own attitudes and behavior, to understand their rights, duties, and responsibilities as citizens, and to make informed judgments in their daily lives.
•Based on board policy EFA.
Controversial Issues
• Science
• Math
• Technology
• Bilingual
Timeline• Rubric Design
• Selection of Committee Members
• Board Approval of Committee Members
• Initial Meeting
• Reviewing
• Narrowing Down
• Hearings/Fairs
• Final Vote
• Present to Board
• Place EMAT OrderSample timeline
Considerations
• How will you provide access to samples?
• How will you train committee members?
• What are your board approval deadlines?
• Will you have public hearings with publishers presenting?
• Who’s making the rubrics?
• How’s the technology being reviewed?
Online Impact on Reviewing
• Review for content
• Review for compatibility
• Review for usability
• Review for appeal
Hearings or Fairs
• Hearings – publisher demonstration and/or presentation.
• Fairs – publishers have tables and talk to individual teachers.
• Problems– Verbal promises misinterpreted
– High pressure sales
– What you see is what you get?
Hearings/Fairs
• Scheduling
– Sample schedule
• Refreshments
– Who’s paying for them?
• Credit for attending?
– Is it staff development?
– Comp time?
– SBEC credit?
Sampling Process
• Requesting Samples – online or hard copy
• Distributing Samples
• Ensuring access codes and web sites get distributed to reviewers
Parent and Student Input
• Parent representatives on the committee
• Student testing of material
• Device testing
Curriculum Department Input
• Narrowing down options
• Involved in nominating committee members
• Participate in all hearings and meetings
Special Areas Input
• Special Education
• Intervention
• Bilingual/ESL/ELL
• Gifted and Talented
• Summer School
• Virtual School
• Transitions
Rubrics
• Generic rubric
• Subject and grade level specific rubric
• Online rubric
– Biology Supplement sample
• Parent rubric
• Student rubric
– Student sample
New Rules from TEA, SBOE and the Legislature
• Certification of 100% TEKS Coverage
• Disbursements
• Publishers will provide online samples upon request
• Hard copy samples are available at the discretion of the publisher
• Ancillaries
Publisher Commitment Letter
• Send out to publishers of interest
• Sample or check NTTCA-IM website
Committee’s Choice
• After reviewing choices, the committee needs to meet to make recommendations to the board.
• Schedule to be on the board’s agenda.
• Prepare the paperwork.
• Present to board.
• Sample paperwork
Instructional Materials Allotment
• Are IMA funds paying for your choice?
• How much are you directed to purchase?
• Will other funds be used?
Additional Resources• Dr. Lea Bailey [email protected]
• Kellie Skarda [email protected]
• Ann McGuffey [email protected]
• TEA http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/textbooks/distribution/index.html
• IMCAT http://www.imcat.org/
• NTTCA-IM http://www.nttca.org/
• http://regionivtextbooks.org/
• http://region7imcat.weebly.com/region-7-coordinator-listing.html
• http://www5.esc13.net/thescoop/textbooks/
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Google doc summary from Biology rubric
Link to form https://docs.google.com/a/irvingisd.net/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGZpU2Fzd0lDOXQ5SXRwRlRPcVF3WFE6MA
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