Instructional Materials Review

Fife School District's Reviewing Materials Process and Implementation

Fife believes in staff, student and community voice and buy in when reviewing instructional materials. We are also highly committed to student success with our adopted materials via initial teacher training and ongoing professional learning for our staff.

Our Review Committee

Fife Team

• Multiple grade level or content level representatives

  • Including our Building Instructional Leaders (BIL)

• Special education representative

• Title/LAP representative, when applicable

Outside Support

• OSPI

• Edreports

• Student Achievement Partners

Our Review Process

1. We start with a staff survey of 3 questions

   • What are your needs

   • What do you want/wish for

   • What Instructional Materials would you like us to review

2. Professional Learning

   • Centered around the shifts with Common Core

3. Evaluation of Curricula

   • Edreports

     • To select our top choices for review

   • EQuIP Rubric

     • To winnow our selection down to our top 2-3 choices

   • Fife Filter

     • Created from the staff survey questions

     • Used to select our top choice

4. Before we take our top choice to our district Instructional Materials Committee, (IMC) we run it through Washington's Evaluation for Bias

5. Our top choice is then taken to our District's IMC

   • They assure we have done due diligence in evaluating for bias

6. Lastly, our top choice is then taken to our schoolboard for final approval