Proclamation 2024 Instructional Materials Selection Goals
Learning Services is committed to providing quality curriculum resources, training, services, and materials that will significantly improve student achievement. The process for the selection of science materials provides an opportunity for the district and the community to make informed decisions on the selection of quality, state curriculum-aligned textbooks/materials. The primary objectives of instructional resources are to implement, enrich, and support the District’s educational program.
Throughout this process, the Curriculum and Instruction Department, in collaboration with Irving Independent School District employees, publishers, and community stakeholders, will accomplish the following goals:
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.
Provide a wide range of background information that will enable students to make intelligent judgments in their daily lives.