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Overview
The State Board of Education periodically nominates educators, parents, business and industry representatives, and employers to serve on a committee to review, revise, and adopt Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for each subject of the required curriculum. These standards lay out the knowledge and skills that students should master for each grade level. New English Language Arts/Reading standards for grades 9-12 have been officially adopted and will be implemented beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. For more information, please see the TEKS Review and Revision page.
With the adoption of new TEKS, the state of Texas provides school districts funding to purchase instructional materials as resources to teach the state standards. School districts may choose how to allocate the money (i.e., textbooks, technology, classroom libraries of books, teacher training, etc.). For more information, please see Proclamation 2020.
The Leander Independent School District has convened an Instructional Materials Adoption Committee to review state-approved English Language Arts instructional materials and make a recommendation to the School Board.
For more information about the committee, the adoption process, and materials under consideration, please explore this website including the links to the left.
Goals and adoption Process
Goals and adoption Process
Goals
- Adopt instructional materials that maximize learning opportunities for our students
- Ensure that 100% of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS / state standards) are represented in the written curriculum and that teachers and students have access to instructional materials that cover all of the TEKS
- Select resources that support the district's beliefs about high-quality reading, writing, and language instruction
- Select resources that support the district's instructional model
- Adopt instructional materials that reinforce, support, and enhance but do not replace LISD curriculum
Process
- The Instructional Materials Adoption Committee, consisting of representatives from every high school campus, will meet beginning in October 2019 to review publisher materials and provide feedback to the Teaching and Learning Department. This feedback will be used to narrow down the list of publishers to move forward in the selection process.
- The top committee-selected materials will be made available on campuses for teachers to review in January and February 2020.
- Community members may review the materials from February 1 - February 28 at a north and south facility (locations TBD) during normal operational hours.
- Teachers will give feedback on the materials.
- The committee's recommendation will be submitted to the LISD School Board in March of 2020.
contact information
contact information
Contact
- English and AP English courses contact - Jennifer Abramson, Secondary English Language Arts Coordinator
- English Elective courses contact - Jamie Everett, Career Development Coordinator
- ESL courses contact - Zaida Avila, English as a Second Language Coordinator
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