Education leaders and educators engage in a cycle of advocating, reviewing, adapting, and implementing instructional materials in service of ensuring students have access to grade-level, content-rich, relevant, and meaningful learning experiences necessary to prepare them for the future of their choosing. While our partners and state education agencies already recommend strong processes for selection and implementation, this guidance is intended to provide a list of additional actions we suggest for each phase of the curriculum lifecycle. This guidance helps to attend to the CRLA Curriculum Design Principles and, along with resources from our partners, supports you in engaging in those actions. While the tools use different terminology, all the resources are aligned with the CRLA Curriculum Design Principles.  

As mentioned in the CRLA Design Principles, curriculum must be aligned to college- and career-ready standards and provide students access to grade-level appropriate texts and assignments. Once place we suggest you start in your materials review process is determining if materials are aligned with the standards using EdReports Curriculum Reviews. If the materials have not been reviewed by EdReports, begin by evaluating alignment to the standards and inclusion of grade-level texts and assignments using Student Achievement Partners Instrutional Materials Evaluation Tool (IMET)