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Will Texas will adopt a new science textbook

by AW to muinteoir

Mar 9, 2013

Heard anything?

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muinteoir On 3/09/13, AW to muinteoir wrote: > Heard anything?

Yeah. Proclamation 2014 is calling for K-12 textbooks for science, K-8 for math, and Teach Apps K - 12. AP science books are not included,

Samples should be at TEA and the ESCs in May. Samples must be electronic. Print samples are optional and can be worked out between distr...See More

Mar 9, 2013

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AW Our science textbook is from 2002. Math in the meantime already adopted a new textbook, resources, etc. Now they are up for another adoption?

I don't have a good feeling about this. Will science actually get new materials (textbooks, on-line texts, resources) or will we be the step child and end up with some half-baked on-line resource aga...See More

Mar 11, 2013

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muinteoir On 3/11/13, AW wrote: > Our science textbook is from 2002. Math in the meantime already > adopted a new textbook, resources, etc. Now they are up for > another adoption?

Yep. The math TEKS were revised, again. The revisions are pretty significant too, from what I understand.

> > I don't have a good feeling about th...See MoreOn 3/11/13, AW wrote: > Our science textbook is from 2002. Math in the meantime already > adopted a new textbook, resources, etc. Now they are up for > another adoption?

Yep. The math TEKS were revised, again. The revisions are pretty significant too, from what I understand.

> > I don't have a good feeling about this. Will science actually > get new materials (textbooks, on-line texts, resources) or will > we be the step child and end up with some half-baked on-line > resource again? Based on what you said below that seems a real > possibility.

The plus side of all textbook $$$ going directly to districts, is that districts now have a LOT of r]freedom and flexibility when it comes to purchasing instructional materials. Local control becomes truly local.

I was able to get supplemental adoption materials for 5 - HS in the supplemental adoption. I was also able to materials for K-4, even though that was not part of the adoption. The local control of the IMA gave me that opportunity.

Our Social Studies teachers have been able to get new resources even though they aren't up for an official adoption for a while.

If science is a step child when it comes to resources in your district, then you and your peers need to band together and present a good case for the new materials. It shouldn't be hard, it's pretty obvious. In my mind, anyway :)

> > > Since the money comes from the district's Instructional Material > Allotment, does that mean the district can decide how to spend > the money. For instance, could the district spend all the money > on the math materials and say the heck with science?

Every district has to create their own policies and procedures for use of the IMA. No district can say the heck with anything. Each superintendent has to certify that the district has instructional materials to cover 100% of the TEKS in each subject.

I will say that we have had sufficient funding in the IMA for anything we have needed. So no one content area has had any advantage over another.

Mar 11, 2013

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