English Language Arts Adoption Secondary Grades 7 12

English Language Arts Adoption Secondary Grades 7 -12 June 9, 2020

English Language Arts Adoption Committee Courtney Castelhano Bethany Ligon Heather De. Francisco ***** Theresa Bartholomew Courtney Moyer Jerald (Mike) Hopkins Mary (Angel)Wilson Dustin Kecta Candyce Matlosz Tracy Parris Lisa Smith Sandra Keller Chad Cantrell

Process The responsibility for the instructional materials review/adoption curriculum committee is that they will thoroughly review standards and decide the best series based off our district needs. All decisions will be made by team consensus. What work will the committee focus on? ● Review content standards ● Identify current needs ● Investigate and understand research and best practice about content area. ● Identify instructional materials to match District needs and that are consistent with recommendations from research. ● Participate in the implementation and monitoring of new resources/materials. ● Communicate the work of the committee with their stakeholder groups.

Process ● Team Meeting to discuss rubric and process ● Materials delivered and picked up by committee members ● Review and Evaluate materials at district with team and open to the public to view ● Met with each vendor virtually for an overview of program specific to our rubric and also chance to ask questions ● Discussion of rubric points and positives and negatives of each curriculum

Curriculum that was reviewed ● Houghton Mifflin ● Mc. Graw-Hill ● (Pearson) Savvas

Which was chosen and why: (Pearson) Savvas ● ● ● All students have extensive opportunities to encounter grade-level complex text. There are reading supports for students and strategic support prior to each reading selection Materials are accessible by diverse learners and provide appropriate support with reteach and practice built in Wide variety of texts and media are included within each unit such as essays, novel excerpts, memoirs Readings are paired by whole class, small group, & independent learning requiring learners to make connections and draw conclusions

Why it was chosen (continued) ● Instructional design cultivates student interest and engagement in rich texts ● Materials use multimedia and technology to deepen attention to evidence and texts. ● Each selection also contains standardized and customizable unit tests with text enhanced items similar to state testing ● Great home connection letters for communication with parents

What the ELA department is looking forward to with the new curriculum: ● ● ● Lesson objectives are clearly stated and a clear scope and sequence chart is provided Design For Whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction cultivates student responsibility and independence. Reading strategies support comprehension of specific texts and the focus on building knowledge and insight and tasks require the use of textual evidence, including supporting valid inferences from the text Materials focus on academic vocabulary prevalent in complex texts throughout reading, & writing, listening, and speaking instruction Provides performance based writing tasks and different modes of writing and grammar and language conventions embedded within reading selections Automated essay scoring for students to get automatic feedback with 6 traits of writing before submitted to teacher and plagiarism checker

Next Steps ● Identifying novels (trade books) for each grade level 7 -12 ○ Explain how the 2 -3 novels that are identified will be what each student reads at those levels ● Professional Development in June/July

School Year 2020 -2021 ● Ongoing Professional Development and Support ○ Monthly PD to review the use, answer questions, keep moving forward with fidelity ● ELA Department 7 -12 Quarterly Discussions ● Alignment of Assessments

Funding for the curriculum ● The funding is coming from M/O for 7 -8 with additional monies being used from the CARES funding that was awarded to the district to help with COVID-19. The funding from CARES would qualify as acceptable use so that students have access to online materials. ● Amount for the purchase for 7 -12 materials for 6 years $187, 781. 55 ● If the governing board approves the purchase on June 23, 2020 then we will move forward with purchasing the curriculum at that time. Pearson is working together with us to allow access to the teachers as we take steps forward.

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