1. English Language Arts K-12 Adoption Recommendation
February 21, 2017

2. Meet Your Team April Jacobsen: Coordinator Dr. Terri Leon: Coordinator
Cori Orlando: TOSA
Aimee Spurbeck-Boian: TOSA

3. The Process
March 11:, 2016 Textbook Adoption Committee selection of curriculum
June 2016: Planning Day
Fall 2016: Pilot two Publishers
January 2017: Committees Meet
January 2017: Recommend to ELA Subject Area Committee
Fall 2017: Implementation
May 2017: Teacher Training
February 2017: Order textbooks
February 2017:
Recommend to Board of Education
January 2017: Take to Curriculum Council

4. Recommendations K-5 6-8 9-12 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys
Collections
Bedford/St. Martin’s

5. Overall Focus Reading:
Balanced genres, digital, standards-based, engaging
Writing:
Modeled, scaffolded, and embedded
Technology:
Student/teacher texts and resources
Assessments:
CAASP-aligned, including Performance Tasks

6. K-5 Reading: Strong in Foundational Skills Writing:
Daily writing builds up to the culminating written piece, performance tasks
Universal Access:
Addresses all subgroups and intervention tiers with a variety of materials for teacher choice

7. 6-8 Reading: Includes updated, online supplemental non-fiction texts
Writing:
Performance Task Writing Workbook
Universal Access:
Addresses all subgroups and intervention tiers with a variety of materials

8. 9-12
Reading:
Thematic units including fiction and nonfiction with timeless and modern literature
Writing:
Expository, narrative, and argumentative with student and professional models
Skill-based:
Skill based units with a variety of text options

9. Roll-Out Process: May 2017 Follow-up dates: Fall 2017
Training Structure K-5
Training Structure 6-8
Training Structure 9-12
Full day with publisher
Half-day overview by the publisher
Half-day workshops as suggested by pilot teachers
One and a half days workshops as suggested by pilot teachers, discussion HS transition
Follow-up dates: Fall 2017

10. ELD Elementary: Included for integrated and designated Middle School:
Supplementary texts
Newcomers, novels, Language!
High School:
Newcomers, TED (Cengage), novels, Language!
Aimee
Text options allows for differentiation for SPED and ELD