Each committee would consist of 8-10 members. The first series of scheduled meetings will include training on the review instruments. This includes the instrument to determine alignment to district standards, quality of ancillary materials, assessments, teacher support materials, and Spanish editions. An additional instrument will be used to determine level of text structure and embedded literacy strategies. Each committee should have a balance of primary and intermediate teachers.
Committees are to determine chairs and submit that information at the end of tonight's meeting.
Publisher presentations will be done as a district wide event and scheduled by the Science Office. The presentations will be scheduled after committees have reviewed materials. No committee is to schedule separate publisher presentations apart from this process. The Science Adoption Meeting was never advertised as qualifying for Buyback Credit. Future meetings as part of this process will include the following tasks.