Inman & Washington Teachers,
This email is to update the K-5 teachers regarding our math adoption progress. As Mr. Schmidt mentioned during his budget meetings and I mentioned to teachers at the end of our February 16th PD, math will be a two-year adoption process.
This week, our secondary has approved adopting Holt's textbook series and resources for grades 6th, 7th, 8th, Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry. We will be doing a full adoption at the middle school and phasing in textbooks at the high school level.
What does that mean for K-5? Proposal costs at the secondary level and initial quotes from elementary series indicate we will be able to adopt a series this spring/summer and phase in the resources over two years:
2009-10: DK/Kindergarten - 2nd grade; MS; Alg I, Alg II, Geometry (limited books at HS level)
2010-11: 3rd grade - 5th grade (and additional HS courses & textbooks)
What do we need to do now? Although math curriculum team members (Nielsen, Dunn, Kelly, Davis/Erickson, Haufle, Fehring/Linn) will meet with me in April during PLC time, I do need all classroom teachers to be using the resources in hand and discussing pros and cons of each during team time. I have listed the three series we have narrowed it down to and online links you may access for more information. If you do not have the materials in hand (or a team member), please let me know as soon as possible. I'm still working with the other two reps to get onsite demos as we have had conflicts with prior dates.
Investigation (Scott Foresman) - demo date will be the week after Spring Break - TBA
http://investigations.scottforesman.com/
Saxon - demo already given
http://saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/sxnm_home
Everyday Math (Wright/McGraw-Hill) - demo date still in the works
http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/
Thank you for your work, flexibility and dedication to the process!! Questions - let me know.
He who laughs, lasts
DB
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Doug Barry
http://www.redoakschooldistrict.com
712.623.6630
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
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