How does the textbook adoption process work?
October-November, 2008 — High school math teachers met to identify stakeholders, values and critical considerations to guide the adoption process January-February, 2009 — A subcommittee of teachers representing each of the high schools and teacher-representatives from special education and ESL met to develop a scoring rubric for the purpose of selecting textbooks to pilot. Initially 19 potential programs were considered and reviewed against state standards. Eight programs reasonably aligned with these standards. The subcommittee reviewed these programs in depth and ranked them on criteria including the balance of procedural skills (skills, facts, and procedures), conceptual development (making sense of mathematics) and problem solving (using mathematics to reason, think, and apply mathematical knowledge); accessibility for all students; and student learning experiences that reflect current research on learning mathematics. The subcommittee recommended five programs for teachers of hi
