Curriculum

Selection
Process:
English
Department
English 11 PLC Meeting
Wednesday, March 29 #CONNEXIT
Objective:The goal is to ensure that you all feel informed and part of
the curriculum selection process.

Standards that will be addressed throughout the presentation:

NBPTS Proposition 4: Teachers think systematically about their practices and

learn from experience.

NBPTS Proposition 5: Teachers are Members of Professional Communities

Teacher Leadership Domain 1: Fosters a Collaborative Culture to Support

Educator Development and Student Learning
How are you
feeling about the
Curriculum
Process and the
CalOPS
transition?
 Check out these Curriculum Wish Lists:

● ELA Focus Group Wish List

● PLC UnWish/Wish List
Overview of Process and Timeline

Overview of
Process and
Timeline
Strategies from Increasing Student Achievement
from The New Classroom Instruction that Works
1.Cognitive Interest Cues 8. Peer-assisted consolidation of
learning.
2. Student goal setting and
monitoring 9. Retrieval practice (quizzing to
remember)
3. Vocabulary instruction
10. Spaced, mixed independent
4. Strategy instruction and modeling practice

5. Visualizations and concrete 11. Targeted support (scaffolded

examples practice)

6. High-level questions and student 12. Cognitive writing

explanations
13. Guided investigations
7. Guided initial feedback application
14. Structured problem solving
with formative feedback.

What strategies are the most important to you and your teaching practices?
 Final Decision for the Pilot Process

After fully evaluating seven different curricula…we

have decided to pilot HMH and McGraw Hill!
● Please refer to this ELA Resource Evaluation Tool
for our top choices for more details about why these
curricula were chosen.
What are other departments doing?

● Middle School English Department:

○ 1st Choice: HMH
○ 2nd Choice: Amplify
● Social Studies: HMH, Accelerate, and Flexpoint
● Science: McGraw Hill and Discovery Education
● Math: Still deciding
● Electives: Doing their own thing so their timeline
looks different.
 Pilot Process
1. Form Teams
2. Select Lesson(s)
Planning Phase: March
3. Select Students:
19th-April 7th
a. Five students each for
Pilot with Students: April
17th-June 15th a total for 40 students
from the English
Department.
4. Pilot Lessons using Canvas
5. Get student feedback
6. Discuss feedback with ELA
Focus Group
 HMH Lessons
Literature National G11
Unit 6: Modern and Contemporary
Voices
Lessons:
1. Unit Opener-Sparking your Learning
2. Analyze & Apply-”A Rose for Emily”
3. Analyze & Apply-”Mending Wall”
 HMH Lessons
Please login and review those three
lessons. Focus on what stands out as
different from Connexus along with
the pro and cons of the lessons.
Log in: ELA K-12 Sign In Link
Teacher Username:
Teacher1_91005457
Password: E!2currants
Student Username:
Student1_91005457
Password: E!2currants
● Use the teacher login,
● Select Discover at the top
● Select a Program: Literature
National G11
● Click on Unit 6, and then
scroll down to the lessons.
● I suggest looking at the
lessons through the Student
View First.
What do you think of the lessons?

Add your thoughts to this

document and then we will
discuss.
Coming Soon…

● More details about how the

piloting process will take
place.
● McGraw Hill lesson(s)
selection.
● EL Piloting information
● Updates on how the piloting
process is going with
students.
Do you have any questions? What else do you want to
know about the curriculum selection process?

Please complete this Google Form. This will allow me to

address your questions and see how you think this process is
going. The goal is to ensure that you all feel informed and
part of the selection process. Everyone’s opinion matters!
Thank you for your ideas and feedback!