5 Essentials in Teaching Pre-AP

We are often asked whether we review materials for Pre-AP courses. Pre-AP courses are grade level courses with embedded strategies to provide knowledge, concepts, and skills needed to prepare students for AP courses. While we will review any instructional materials aligned to the TEKS, CCSS, NGSS, and certain state-specific standards, districts may not need to purchase specific “Pre-AP texts”. Supporting …

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Are You In a New Role This Year?

Are you teaching a new grade level or subject this year? If so, have you had time to investigate the instructional materials provided by the district for the grade or course you are teaching? Sometimes when we have short notice of a change of assignment there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to plan.  Three years into my teaching …

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Social Studies School Service’s Active Classroom

Social Studies School Service’s Active Classroom series is a set of comprehensive digital resources to support social studies instruction at the middle school and high school levels. Courses focus on developing literacy skills in the context of social studies instruction.

New Review: EMC Publishing’s Economics

EMC Publishing’s Economics: New Ways of Thinking (Second Edition) is a comprehensive, semester-long high school economics course available in print and eBook formats. The course culminates in a multi-day, multimedia group research project in which students examine the effects of a financial crisis.

New Reviews: American Legacy Publishing’s Social Studies

American Legacy Publishing’s Studies Weekly Texas K-5 Social Studies Series provides resources to support elementary social studies instruction in print and online formats. Studies Weekly Magazines are delivered to schools in four quarterly installments. Each installment includes six to seven weekly units of instruction.

Can a District Project Instructional Materials Funding?

Earlier this year, we published a blog post that described how the funds for instructional materials in Texas flow from their source to local school districts. Knowing the amount of its IMA allocation for upcoming years can help a district begin planning for its instructional materials purchases.

New Reviews: Discovery Education’s Social Studies

Discovery Education’s Social Studies Techbooks are comprehensive, web-based social studies courses for middle school and high school students. Lessons focus on answering “essential questions” and are organized using the 5E Instructional Model (i.e., Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate).

New Instructional Material Reviews: Savvas Texas Social Studies Series

Pearson Education’s Texas Social Studies Series provides comprehensive middle school and high school social studies courses in print and digital formats. Content is structured using a four-part model: (1) Connect, (2) Investigate, (3) Synthesize and (4) Demonstrate.

New Reviews: McGraw-Hill Education – Texas High School Math

McGraw-Hill Education’s Texas High School Math Series is a set of comprehensive courses for Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and Pre-calculus that includes print and digital resources. Courses reference the TEKS throughout the instruction and focus on preparing students for end-of-course exams.

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