Review and Adoption Tools
Empowering Educators with Insightful Reviews and Streamlined Adoption Tools
The Alignment Tool
Teach, Plan, Lead With Confidence
Leveraging Learning List’s curriculum alignment expertise, our easy-to-use Alignment Checker tool provides reliable results in minutes.
Simply upload a document or photo of text and instantly verify the alignment of
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lessons
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activities
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assessments, and
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other classroom resources
Great for instructional planning, PLCs, coaching, and curriculum writing!
Individual and multiuser plans are available. Contact us for a demonstration and pricing information.
The Learning List
Looking for new instructional materials? Search no more!
The Learning List is a free directory of instructional materials
organized by grade band.
The Selection Tool Kit
Everything you need to manage an efficient instructional materials selection process
Selection Toolkit
Easy-to-use online templates and tools to facilitate an efficient, data-driven adoption
Planning documents help you structure an efficient process
Needs Assessments identify features the new materials must have
Standards-aligned rubrics guide the selection of high-quality instructional materials
Progress monitoring tools keep the process on track
Data reports aggregate and analyze the committee’s responses
Downloading and purging tools protect participants’ privacy
Selection Facilitation Service
Strategic guidance and administrative support to help you run an instructional materials adoption
One-on-one guidance from Learning List staff
Customized rubric(s) and other documents that reflect the district’s priorities
Learning List’s reviews of the materials the district is considering
Data reports that aggregate and analyze the selection committee’s responses
Customized presentation for the school board
Learning List Insights
Sharing What We Have Learned to Save Educators Time and Money
Mapping Instructional Materials to Your District Curriculum
Having the district’s instructional resources mapped to the district curriculum ensures that lessons and activities from the instructional materials are in sync with the curriculum. Such synchronicity eases teachers’ workloads, facilitates standards-aligned instruction, and supports students’ academic progress. As anyone who has done this work can attest, aligning resources to a district curriculum often feels like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. This white paper offers strategies to help districts and campuses develop a sound process for mapping their instructional materials to the district’s curriculum.
Guidance for Selecting or Curating High-Quality Instructional Resources
If you are preparing to manage an instructional materials adoption or you would like to bring order to the teacher-created resources in your district/on your campus, this paper will help! Over the last decade, Learning List has reviewed thousands of materials and assisted hundreds of districts with their instructional materials adoptions. This paper suggests a data-driven process for reviewing instructional materials and teacher-created lesson resources. We share lessons learned from our experiences reviewing materials and assisting districts to help you ensure the quality and coherence of the instructional resources being used on campuses across your district.
Overcoming Challenges to Standards Alignment
In our first whitepaper, Navigating to Successful Student Outcomes with Standards-Aligned Instruction, we discuss what alignment means and why it matters. Consider that alignment 1.0. Overcoming Challenges to Standards Alignment is alignment 2.0. In this paper, we discuss how to review the alignment of instructional materials and how to conquer some of the most common challenges Learning List’s reviewers have encountered over the last decade.
Navigating to Successful Student Outcomes with Standards-Aligned Instruction
Covid-19 has made achieving the goal of preparing all students with the skills they need to progress in school and life immeasurably more challenging. Since student progress is most often measured by performance on standards-aligned assessments, delivering standards-aligned instruction paves the road for student success. In this whitepaper, we distinguish the roles of state standards, curriculum, and instructional materials in the delivery of standards-aligned instruction. We then discuss how to build a culture of standards alignment in your district or campus and provide guidance regarding using materials most effectively to support standards-aligned instruction.