• Curriculum resource adoption cycles are essential to ensuring continual alignment between resources, curriculum maps, and standards to ensure a vertically articulated progression of educational concepts. Elizabeth School District BOE Policy IG (Curriculum Development) along with the Bylaws of the Board Curriculum Review Committee provide guidance to the process for curriculum resource adoptions. This process includes the development of a curriculum review committee, exploration and demoing of potential resources, and a recommendation to the Board Curriculum Review Committee for consideration by the Board of Education. Once a finalist for a resource is recommended, materials will be available for public viewing and inspection for a minimum of 30 days. 

    Elizabeth School District has recently begun developing a systematic approach to resource adoption on a cyclic schedule. 

    2023-2024

    • Science - September through March
    • Social Studies - December through May

    2024-2025

    • Secondary Language Arts - September through March 
    • Secondary Health - September through March
    • Secondary Mathematics - December through May

    2025-2026

    • Elementary Language Arts - September through March
    • Elementary Mathematics - December through May
    • Select Secondary Electives Courses 

     

    2023-2024 Science Resource Adoption 

    Beginning in September of 2023 elementary and secondary science teachers will begin reviewing and exploring the Next Generation Science Standards, adopted by Colorado in 2018 as the Colorado Academic Standards, and begin demoing potential resources for consideration.

    The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are a new set of K–12 science standards that were developed by states, for states. The NGSS identifies scientific and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas in science that all K–12 students should master in order to prepare for success in college and 21st-century careers. The major changes that came with the newly adopted Science Standards were the inclusion of:

    1. Cross-Cutting Concepts
    2. Science and Engineering Practices 

    Information on NGSS

    1. NGSS Fact Sheet
    2. NGSS Vision for Science Education 
    3. NGSS Overview 
    4. Using Phenomena in NGSS

    The resources being considered:

    • Discovery Education Science (Elementary and Middle School)
    • Amply Science (Elementary and Middle School)
    • OpenSci Ed (Secondary)
    • Ph.D. Science (Elementary)