Math Adoption Toolkit for California
Step 1
Review the current landscape and data on multilingual learner achievement and experiences
Step 1 guides districts to consider their existing policies and practices for multilingual learners and to conduct a review of different data sources regarding multilingual learner achievement and experiences.
In order to understand the goals and priorities of your curriculum adoption for multilingual learners, use these tools to inventory the current state of your district’s ability to effectively serve multilingual learners.
Step 1 Checklist: Multilingual Learner Landscape Analysis
Download and use this checklist to conduct an analysis of multilingual learner achievement and experiences in your context.
English Learner Data Inventory
Download and use this resource to conduct the English Learner (EL) Data Inventory and discuss its findings and implications for instructional materials review.
Student Experience Interview Protocol
Use this resource to gather information from multilingual learners regarding their experiences with instructional materials.
Teacher Focus Group Protocol
Conduct focus groups with a sample of math teachers in your district to inform your curriculum adoption through better understanding their perceptions of how they utilize math instructional materials.
Making the Case: Sample Slidedeck
Download and use this ready-made slide deck to provide context and make the case for an inclusive adoption process centered on multilingual learners.
Step 2
Strengthen adoption criteria using the Multilingual Learner Review Criteria
Step 2 guides districts to analyze their existing instructional materials review criteria for multilingual learner parameters and incorporate unaddressed areas into an inclusive review process.
In order to include the assets and needs of multilingual learners in your curriculum adoption process, use these tools to incorporate the Multilingual Learner Review Criteria in your district's process for reviewing instructional materials.
Multilingual Learner Review Criteria
Use the Multilingual Learner Review Criteria to review how instructional materials address multilingual learners' linguistic and instructional needs. Use these criteria to review your instructional materials during your adoption process or to develop your own materials review criteria and indicators.
Scenarios for Multilingual Learner Criteria
Assuming that your district will use only one process to review materials and integrate multilingual learner criteria into your local criteria, consider the scenario that best reflects your district's current situation and the action steps that not only meet your needs but also ensure that multilingual learners are not an afterthought in your adoption criteria.
Contact us for additional support in implementing Step 2 or any step in the toolkit.
Step 3
Select and prepare an inclusive Adoption Committee and Review Team
Step 3 guides districts to select and prepare the adoption committee and review team to review selected materials.
In order to define and plan high-quality training for your Adoption Committee and Review Team, use these tools to build knowledge and understanding so reviewers can evaluate the quality of instructional materials for multilingual learners.
Step 3 Checklist: Adoption Committee & Reviewer Training
Plan the action items to set up Review Team for success in evaluating instructional materials with a culturally and linguistically responsive lens. Use the checklist to ensure that your Review Team is prepared to address the assets and needs of multilingual learners in your materials review process.
Training & Orientation for the Review Team: Sample Agenda
Plan to provide high-quality training for your Adoption Committee and Review Team. This sample agenda provides an example of an orientation meeting to prepare reviewers for including multilingual learners in the materials review process.
Other Step 3 Resources
CalCurriculum Criteria and Evidence Guide
Step 4
Conduct the materials review and make decisions
Step 4 guides districts to conduct an inclusive materials review process using the Multilingual Learner Criteria/Evidence Guide from Step 2.
In order to ensure that the curriculum adoption process addresses the assets and needs of multilingual learners, use these tools to plan and implement an inclusive review of instructional materials for multilingual learners.
Step 4 Checklist: Inclusive Materials Review
Plan a materials review process that is inclusive of multilingual learners.
Step 4 Checklist: Piloting Materials
Ensure that the piloting process is inclusive of multilingual learners.
Step 4 Checklist: Communication with Publishers
Communicate and gather information from publishers during the adoption and pilot process.
School Board Members and Equitable Materials Adoption
Recommendations for school board members to promote equity in the curriculum adoption process by elevating the needs of multilingual learners.
Notes: Multilingual Learner Materials Criteria and Indicators
Review the instructional materials and take notes on evidence, questions, or comments you have related to each indicator.
Step 5
Plan for launch and implementation
Step 5 guides a district or state to generate a launch and implementation plan based on the findings of an inclusive materials review. The plan ensures that the assets and needs of multilingual learners are accounted for during monitoring and implementation of instructional materials.
In order to prepare for an effective launch of newly adopted instructional materials, use these tools to ensure that multilingual learners are included in the materials implementation process.
Step 5 Checklist: Launching Implementation
Effectively launch the adopted materials to serve multilingual learners.
Additional Resources
Additional resources to support your curriculum adoption are available through partnership with ELSF.
