Unlocking High-Quality Materials: Adopting Math Materials for Emergent Bilinguals in Texas

What makes math instructional materials truly high quality—and why does that matter so much for emergent bilingual students? 

This follow-up webinar builds on Unlocking High-Quality Materials: Transforming Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals Across Texas and Unlocking High-Quality Materials: Why Materials Matter for Emergent Bilinguals in Texas, taking a deeper look at what defines high-quality math instructional materials (HQIM), how they shape students’ opportunities to reason, talk, and make sense of mathematics, and what strong implementation looks like in practice.

Grounded in ELSF’s Materials Must-Haves—Mapping Content and Language Development, Monitoring Content and Language Development, and Making Connections through Student Collaboration and Conversation—this session will explore how high-quality math instructional materials can strengthen conceptual understanding, language development, and rigorous access for multilingual learners. 

The webinar will highlight what strong math instruction and materials mean for Texas classrooms, how the Materials Must-Haves come to life in math curricula, and how leaders and teachers can apply a Curriculum Literacy lens to evaluate and implement HQIM effectively. Participants will also hear a district perspective on adopting and implementing math HQIM with emergent bilingual students at the center, including key lessons learned and the impact on student learning. Together, these insights will illustrate how intentional math materials and thoughtful implementation can expand opportunity for every learner.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify the essential features of high-quality math instructional materials that support content and language development for emergent bilingual students.
  
• Understand how math HQIM promote rigorous learning by embedding opportunities for mathematical reasoning, academic language use, and productive student collaboration.
  
• Apply a Math Curriculum Literacy lens to evaluate materials for rigor, clarity, access, and ELSF-aligned supports for multilingual learners.
  
• Recognize the district- and classroom-level conditions that make math HQIM adoption and implementation successful, including structures for collaboration, monitoring, and feedback.
  
• Connect Texas-specific examples and lessons learned to strengthen their own district’s math materials adoption and implementation processes.

Speakers:

• Janet Nuzzie, Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics, President
• Celine Liu, ELSF, Math Instructional Specialist
• Dr. Cloris Rangel, Executive Director of Multilingual Programs, Richardson ISD

Intended Audience:

• District and campus leaders overseeing curriculum and instruction.
• Educators supporting bilingual, ESL, or dual language programs.
• Advocates and partners working to advance educational equity for multilingual learners.