The Changing Face of Instructional MaterialsNOT YOUR MOTHER’S TEXTBOOKS

Anne GallagherDirector, Mathematics

anne.gallagher.k12.wa.us

Barbara SootsOpen Educational Resources Program Manager

barbara.soots@k12.wa.us

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Agenda Instructional Materials Overview

◦ Categories◦ Policy considerations◦ OER

Instructional Materials Review◦ Review instruments◦ Building a review team

Instructional Materials Work Currently Underway◦ OSPI efforts◦ Other state and non-profit efforts

Theory into Practice - Grandview School District

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Old vs New

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All materials designed for use by students and their teachers as learning resources to help students to acquire facts, skills, and/or to develop cognitive processes. These instructional materials, used to help students meet state learning standards, may be printed or digital, and may include textbooks, technology-based materials, other educational media, and assessments. They may carry different licensing types from open to all rights reserved.

Under the Instructional Materials Umbrella

Individual units, lessons, and plans Supplemental resources – formally adopted or not

K-12 core curricula District-created materials/resources

Online courses Teacher-created materials

These resources may be in any delivery platform and

carry any license

Instructional Materials Categories Core Instructional Materials are the primary instructional resources for a given course. They are district-approved and provided to all students to help meet learning standards and provide instruction towards course requirements.

Alternative Core Materials are the primary instructional materials for a given course that are used with a subset of students. These materials are intended to replace approved core materials and may be used for specialized course offerings or flexible learning environments.

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Core Instructional Materials are the primary instructional resources for a given course. They are district-approved and provided to all students to help meet learning standards and provide instruction towards course requirements.

Alternative Core Materials are the primary instructional materials for a given course that are used with a subset of students. These materials are intended to replace approved core materials and may be used for specialized course offerings or flexible learning environments.

Instructional Materials Categories Core Instructional Materials are the primary instructional resources for a given course. They are district-approved and provided to all students to help meet learning standards and provide instruction towards course requirements.

Alternative Core Materials are the primary instructional materials for a given course that are used with a subset of students. These materials are intended to replace approved core materials and may be used for specialized course offerings or flexible learning environments.

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Intervention Materials are designed to support strategic or intensive intervention for students who are at risk of not meeting established learning standards.

Supplemental Materials are used in conjunction with the core instructional materials of a course. These items extend and support instruction.

Temporary Supplemental Materials are those items used in conjunction with the core instructional materials of a course that are of interest or value for a short period of time and are chosen within district-established guidelines.

Roles and Responsibilities

Instructional Material Type

Role

Certificated Teaching Staff Principal Superintendent

Instructional Materials

Committee (IMC)School Board

Core material identify establish adoption procedure recommend adopt

Alternative core identify designate selector

Intervention Identify designate selector

Supplemental identify designate selector

Temporary Supplemental

select –within district

guidelines

OER – Helping Change the Paradigm

Open Educational Resources (OER) reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

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OER are NOT

Any free resources on the internet FREE is not the same as OPEN.

Any one specific type of instructional materialOER may fall into any of the instructional materials categories

Strictly digital resources OER is a license not a delivery platform.

A replacement for copyrightOpen licenses are just a set of permitted uses that the copyright holder clarifies.

The 5 Rs of OER

Reuse — copy verbatim

Redistribute — share with others

Revise — adapt and edit

Remix — combine resources

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OER Considerations

BENEFITS

Cost shift from textbooks to other critical areas

Up to date, innovative materials

Collaboration and partnerships

Continual quality improvement and standards alignment

Support for independent and differentiated learning

Solve legal concerns with distribution and adaptation

CHALLENGES

Finding target resources

Access and security issues

District policies that don’t recognize OER as an option

Evaluating quality and alignment

Instructional Materials Policy

http://wssda.org/Services/PolicyandLegal/FeaturedPolicies.aspx

Updated District Sample Policies & Procedures – Updated April 2015

Instructional Materials Selection & Adoption: Policy 2020; 2020P

• Electronic Resources• Employee-Created Instructional

Materials (potential new)• Media and Library

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Reviewing Instructional Material

What category of instructional materials does the resource fall into? Does the item need to go through a vetting process? By whom?

Do I have permission to use this? Is it open? What license type?

Are adaptations required and do you have permission to adapt?

What is the delivery platform? Is it accessible offline?

Before you think about using ANY resource, you need to answer some questions…

Review Lenses – Building Your Team

Teachers/content specialists◦ Quality and alignment to state

learning standards

Technology◦ Delivery platforms, access, and

security considerations

Curriculum Specialist/Administration◦ Assess the needs for successful

implementation of the instructional material at scale

CCSS Worksheet

IMET Rubric

EQuIP Rubrics

Achieve OER Rubrics

Reviewers Comments

How to Evaluate Quality

Instructional Materials Work UnderwayReview and Creation of Instructional Materials

Inform materials review and adoption process

Consider existing and currently used materials

Facilitate targeted discussions, collaboration, and professional development with publishers and other content developers

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OSPI Instructional Materials Guidance

http://www.k12.wa.us/curriculuminstruct/InstructionalMaterialsReview.aspx

Help educators select high quality materials

Provide information for materials adoptions

Identify gaps in Common Core alignment

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Washington OER ProjectOER Review and Awareness

@waOSPI_OER

barbara.soots@k12.wa.us

https://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/review/2014/report/summary.php

http://digitallearning.k12.wa.us/oer/library/

Washington OER ProjectOER Review Results

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Build on OER Review

Support district adaptation and implementation of OER aligned with state standards

All content created or modified, licensed CC BY

Provide case studies for OER implementation

Washington OER ProjectOER Grants

• partnerships between school districts, institutions of higher learning, ESDs and educational organizations

• high-quality, content–based professional learning

Washington Math Science Partnerships

http://www.edreports.org

Work Underway Beyond Washingtonedreports.org

Aligned - blog from Student Achievement Partners

http://achievethecore.org/aligned /

Instructional materials taskforce

Common Core-aligned sample lessons with explanations and supporting resources.

Instructional Materials Alignment Toolkit

Parent and community resources

Professional development resourceshttp://achievethecore.org

Work Underway Beyond WashingtonStudent Achievement Partners

National and state reports, policy briefs, surveys, and white papers that focus on preparing all students for college and careers

EQuIP

• Exemplar lessons and units

• Videos

• eLearning modules

• Peer review panel

Work Underway Beyond WashingtonAchieve

http://www.achieve.org

engage ny K-12 open curriculum in math and ELA https://www.engageny.org/common-core-curriculum

Utah State Office of EducationOpen science and math textbooks http://www.uen.org/oer/

Georgia Virtual Learning Selection of open online courses http://www.gavirtuallearning.org/

Work Underway Beyond WashingtonInstructional Materials Development

Work Underway – Beyond WashingtonK–12 OER Collaborative

www.k12oercollaborative.org info@k12oercollaborative.org

@k12oer

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