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CMS a host site for textbook review program
Published July 5, 2009
WALTON COUNTY - One of 13 sites across the state, Carver Middle School has been designated as host for Georgia Learning Resources/Textbook Program, providing an opportunity for educators and the public to review textbooks and other learning materials.
The review sessions are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. through July 16 in the CMS cafeteria.
Committee member Cheryl Brazelton, English teacher at Monroe Area High School, said the textbooks available for consideration are books students could potentially be using, which makes the public input part of the process important. She encouraged parents in Walton County stop by and view the material provided.
The review is open to everyone in District 7, including all of Walton, Barrow and Newton Counties.
“This gives everyone the chance to view the texts,” Brazelton said. “Everyone in the district, not just Walton County.”
The Georgia Board of Education established procedures taken during this process to ensure the quality of the materials in state classrooms. Publishers of record are given a notice by the state of courses and grades that textbooks and materials to be considered for on a given year. They are given dates for the recommendation cycle and other directives regarding how to submit their information.
Interested publishers receive complete recommendation information regarding requirements for submitting bids, forms to be completed, and regulations and deadlines.
Each year the Georgia State Board appoints committees, made up of professional educators and lay members from each congressional district and the state at large, to review resources in different subjects in order to create a state list of resources specific subject areas ranging from elementary subjects to high school state funded courses.
The list is made up of several different learning materials and textbooks to allow communities and school systems to view a variety of instructional learning resources.
The State Textbook Advisory Committees has coordinated these evaluations in each of the 13 districts, and will meet again July 28-29 after the public viewings to review the evaluations and then compile a list of state recommended texts for the state board.
Normally this state list is presented to the board at its September or October meetings, then the list is printed up to be sent to all the school systems in the state.
Foreign Languages for grades K-12, English for Speakers of Other Languages for grades K-12, and English Language Arts for grades 9-12 are the specific subjects being reviewed this summer.
The goal for this program is to give the school systems a variety of high quality texts to choose from for all elementary and middle school grade subjects and the high school state-funded courses. The state approved texts will be the most encouraged for the school systems, but having a list allows more of an option for school systems to pick the learning materials that will best suit its needs.
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