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Board approves K–12 math instructional materials after district adoption committee review
Summary
Following a district adoption committee review and school-level pilots, trustees approved recommendations for K–12 mathematics instructional materials, endorsing Great Minds/Eureka Math Squared in elementary grades and Savvas Envision at the middle school level.
The Lexington County School District One Board of Trustees approved recommendations March 25 from district instructional materials adoption committees to adopt new K–12 mathematics materials following a review and school-level pilot process.
District staff said the state provided an approved list of publishers and that district adoption committees used a district rubric aligned to the state rubric and the Lexington 1 math instructional framework to evaluate options. Elementary, middle and high-school teachers and coaches participated in the review, including school-level pilots and teacher feedback sessions during collaborative planning time.
Elementary math coach Heather Barahona described a process in which building teams evaluated curricula against the district’s math instructional framework and found Great Minds’ Eureka Math Squared to be the best fit. Barahona said the program’s four-part lesson structure aligned with the district’s math workshop model, its use of concrete–representational–abstract models matched professional learning emphases, and its embedded formative tools and intervention platforms (including a small-group intervention platform) supported teachers’ ability to target student needs.
At the middle-school level, Melissa (last name redacted in transcript) described teachers’ experience with competing materials. Middle-school teachers favored the Savvas Envision digital platform for its worked examples, depth-of-knowledge tagging, and digital practice features that allow teachers to differentiate questions by DOK level.
High-school selections were made course-by-course; staff said selected materials provide curricular coherence through some school levels and digital access balanced with print resources where appropriate.
Trustees moved and approved the adoption recommendations after a brief discussion of pilot processes and materials distribution; the board vote approved the committee-recommended selections. The district will distribute details to schools about consumable student materials, teacher access and digital platforms, and will prioritize family access to take-home resources where parents requested them.
District staff said K–5 will receive consumable workbooks (about six modules per grade) and supporting classroom materials and that middle-school and high-school courses will receive combinations of printed texts and digital access according to the adopted bundles.
The board’s approval concludes the district’s adoption process for math instructional materials for the coming years and initiates ordering and implementation planning.
