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Clear Creek ISD board adopts Bluebonnet math materials after presentation and community debate
Summary
After a multi-hour presentation and public comment, the Clear Creek ISD Board voted 7–0 to adopt Bluebonnet (Great Minds/Carnegie) math materials and expand a Cambridge-aligned sixth-grade honors pilot, while trustees said the district will vet and correct materials over the summer.
Trustees for Clear Creek Independent School District voted 7–0 on March 23 to adopt the district math textbook committee’s recommendation to move forward with Bluebonnet Learning materials (Great Minds for K–5 and Bluebonnet/Carnegie for grades 6–Algebra 2) and to continue the Cambridge-aligned sixth-grade honors pilot.
The matter rooted in two presentations: a program spotlight on the Cambridge framework, which trustees said sets the district’s expectations for student thinking, and a longer instructional-materials presentation that explained how the state’s IMRA review and the district’s subject-area committees recommended Bluebonnet as a high-quality instructional material. “What we’re seeing is incredible. Students are more engaged and confident, and they’re making mathematical discoveries right in class,” secondary math coordinator Tracy Paddett said, describing early classroom results from the Cambridge pilot and the reasoning behind selecting Bluebonnet as…
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