Science adoption process:

• The Adoption Committee has been selected and has met once to lay the ground rules and develop the Screening Tools. There are three community members on the committee. One is a parent of children in SPS.  All three are scientists.
• The Screening Tool has been developed by the Adoption Committee and revised based on recommendations from the Instructional Materials Committee and approved again by the Adoption Committee.
• We have hired an outside expert in leading district adoptions in secondary science to lead our Adoption Committee�s selection of the materials. This is an effort to keep bias out of the process.
•  The Adoption Committee will meet on Thurs., Feb. 10^th and Mon., Feb. 14^th all day to review materials.
•  Sets of instructional materials will be on display in the Stanford Center from January 31^st to Feb. 11^th.  (This is a new step in the Adoption Process. There are approximately 34 sets of materials total for Physical Science, Chemistry, and Physics.)
• Materials where on display at the SCPTSA General Meeting on Feb. 7^th and  attendants were encouraged to review the materials.

If you have any questions please contact:
Elaine Woo
Science Program Manager, Seattle Public Schools
[email protected]

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