Academic Standards
Textbook Approvals
2013-2014
•Total Requested for purchasing
new novels and/or textbooks
for 2013-2014 is,
$342,838.00
Entrepreneurship: Owning Your Future, 11ed.
Rationale for Request(s): The textbook currently used for
Entrepreneurship class is eight years old and needs to be updated with
more current information and examples.
Process for Textbook Selection:
• Sample textbooks were obtained
• Teachers reviewed the three textbooks and the supplemental
resources available based on the above criteria
• Complete readability/bias form
• Select textbook
• Weight of Textbook: 1.5 pounds
Business, Computers and
Information Technology
Department
• Entrepreneurship Course
for Grades 9-12
• Entrepreneurship:
Owning Your Future,
11ed.
• Author: Steve Mariotti,
2010, Prentice Hall $65
• 30 books
• Total cost: $1,950
Spotlight on Music
Grade 3
• Emphasis on quality songs.
Total cost for 10 schools,
$29, 288.
• Electronic edition included.
Lee Hauslein, District
Music Coordinator.
• National standards built in.
• Listening guides, movement materials,
world music.
• Music creation software included.
Prentice Hall Literature:
Common Core Edition
• Culmination of a five-year search. Piloted by all three
schools, plus two workshop days in 2012-2013.
• On-line materials provide more leveled reading,
differentiated assessments, reader’s notebooks,
assessments, unit resources.
• 7th Grade text will be used as an anchor text in Skills 8
and Literacy Learning.
• 6th Grade text will be used in 7th grade Skills.
• 154 texts (only class sets); 674 digital paths for all
students in the designated classes; 6 years with an
option to renew: $94, 927. $84 per student or $16
per student per year.
Connect College Reading
Engage College Reading
• 9th and 10th Grade teachers need an anchor text to teach
informational reading strategies to prepare students for the
Keystone Literature Exam, 50% of which is informational text.
• Common Core aligned, on-line teaching materials for teachers.
• Piloted by both schools in 9th and 10th grade classes: Connect in
Foundations and Engage in 9th and 10th. Teachers aligned books
to Keystone Assessment Anchors, have already created shared
resources and alignment to existing literature.
• Class sets for all 9th and 10th grade teachers 650 per school plus
on-line access for all teachers: $78, 924.63. $41.00 per student
but no limit on the on-line access for teachers.
Culinary Arts & Introduction to Food Preparation
Food for Today © 2010 Glencoe
Cathy Perkins ~ District Curriculum Coordinator
Family & Consumer Sciences
Replaces current out of date
textbooks
Updated to include latest
research-based nutrition
information
Includes new FCS Standards and
Career Resources
Focuses on project-based
learning, which integrates core
academics through topics like
Science in Action and Kitchen
Math
 Language arts and writing
activities correlated to national
standards
 Excellent Assessment
Resources to monitor
student progress and
 Supports differentiated instruction reinforce standardized test
practice
 New and revised focus on light,
 Total cost of books
healthy and International recipes
$4202.94 (30 copies for
each high school)
 Wealth of student and teacher
 $ 1,041 in free materials
on-line resources that integrate
technology in the lessons
Algebra 2
(10th grade)
Pearson Mathematics ©2012
*Includes on-line access and iPad app
145 books @ South
88 books @ North
Total Cost: $21,278
Textbook Strengths:
• Aligned to the Common
Core and Keystone
Standards
• Opportunities to apply
the Standards for
Mathematical Practice
offered in each lesson
• Supports inquiry through
hands-on experiences
• Interactive videos for
students
Forensic Science: 11th-12th grade
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NSTA Science links & labs
Up to date Case Studies
Interactive investigations
60 textbooks
Debates
Journaling
Total cost: $7,487
PowerPoint Presentations
Virtual Autopsies
Opportunities for
differentiation
• Engaging Illustrations
• e-Book included
Environmental Science for AP
11th-12th grade
• Aligned with College
Board guidelines
• “Do the Math”
prompts
• Applied Science
• AP practice questions
• e-Book included
Grant
$7,100
Textbooks (30)
$3,600
Lab Materials
$3,500
Cost to CR
$0
Council Rock Social Studies
Sociology and You
• McGraw Hill, 2014
• $85.02 (book)
• 60 books requested
• $56.97 (on-line, 6 year subscription)
• 60 books requested
• $635.22 of free materials
• Total Cost - $8519.40
Part of M-H “Networks” Program
• Text: Course Content
• On-Line: Extended Content
Correlations
• American Sociological Association
• Common Core State Standards
• Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and
Technical Subjects
• Grades 11 - 12
Council Rock Social Studies
A History of Western Society
• Bedford/St Martin’s 2011
• $113 (book)
• 90 books requested
• $98 (on-line, 6 year subscription)
• 150 subscriptions requested
• $250 of free materials
• Total Cost - $24870
B/St.M Advanced Placement Series
• Highly regarded authors
• On-Line: Book Companion site
• Ex: images, maps, pacing guide,
• History Reading and Writing Help
Correlations
• Meets College Board AP European History course
audit curricular requirements
¡Avancemos! Level 2
World Language Department
• Continuation of our Level 1 Book
• Used for both Spanish 2 and Spanish 2
Honors
• Interactive Online Student Editions with
activities, SoundBooth™ recording, audio,
video animations, and access to Interactive
Online Workbooks. 6 year license for student
online accounts
• Lessons provided to differentiate instruction
for
all learners
• $80.50 per text
• $58.90 for online edition
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We are purchasing class sets of the texts. Every student will receive an online
account. Therefore we will purchase 385 Textbooks (complimentary 385 Online
Accounts plus complimentary paper workbooks) and 395 Additional Online
Student Accounts.
Total with shipping $59,955.09
Face à Face
World Language Department
• Provides key learning components for French 4
Curriculum to prepare students for AP 5 and the
AP Exam
• Face-à-Face captures students’ interest and
encourages them to communicate in French
through a wealth of engaging text, technology, &
media resources.
• The Face-à-face Supersite— 6 years of online
access to textbook video, audio, interactive
activities, practice quizzes, study and reference
tools, and effective online assessment and course
management.
• Cost: $139.00 per book
• Total for 60 books = $9,174
AP French: Preparing for the Language and Culture Exam
World Language Department
• All new edition of highly praised test
prep book.
• Provides extensive test preparation
and practice in the same formats as
will appear on the new AP® French
Language and Culture Examination.
• Comes with an online component with
embedded audio links, voice recording
software, test preparation activities.
• $75.32 per book, includes 3-year
online access for students to provide
most up to date current events and
cultural information.
• Total: $2,259.60 for 30 books
New Textbook Requests for
2013-2014
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Business
ELA – Secondary
Social Studies
Family & Cons. Sci.
Music
Math
Science
World Language
• Total
$ 1,950.00
$173,855.00
$ 33,389.40
$ 4,203.00
$ 29,288.00
$ 21,278.25
$ 7,486.00
$ 71,388.69
$342,838.34