Desert Sands's Instructional Materials Adoption Process

Instructional Materials Adoption Process

Desert Sands Unified School District follows board policy and state guidelines for adopting curriculum for our TK-12 instructional programs. Resources and policy documents as they relate to the adoption process are located under the Quick Links heading.


Below is a list and timeline of adoptions that includes the prior school year, current school year, and potential for future school years.


2023/2024 SCHOOL YEAR

High School

Board Approved March 5, 2024:

Advanced Placement - Pre-Calculus
Pearson, 2024, Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, and Algebraic 11th ed.

Advanced Placement - Statistics
BFW, 2024,The Practice of Statistics, 7th ed.

Board Approved May 7, 2024:

Advanced Placement - U.S. History
Pearson, 2024, By the People, 3rd ed.

Board Approved June 4, 2024:

Advanced Placement - Chemistry
Norton, 2021, An Atoms-Focused Approach

Advanced Placement - Language and Comp
BFW, 2023, The Language of Composition, 4th ed.


2024/2025 SCHOOL YEAR

(projected based on funding and state recommendations)

Elementary School 

Board Approved August 13, 2024

Music Curriculum

MusicPlay - Themes and Variations, 2024

Board Approved December 17, 2024

Art Curriculum 

Explorations in Art - Davis Publishing 2024

 
Middle School

Mathematics

Board Approved March 4th, 2025             

 IM360 - Imagine Learning, 2024

 
High School

Financial Literacy

Publisher under review, pending approval

Financial Algebra: Advanced Algebra with Financial Applications, 3rd edition - Cengage

African American Studies

Pending approval

Freedom on My Mind, 4th ed. - BFW

 

2025/2026 SCHOOL YEAR

(projected based on funding and state recommendations)

Elementary School

Mathematics

Publishers under review.

Eureka (Great Minds)

Desmos (Amplify)

Reveal (McGraw Hill)

iReady (Curriculum Associates)

 
 High School   

ELA

 

2028/2029 SCHOOL YEAR

(projected based on funding and state recommendations)

Elementary School

ELA

 

 

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