• Plano ISD's Textbook Adoption Process

    The 1997 legislature removed all state guidelines for districts to use in adopting their textbooks.  Plano ISD will continue to use the following process for our district to promote community and district input.  This process involves establishing two textbook review committees and allowing the Plano community/parents to review and provide feedback for the textbooks up for adoption. 
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  • 1. Parent Input

    Parents may review the textbooks up for adoption in each subject area to determine if there is any material in the textbooks that their school/community might find objectionable.

    If a parent does find objectionable material in a textbook up for adoption, the parent may complete the Textbook Adoption Comment Form. This form can be submitted electronically or by submitting a hardcopy of the form.

    The form is given to the coordinator for that subject area to take to the committee considering that specific textbook up for adoption.  The committee can make the decision whether or not to drop that textbook from consideration. 

  • 2. District Textbook Adoption Committee (This committee must be approved by the Board of Trustees.)

    This committee is made up of the subject area coordinators, specialists, and teachers to represent the subject areas/grade levels of the textbooks up for adoption.  These committee members are experts in their content/grade level and selected by the subject area coordinators based on curriculum experience, feedback from campus leaders, ensuring representation from across the district, and having varied grade levels represented.  

    This group will work alongside the various subject area/grade level subcommittees in reviewing materials to ultimately select the resource best for our students.  

    The purpose of this committee is to review the recommendations of each subcommittee and to officially recommend a textbook to the Board of Trustees from each subject area in which there are textbooks up for adoption.  

  • 3. Textbook Subcommittees

    Each coordinator, who has textbooks up for adoption, selects experienced teachers to thoroughly study all of the textbooks that the State Board of Education has approved and/or other open source materials for their subject area/course.  Each coordinator serves as the chairperson of his/her subject area committee.  

    Textbook Adoption Comment Forms collected from parents or community members are given to the subject area coordinator.  The coordinator gives the input to the committee to consider during their review and recommendation process.  The purpose of each subject area subcommittee is to recommend the textbook to the District Textbook Adoption Committee that they believe to be the best for the district’s students.

  • 4. Textbook Viewing by the Public

    Individuals may review sample materials and provide input on materials being considered for adoption.  Proclamation 2024 pre-adoption samples of instructional materials submitted for adoption can be viewed digitally by visiting TEA website.

    To view samples of resources being considered by Plano ISD, please visit the following link.

  • Textbooks up for Adoption

    For use in Schools in 2024 – 2025

    Proclamation 2024

    • Science K-12
    • Career and Technology Education (courses in the Education and Training, Health Science, Hospitality and Tourism, Law and Public Service, and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programs of study.)
    • Personal Financial Literacy and Economics

    The following courses are not included in this Proclamation; however, new resources are needed: 

    • AP US History
    • AP Government
    • AP Comparative Government
    • AP Psychology
    • AP Human Geography
    • AP European History
    • AP Micro Economics
    • AP Macro Economics

  • Condensed District Textbook Adoption Process

    Date / Activity

    November 8, 2023: 

    Plano ISD Board of Trustees is asked to approve the recommended members for the District Textbook Adoption Committee for 2023 – 2024. 

    November 2023 - February 2024: 

    Subject area coordinators meet with their subject area textbook committees to review materials. 

    November 2023 - February 2024: 

    If needed, publishers make textbook presentations to the subject area committees. 

    December 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024: 

    Individuals may review sample materials and provide input on materials being considered for adoption.  Proclamation 2024 pre-adoption samples of instructional materials submitted for adoption can be viewed digitally by visiting TEA website.

    To view samples of resources being considered by Plano ISD, please visit the following link.

    March 1, 2024: 

    All committee recommendations and forms for the textbooks up for adoption must be turned in to the Textbook Adoption Coordinator. 

    April 2, 2024: 

    Approval requested from the Plano ISD Board of Trustees for the 2023 – 2024 school year textbook recommendations from the District Textbook Adoption Committee. 

    May 2024: 

    The EMAT system opens and the textbook coordinator begins to place orders for the newly adopted textbooks based upon the district enrollment numbers plus a percentage for growth. 

    Summer 2024: 

    Newly adopted textbooks are sent by vendors to Plano ISD for distribution to the schools for students to begin use in the 2024-2025 school year. 

  • Contact For additional information, please contact:


    Susan Hayes
    Murphy Distribution