Leon County Schools Academic Services Announces the Elementary (K-5) Social Studies Adoption Committee Recommendation

The LCS Adoption Committee, composed of educators and parents, recommends FIVE textbook adoption options to the Leon County School Board for review.

• Gallopade Media Florida Social Studies
• McGraw-Hill Florida Social Studies
• Analytic Orange Florida History Makers
• Nystrom Education Young Citizens
• Teachers' Curriculum Institute Social Studies Alive

To conclude the adoption process, LCS invites all interested stakeholders to participate in the public review period which will run from July 25, 2023 until the date of a public hearing to be held at the August 22, 2023 LCS School Board Meeting.

Stakeholders may review online versions of all the texts from which the committee selected, including the recommended text, at https://www.leonschools.net/Page/56958

September 7, 2023 - Tentative LCS Board Vote on Adoption and Purchase of Recommended Materials

Public Notice of Announcement of a Hearing for a Materials Challenge

Originally Posted by LCS Academic Services on 6/1/2023

I am Billy Jean King by: Brad Meltzer

The Hearing has been postponed to Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 10 a.m. 

School Board Meeting Room

3955 West Pensacola St.

Tallahassee, FL 32304

* This hearing is not open for public comment. The hearing officer will only hear from the challenger and Leon County Schools personnel.

The Leon County School Board is in the process of adopting ELA (English Language Arts) for the 22/23 school year.

Public School Board Meetings will be held at the Howell Building (3955 W Pensacola Street) on the following days and times:

• February 14, 2023, 6 pm (Public Comment)
• February 28, 2023, 6 pm (Public and School Board Comment)
• March 7, 2023, 6 pm (Board will recommend a selection of materials; start of the public review period.)
• March 28, 2023, 6 pm (Board will vote on adoption)

Click on the link below for additional information: https://www.leonschools.net/Page/54262 

LCS Academic Services is pleased to announce our next steps in the K-12 Math instructional materials adoption process. For each math course, material from the publisher's list has been selected as a recommendation to the LCS school board to be further considered for adoption. Our upcoming work with these recommendations includes

• February 14, 2023, School Board Meeting - Discussion recommendations and the official start to the statutorily required public review period of at least twenty (20) calendar days
• March 7, 2023, School Board Meeting - Statutorily-required hearing for public comment or challenge
• March 28, 2023, School Board Meeting - LCS School Board decision on adoption after considering the committee recommendation and the results of the public review and comment period

To view the list of products recommended by the adoption committee by course, visit the adoption website here - https://www.leonschools.net/Page/56475

To provide a comment on or challenge the recommendations for adoption, please complete the form available here -  https://forms.office.com/r/kh4WkS78xv 

To review the products that were considered during the committee period, please visit the public product previews made available from each publishing company here -  https://www.leonschools.net/cms/lib/FL01903265/Centricity/Domain/35/Public%20Review%20Links%20final.pdf

To arrange for an in-person review of hard copies of materials considered during the committee period, please email waldens@leonschools.net

The Leon County School Board approved the Human Growth & Development lessons for the 22/23 school year at the April 25^th School Board Meeting

Click on the links below to view HG&D Lessons: 

4th & 5th Grade Human Growth & Development Lessons

6-12 Human Growth & Development Lessons

Opt-Out letters for Human Growth & Development can be found at the following links:

Elementary Puberty Opt-Out Letter

Secondary HG&D Opt-Out Letter