instructional materials refresh, selecting appropriate instructional materials to fill gaps, or a complete course overhaul. • If a core instructional material s adoption is pending, assemble the instructional materials review team and develop your communications strategy. Phase 3: Review and Select Instructional Materials This tool is designed to evaluate how closely aligned instructional materials are to the Oregon Health Education Standards. It also provides suggestions of additional performance indicators to consider in the materials evaluation and purchasing process. The OR-IMET can be used to highlight specific, concrete flaws in alignment. Instructional materials must meet EC Sections 60040-60045 as well as the SBE guidelines in the Standards for Evaluating Instructional Materials for Social Content. These laws and the SBE guidelines require that instructional materials used in California public schools reflect California's multicultural society, avoid stereotyping, and decisions. Alignment to the Standards is a critical factor to consider. This tool is designed to evaluate alignment of instructional materials to the Shifts and the major features of the CCSS. It also provides suggestions of additional indicators to consider in the materials evaluation and purchasing process. 3. The materials have been evaluated on five dimensions: alignment to specific CCSS, key shifts of the CCSS, instructional supports, assessment, and summary comments which include the lessons highlights and strengths. This feedback provides a guide to important considerations in planning lessons and units. IMET is a tool for evaluating a comprehensive textbook or textbook series for alignment to the Shifts and major features of states' challenging academic content standards. For use with all levels of ELA/literacy materials and mathematics materials K-8 or high school. The IMET is a tool within the Materials Alignment Toolkit, developed by Student Achievement Partners in partnership with other aspects of quality in aligned materials. When to Use the IMET 1. Evaluating materials currently in use: The IMET can be used to analyze the degree of alignment of existing materials and help to highlight specific, concrete flaws in alignment. Even where materials and tools currently in use fail to meet one or more of these criteria, the The tool is organized into grade-level or grade-band documents and is structured to mirror the Student Achievement Partners' Instructional Materials Evaluation Toolkit (IMET). The tool includes nine sections: two non-negotiable sections and seven alignment sections. Instructional Materials Evaluation Toolkit (IMET) Mathematics K-8 6 There are five key ways enVisionmath2.0focuses coherently on the Major Work of the grade: 1.enVision math2.0is organized by CCSSM Clusters providing clear content focus. Each Cluster is developed through one or more content Topics aligned with the Standards in that Cluster. 2. independent and useful information about the quality of core English language arts instructional materials (whether digital, traditional textbook, or blended). Expert educators will use the tool to evaluate full sets of instructional materials in English language arts against non-negotiable criteria (see Figure 1). The ev