Just got some interesting news about the textbook adoption for Dallas ISD. As you may have heard (from me), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has published 50 of my songs in the upcoming reading adoption for Kinder through 5th grade for Texas in a series titled, Texas Journeys and Texas Senderos. Last night, Dallas ISD Board Members voted in a very heated debate to adopt the Teacher's Choice for reading books at these levels instead of the recommended one from a textbook committee. Teacher votes online were overwhelming for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In other words, the Board opted to listen to the teachers! What a great move. When you consider teacher's votes, you will have buy-in from the educators who actively teach children and these teachers will break their backs to do their best because of Board confidence in their expertise. Oh, and, guess what they chose? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! Yeah! That's 500,000 more kiddoes using great resources from HMH created from scratch for this adoption with incredible stories, illustrations, resources, online technology for teachers and parents, and, of course, my music!
Go Dallas ISD! Click on link below for details. P.S. Issues with errors, which occur in every publisher's first printing, have been addressed and corrected.
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