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Selection policy and challenges presentation
1. Round Rock Independent School District
Policy EFA
Instructional Materials:
•Selection Criteria
•Reading Assignments
•Challenges
•Guiding Principles
2. Selection Criteria
The District, through its
professional staff, shall provide a
wide range of learning
resources…
• at varying levels of difficulty
• with diversity of appeal
• with different points of view
• that enrich the curriculum
…to meet the needs of
students and teachers.
3. Desired Results
• Students who can critically
analyze material content
• Students who can make
informed judgments
• Students who have a multi-
cultural view of the world
community
4. Selection: Criteria
Learning resources should:
• Meet high standards of quality in the following areas:
• presentation
• physical format
• educational significance
• readability
• authenticity
• artistic quality and/or literary style
• factual content
5. Selection: Criteria
Learning resources should:
• Be evaluated as a whole and selected for
their strengths rather than rejected for
their weaknesses.
• Be appropriate for the subject area and
for the age, emotional development,
ability level, learning styles, and social
development of the students for whom
the materials are selected.
6. Selection: Criteria
Learning resources should:
• Be judged by the criteria outlined and shall
be accepted or rejected by those criteria.
Instructional materials that are given as gifts
or donated to the district must meet the
criteria of the District Policy to be accepted.
7. Selection: Criteria
Learning resources should:
• Be removed when they are no
longer appropriate or when they
are lost or worn
• Not be removed from a library for
the purpose of denying students
access to ideas with which the
District disagrees.
8. Reading Assignments
• Elementary parents/guardians shall receive
a parent notification statement regarding
elementary reading selections for English
language arts instruction in the elementary
student-parent handbook. [See
EFA(EXHIBIT)]
• Parents shall receive this information at the
beginning of each school year or upon
enrolling their children in a District
elementary school.
http://www.tasb.org/policy/pol/private/246909/pol.cfm?DisplayPage=EFA(XHIBIT).pdf
9. ROUND ROCK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT PARENT
NOTIFICATION STATEMENT: ELEMENTARY STUDENT-
PARENT HANDBOOK
• This school year your child will read numerous books. Some
of the books will be assigned by the classroom teacher, but
others will be self selected. The books will be assigned based
on your child’s interest, reading level, and the Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills being learned. Because your child’s
reading abilities and interests change throughout the year,
the reading selections for your child will vary accordingly.
• A parent/guardian can contact a teacher with specific
questions about his or her child’s reading assignments and
request titles his or her child will be assigned. The
parent/guardian can request an alternate reading selection
for his or her child.
• This is included in the handbook that students and parents
sign at the beginning of the school year.
10. Reading Assignments
• Secondary parents/guardians
shall be sent a notification letter
of possible reading selections for
their students’ assignments. [See
EFA(EXHIBIT)]
• Parents/guardians are
encouraged to examine the
District’s secondary reading list
and decide what titles their
students may read.
http://www.tasb.org/policy/pol/private/246909/pol.cfm?DisplayPage=EFA(XHIBIT).pdf
11. Challenges
Do you know what to do if a reading
assignment or a library book is
challenged?
Any resident or employee of
the District may challenge
learning resources on the
basis of appropriateness.
12. RRISD Policy Requires Staff To …
• Listen to the complaint.
• Tell the complainant they would like to read/view
the material (either because they have not
read/viewed it before or it has been a while since
they read/viewed it).
• Ask the complainant if they have read/viewed the
entire work. Inform them RRISD policy requires
them to do so before discussions can continue.
• Make sure that the complainant knows that the
criteria set forth in the EFA legal and local policy is
used to reconsider the resource.
13. RRISD Policy Requires Staff To …
• Meet with the complainant within
five days of the first contact
(informal step one) to discuss the
strengths and weakness of the
book.
• During this meeting explain why the
material is being assigned as a part
of the curriculum, or why it is in the
library.
• Review the criteria and guiding
principles included in EFA LOCAL.
14. RRISD Policy Requires Staff To …
• After this first meeting, if the complainant still believes
that the item should not be used in the curriculum or
should not be in the campus library, make an
appointment for him/her to meet with the principal
(informal step two), librarian and/or teacher.
• The discussions with the principal should focus on the
Selection Criteria and guiding principles of EFA Policy.
• If after the second informal step is completed, the
complainant still wants the item in question to be
removed, explain the formal reconsideration process, and
if asked, provide a copy of the reconsideration form
found in EXHIBIT C of EFA Local Policy.
15. Formal Reconsideration Occurs If…
• The complainant completes and
returns the reconsideration
form (EXHIBIT C) to the
principal within ten working
days.
• If the complainant returns the
form, the principal will form a
Campus Level 1 Reconsideration
Committee using the guidelines
in EFA Local.
16. •A complainant can pursue a Reconsideration
through three levels:
• Campus
• District
• Board of Trustees.
•An instructional material
17. Why is it important to Follow Policy?
• It’s the law. EFA LEGAL is based on the First
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
• It standardizes the selection of instructional
materials and deals with them in a non-
discriminating manner.
• It respects the right of any parent, student, or
community member to voice his/her opinion.
• It strengthens the educational process and
supports intellectual freedom.
18. To Whom Does This Policy Apply?
• Administrators
• Teachers
• Librarians
• Parents
• Students
• Community Members
Everyone!
19. Guiding Principles
• What are the guiding principles?
There are seven criteria that
define procedures to be followed
when instructional materials are
challenged.
• Where are they?
• They are on page six and seven of
EFA (LOCAL) Policy.
20. Guiding Principles
The principal or designee shall review the selection
and objection rules with the teaching staff at
least annually. The staff shall be reminded that
the right to object to learning resources is one
granted by policies enacted by the Board.
21. Guiding Principles
No parent has the right
to determine
reading, viewing,
or listening matter
for students other
than his or her own
children.
22. Guiding Principles
When learning resources are challenged,
the principles of the freedom to
read/listen/view must be defended as
well.
24. Guiding Principles
The major criterion for the final decision is
the appropriateness of the material for its
intended educational use. No material
shall be removed solely because of the
ideas expressed therein.
25. Guiding Principles
A decision to sustain a challenge shall not
necessarily be interpreted as a judgment of
irresponsibility on the part of the
professional involved in the original
selection and/or use of the material.
27. 1. Any resident or employee of the District
may lodge a complaint about an instructional
resource.
True or False
28. 2. If a parent wants a book removed from the
library, and the principal agrees, he/she can
remove it.
True or False
29. 3. The principal of a campus must review
Policy EFA every two years.
True or False
30. 4. Policy EFA only applies to complaints
made by parents and students.
True or False
31. 5. When selecting materials for the school
library, it is not necessary to provide more
than one point of view if the ideas
expressed in the resource are correct.
True or False
32. 6. When a resource is being reconsidered, if the
complainant lists all the questionable words,
phrases, or sentences to which he/she objects, it
is not necessary for him/her to read/view the
entire resource.
True or False
33. 7. Gift materials, as long as they are free, are
not required to meet the District selection
criteria.
True or False
34. 8. When someone challenges a library book,
a reading selection, or any curricular
resource, it isn’t necessary to complete the
informal reconsideration steps if the parent
wants to fill out the EFA Exhibit Form C.
True or False
35. 9. Instructional materials are selected
because
• they enrich the curriculum
• they present more than one opinion
• they meet the needs of students
True or False
40. ANSWERS
4. Policy EFA only applies to complaints
made by parents and students.
True or False
41. ANSWERS
5. When selecting materials for the school
library, it is not necessary to provide more
than one point of view if the ideas
expressed in the resource are correct.
True or False
42. ANSWERS
6. When a resource is being reconsidered, if the
complainant lists all the questionable words,
phrases, or sentences to which he/she objects, it
is not necessary for him/her to read/view the
entire resource.
True or False
43. ANSWERS
7. Gift materials, as long as they are free, are
not required to meet the District selection
criteria.
True or False
44. ANSWERS
8. When someone challenges a library book,
a reading selection, or any curricular
resource, it isn’t necessary to complete the
informal reconsideration steps if the parent
wants to fill out the EFA Exhibit Form C.
True or False
45. ANSWERS
9. Instructional materials are selected
because
• they enrich the curriculum
• they present more than one opinion
• they meet the needs of students
True or False
