HISD Instructional Materials (Textbooks) is part of the Learning Resources Department in the Curriculum & instruction Division. Department staff facilitate district compliance with Texas Administrative Code, Title 19, Part II, Chapter 66, Sub-Chapters C-E, which addresses local requisitioning, distribution, and inventory of state-adopted textbooks. Services include:
Coordination of the annual instructional materials (textbook) adoption process following the State Board of Education's Instructional Materials Adoption Proclamations;
Preparation of the annual order of newly adopted and any ancillary or additional instructional materials needed based upon year-end campus enrollment projections;
Coordination of and assistance in receiving, processing, and distributing newly adopted instructional materials and ancillary materials to campuses;
Purchase of replacement instructional materials and textbooks;
Coordination with district warehouse personnel for distribution of new and additional instructional materials and textbooks needed at campuses throughout the school year;
Coordination of retrieval from and re-distribution to campuses of surplus state-adopted instructional materials and textbooks;
Maintenance of the districts instructional materials inventory,surplus textbook materials, and out-of-adoption materials;
Coordination of the annual campus and district state-adopted and other district-purchased instructional materials inventories according to state regulations.
