How We Support Content Developers Designing for Texas
ELSF partners with curriculum developers to design and refine high-quality Texas-focused instructional materials by embedding effective Emergent Bilingual (EB) supports throughout the curriculum.
The Challenge in Texas
Emergent bilingual students make up over 1.3 million learners in Texas public schools, representing 24% of the state’s student population. The passage of House Bill 1605 reshaped the way Texas reviews and approves instructional materials. Publishers must be prepared to meet Texas’s centralized, structured review process and requirements.
How We Help
ELSF staff and consultants merge decades of Texas-instructional knowledge with language and content expertise in order to ensure:
- Emergent bilingual supports are built into core lessons and teacher guidance and not treated as an add-on.
- Materials are designed to meet TEKS and integrate ELPS
- Clear teacher moves that prevent avoidable implementation breakdowns.
Outcomes
Our approach helps developers enhance content and language development features, address gaps, and create high-quality instructional materials that meet the needs of Emergent Bilingual classrooms - all with a deep understanding and connection to Texas-specific requirements, landscape, and culture.
The Challenge in Texas
Emergent bilingual students make up over 1.3 million learners in Texas public schools, representing 24% of the state’s student population. The passage of House Bill 1605 reshaped the way Texas reviews and approves instructional materials. Publishers must be prepared to meet Texas’s centralized, structured review process and requirements.
How We Help
Emergent bilingual students make up over 1.3 million learners in Texas public schools, representing 24% of the state’s student population. The passage of House Bill 1605 reshaped the way Texas reviews and approves instructional materials. Publishers must be prepared to meet Texas’s centralized, structured review process and requirements.
- Emergent bilingual supports are built into core lessons and teacher guidance and not treated as an add-on.
- Materials are designed to meet TEKS and integrate ELPS
- Clear teacher moves that prevent avoidable implementation breakdowns.
Outcomes
Emergent bilingual students make up over 1.3 million learners in Texas public schools, representing 24% of the state’s student population. The passage of House Bill 1605 reshaped the way Texas reviews and approves instructional materials. Publishers must be prepared to meet Texas’s centralized, structured review process and requirements.
How we can collaborate
Snapshot Reviews
A fast, focused review that identifies the top improvements needed to embed strong EB supports into core materials and teacher guidance.
Evidence-Based Reviews with a Texas lens
A deeper review that provides detailed recommendations to strengthen EB integration, including language supports, access to grade-level tasks, and clear teacher moves.
Ongoing support
Support as publisher teams revise and update materials so EB supports stay consistent, usable, and aligned across the full program.
It’s critical that materials are evaluated through both English Language Arts and Spanish Language Arts lenses. In Texas, where nearly 40% of students are in bilingual or dual language classrooms, we need stronger paired texts and better translations. Our students deserve it.
