Yearly review of the CURATE project occurs to ensure coherence and alignment with DESE guidance and resources, such as the DESE Educational Vision, Mass Literacy, English Learner Blueprint, Standards of Effective Practice, and Supporting Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Practices, among others, and to strengthen CURATE reports based on user feedback.
Beginning in August 2024, DESE instituted a process of archiving CURATE reports, to more effectively communicate quality of the most current available instructional materials that have been CURATE-reviewed by cycling outdated reports from the main CURATE reports page. An archived CURATE report communicates primarily that the report is outdated, though a previously reviewed edition of a product that received a rating that identified it as a being "high quality" is not meant to live into perpetuity. Rather, an archived report signals to a district considering a new adoption that they should investigate products with a more current review, particularly in instances when a publisher is announcing an upcoming new edition (or discontinuation of an older edition of their products which they will no longer provide implementation support for).
Publishers report they typically release new or enhanced editions of their products every three years. As recommended best practice to support continuous improvement, local education agencies (LEAs) should establish a curriculum review cycle and routinely evaluate their current materials to assess and determine the extent to which they are still well serving all their students to promote deeper learning.
CURATE reports will be archived based upon the following:
CURATE rubric version denotes the school year version of the rubric used. Thus, an SY2018 CURATE rubric version indicates that the CURATE rubric used by panelists was the version from the September 2018 to June 2019 school year. CURATE rubrics that will be used by panelists during the new school year launching in September are finalized and published in August.
Last Updated: August 28, 2024
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