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c. Department of Exceptional Education ~ Instructional Resources (Not to exceed $1,100,000) ~ Updated 8.7.2025

Summary: Presented by: Dr. Norman Sauce III, Chief of Student Services, Division of Student Services
Request: It is requested that the Board of Education approve the Department of Exceptional Education’s Instructional Resources with Frog Street, Goalbook-Enome, and News2You dba Everway. These vendors have been identified to provide supplemental instructional resources for special education teachers and students supported through the Division Student Services, for more than $100,000.00 per vendor but not to exceed a total contracted amount of $­­1,100,000.
Why: According to Board Policy IFA-Instructional Materials and Content, the District must provide access to instructional resources including, but not limited to, textbooks and supplemental materials.
The DeKalb County School District (DCSD) is seeking to purchase supplemental instructional resources, to advance the mission, vision, and values by (a) improving access to meaningful content, (b) increasing awareness of sound instructional practices, (c) providing technological assets that promote creativity, connections, and innovation, and (d) engaging students in rigorous activities/assessments.
Details: Three (3) vendors have been carefully vetted and identified to ensure the selected instructional resources provide equity and access to support the full and rigorous implementation of the DCSD curriculum at all grade levels among the school district’s diverse student population. The three (3) selected vendors are: Frog Street, Goalbook-Enome and News2You (Everway).
Financial impact: The total contract amount will not exceed $1,100,000.
Charge codes:



Exceptional Education


Goalbook-Enome
404.2100.553200.05021.7340.2824.8010.094.2026


News2You-Everway
404.1000.553200.05821.7950.2820.1625.094.2026
Preschool-100.1000.553200.00011.7340.2021.8010.094.0000


Frogstreet
404.1000.561000.05821.7950.2820.1625.094.2026
Contact: Presented by: Dr. Norman C. Sauce III, Chief of Student Services, Division of Student Services
Mrs. Kiana King, Executive Director of Exceptional Education, Division of Student Services
Effective: Upon Board Approval
Status: Approved by the Office of Legal Affairs
                                          FROG STREET THREES
                                          LEARNING OUTCOMES
     Domain #1: Approaches to Learning
     Emotional and Behavioral Self-Regulation					
     P-ATL 1   Child manages emotions with increasing independence
     P-ATL 2   Child follows classroom rules and routines with increasing independence
     P-ATL 3   Child appropriately handles and takes care of classroom materials
     P-ATL 4   Child manages actions, words, and behavior with increasing independence


     Cognitive Self-Regulation (Executive Functioning)
     P-ATL 5   Child demonstrates an increasing ability to control impulses
     P-ATL 6   Child maintains focus and sustains attention with minimal adult support
     P-ATL 7   Child persists in tasks
     P-ATL 8   Child holds information in mind and manipulates it to perform tasks
     P-ATL 9   Child demonstrates flexibility in thinking and behavior


     Initiative and Curiosity
     P-ATL 10 Child demonstrates initiative and independence
     P-ATL 11 Child shows interest in and curiosity about the world around them


     Creativity
     P-ATL 12 Child expresses creativity in thinking and communication
     P-ATL 13 Child uses imagination in play and interaction with others


     Domain #2: Social and Emotional Development
     Relationships with Adults 				
     P-SE 1    Child engages in and maintains positive relationships and interactions with adults
     P-SE 2    Child engages in prosocial and cooperative behavior with adults


     Relationships with Other Children
     P-SE 3    Child engages in and maintains positive interactions and relationships with other children
     P-SE 4    Child engages in cooperative play with other children
     P-SE 5    Child uses basic problem-solving to resolve conflicts with other children


     Emotional Functioning
     P-SE 6    Child expresses a broad range of emotions and recognizes these emotions in self and others
     P-SE 7    Child expresses care and concern toward others
     P-SE 8    Child manages emotions with increasing independence




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     Sense of Identity and Belonging
     P-SE 9     Child recognizes self as a unique individual having own abilities, characteristics, emotions, and interests
     P-SE 10    Child expresses confidence in own skills and positive feelings about self
     P-SE 11    Child has a sense of belonging to family, community, and other groups


     Domain #3: Language and Literacy
     Language and Communication
     Attending and Understanding                  				
     P-LC 1     Child attends to communication and language from others
     P-LC 2     Child understands and responds to increasingly complex communication and language from others


     Communicating and Speaking
     P-LC 3     Child varies the amount of information provided to meet the demands of the situations
     P-LC 4     Child understands, follows, and uses appropriate social and conversational rules
     P-LC 5     Child expresses himself in increasingly long, detailed, and sophisticated ways


     Vocabulary
     P-LC 6     Child understands and uses a wide variety of words for a variety of purposes
     P-LC 7     Child shows understanding of word categories and relationships among words


     Literacy
     Phonological Awareness
     P-LIT 1    Child demonstrates awareness that spoken language is composed of smaller segments of sound


     Print and Alphabet Knowledge
     P-LIT 2    Child demonstrates an understanding of how print is used (functions of print) and the rules that govern how print works
                (conventions of print)
     P-LIT 3    Child identifies letters of the alphabet


     Comprehension and Text Structure

     P-LIT 4    Child demonstrates an understanding of narrative structure through storytelling/re-teling
     P-LIT 5    Child asks and answers questions about a book that was read aloud


     Writing
     P-LIT 6    Child writes for a variety of purposes using increasingly sophisticated marks


     Domain #4: Cognition
     Mathematics Development
     Counting and Cardinality					
     P-MATH 1 Child knows number names and the count sequence
     P-MATH 2 Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set (subitizing)
     P-MATH 3 Child understands the relationship between numbers and quantities
     P-MATH 4 Child compares numbers
     P-MATH 5 Child associates a quantity with written numerals up to 5 and begins to write numbers
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     Operations and Algebraic Thinking
     P-MATH 6 Child understands addition as adding to and understands subtraction as taking away from
     P-MATH 7 Child understands simple patterns

     Measurement
     P-MATH 8 Child measures objects by their various attributes using standard and non-standard measurement; uses differences in attributes
               to make comparisons


     Geometry and Spatial Sense
     P-MATH 9 Child identifies, describes, compares, and composes shapes
     P-MATH 10 Child explores the positions of objects in space


     Forerunner Skills
     FS-1      Child demonstrates classification
     FS-2      Child creates equal and unequal sets
     FS-3      Child demonstrates one-to-one correspondence
     FS-4      Child recognizes, duplicates, and extends simple patterns
     FS-5      Child identifies pattern core
     FS-6      Child demonstrates order and sequence


     Scientific Reasoning
     Scientific Inquiry
     P-SCI 1   Child observes and describes observable phenomena (objects, materials, organisms, and events)
     P-SCI 2   Child engages in scientific talk
     P-SCI 3   Child compares and categorizes observable phenomena


     Reasoning and Problem Solving
     P-SCI 4   Child asks a question, gathers information, and makes predictions
     P-SCI 5   Child plans and conducts investigations and experiments
     P-SCI 6   Child analyzes results, draws conclusions, and communicates results


     Domain #5: Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
     Gross Motor					
     P-PMP 1 Child demonstrates control, strength, and coordination of large muscles
     P-PMP 2 Child uses perceptual information to guide motions and interactions with objects and other people


     Fine Motor
     P-PMP 3 Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles


     Health, Safety, and Nutrition
     P-PMP 4 Child demonstrates personal hygiene and self-care skills
     P-PMP 5 Child develops knowledge and skills that help promote nutritious food choices and eating habits
     P-PMP 6 Child demonstrates knowledge of personal safety practices and routines



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