TEA Available Instructional Materials

TEA Available Materials are instructional materials that the agency has made available as an optional choice for local school systems to implement. These materials include Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials, Bluebonnet Learning pilot instructional materials, and third-party supplemental materials for secondary math and science.

Under state law, school systems in Texas have the flexibility and final authority to choose the instructional materials for classroom instruction, as long as those instructional materials, in total, cover 100% of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and do not:

  • violate provisions of Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.0022 covering “Certain Instructional Materials and Prohibitions;”
  • violate TEC, §28.0062.(a-1),covering the exclusion of three-cueing in phonics instruction; or
  • violate any other law or regulation that protects students from harmful content.

Bluebonnet Learning Instructional Materials 

Full-Subject, Tier-One Bluebonnet Learning

Full-subject, tier-one Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials are full sets of instructional materials that were submitted and approved in IMRA Cycle 2024.  

The materials provide a classroom educator with everything needed to cover 100% of the TEKS and English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) in a grade level/band, including scope and sequence, daily lesson plans, and student materials. All Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials are designed to be suitable and appropriate for their respective grade levels.   

The subjects and grade levels of full-subject, tier-one Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials available for school year 2025–26 are K–5 Reading Language Arts, K–5 Math, and 6–8 Secondary Mathematics, including Algebra I.  

Learn more about Bluebonnet Learning Reading Language Arts and Bluebonnet Learning Mathematics

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Partial-Subject, Tier-One Bluebonnet Learning

Partial-subject, tier-one Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials focus on a specific part or section of the TEKS for classroom instruction and are not intended to serve as the sole instructional materials to cover all TEKS. Partial-subject Bluebonnet Learning materials are created in alignment with the TEKS, the ELPS, and grade-level suitability, and were submitted and approved in IMRA Cycle 2024. 

The subject and grade levels of partial-subject, tier-one Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials available for school year 2025–26 is K–3 Foundational Skills (Phonics).  

Learn more about Bluebonnet Learning Foundational Skills

Pilot Bluebonnet Learning

Pilot instructional materials are Bluebonnet Learning materials that have not yet been submitted to or reviewed in the IMRA process. 

TEA may pilot Bluebonnet Learning instructional material to a limited number of classroom teachers for a limited time before the material is reviewed by the State Board of Education (SBOE) through the IMRA process (TEC, §31.0721(b)).    

Supplemental Materials: Pilot OER

The following Pilot OER supplemental materials for secondary math and science are available; however, since these instructional materials were released before COVID, they have not yet been reviewed by a third party or the IMRA process and are not currently updated by TEA. Since these materials are considered OER, there is no additional cost to access them online via the Texas Gateway. Please note that these pilot OER materials are not associated with Bluebonnet Learning and have been provided by third-party publishers.

Grade  Material Name Developing Institution License
9–12 Pilot TEA AP® Biology Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot TEA AP® Macroeconomics Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot TEA AP® Microeconomics Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot TEA Physics Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot TEA AP® Physics 1: Algebra-Based Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot TEA AP® Physics 2: Algebra-Based Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot TEA Statistics Rice University's OpenStax Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot Study Edge Chemistry Study Edge Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot Study Edge Physics Study Edge Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot Study Edge Precalculus Study Edge Creative Commons 
9–12  Pilot Study Edge Statistics Study Edge Creative Commons 

Timeline of TEA Available Materials

TEA Available Instructional Materials began as an effort to support local educational agencies (LEAs) in addressing disrupted learning from COVID-19 and helping students recover academically. TEA released COVID Emergency Release (CER) pilot versions of instructional materials for several years, enhancing and improving materials based on stakeholder feedback. These CER materials are commonly known as Amplify Texas, Eureka Math TEKS Edition, and Carnegie Learning Texas Math Solution. ​

Bluebonnet Learning. SY 20-21: CER 1.0 Pilot; SY 21-22: NA; SY 22-23 and SY 23-24: CER 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 Pilots; SY 24-25: NA; SY 25-26: Bluebonnet Learning (Texas OER Edition 1).

 
House Bill (HB) 1605 directed TEA to develop an optional set of instructional materials, subject to a review and approval process by the State Board of Education (SBOE). These materials, now known as Bluebonnet Learning, are designed to improve student academic outcomes by building foundational knowledge and strengthening skills in reading and mathematics and providing valuable curricular and instructional support for Texas teachers. 

TEA Available Materials include Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials, Bluebonnet Learning pilot instructional materials, and third-party supplemental materials for secondary math and science.

Data Collection and Privacy Practices

TEA takes data security seriously and has robust protections in place to guard confidential student data. Bluebonnet Learning Edition 1 instructional materials have a digital component only accessible by teachers to view lesson plans and related content. with no student-level data is captured on the digital version. Digital versions of Bluebonnet Learning content for students are limited to PDFs that can be shown on student laptops, although printed versions of the material are preferable for learning. Importantly, no student surveys are ever administered as part of any Bluebonnet Learning material.  

Beyond Bluebonnet Learning, all digital learning products used in schools must comply with federal and state student privacy laws. Any student data collected, in assessments or otherwise, are fully protected by federal law in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. §1232g, and Texas law including Texas Education Code §32 Subchapter D and Texas Government Code §552.114 and §2054. Any digital learning materials made available to school systems by TEA must meet high standards of data privacy and cybersecurity enforced by contract terms and conditions by TEA and for cloud services must also comply with the Department of Information Resources TX-Ramp program