Credit: Portales Municipal Schools in Portales, New Mexico Crystal Gonzales Curriculum development and adoption hardly gets the attention it deserves. Every few years, California goes through an extensive process to decide California’s math, language arts, history and science curricula, often without much fanfare. But the outcomes of these adoption processes have a tremendous impact on the experience students have in the classroom and their learning outcomes. This year, California’s focus is on mathematics. Here’s why we should pay more attention to what is happening. Aside from their students, what do teachers look at and interact with every day? Their curriculum. It’s what teachers use to plan their lessons, create materials and activities and guide their instruction in the classroom. Yet, too often, teachers must rely on a curriculum that doesn’t reflect the diversity in their classrooms. Nor was that curriculum developed with California’s largest growing and most marginalized population of students in mind — students whose home language is not English.