Drafts of Wisconsin Academic Standards under Revision

Dear District Administrators and CESA Administrators,

The State Superintendent has developed and used a transparent and inclusive process to review and revise academic standards. Provided in this email for your review and distribution are links to drafts of the Wisconsin academic standards under revision that have been developed by our state-wide writing committees and informed by key stakeholders from Wisconsin, and links to surveys on the next set of standards under review for potential revision.

We are now in a 30-day public and legislative comment period. We will be holding public hearings on:

Monday, February 10, 2020, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at CESA 6 (2300 State Road 44, Oshkosh, WI).

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Department of Public Instruction (125 South Webster Street, Madison, WI) in Conference Room P41.

Following the public review, the writing committee will meet again to make changes/revisions to this draft based on input provided during the review period and present the changes at the next meeting of the State Superintendent’s Academic Standards Review Council in March.

This is exciting work, and we have had very positive feedback from educators and business experts in these areas who were engaged in the key stakeholders feedback.

I am providing you links to the news release, content area webpages, the standards posted online, and the online feedback forms available for public comment:

Link to DPI news release regarding draft standards:

https://dpi.wi.gov/news/releases/2020/public-comment-sought-draft-englis...

English Language Arts:

• Content Area Standards Page
• Draft Standards
• Public Comment Survey

Physical Education:

• Content Area Standards Page
• Draft Standards
• Public Comment Survey

Personal Financial Literacy:

• Content Area Standards Page
• Draft Standards
• Public Comment Survey

Additionally, we are starting the standards review process in three more content areas. Using our checklist and feedback from the public, we will be reviewing the current academic standards in these content areas: English Language Development, Alternate Social Studies, and Mathematics. I am sharing links to the surveys and webpages for each content area:

English Language Development:

• Content Area Standards Page
• Input Survey

Alternate Social Studies:

• Content Area Standards Page
• Input Survey

Mathematics:

• Content Area Standards Page
• Input Survey

Please contact John Johnson, Director, Literacy and Mathematics Team (john.johnson@dpi.wi.gov), if you have any questions.

Please share this information with your staff, help us shape these standards drafts, and start the review of the academic standards in these three new content areas.

Thank you again for your work and support to ensure Wisconsin has great academic standards.