Monday, June 11, 2018
Dear District Administrators and CESA Administrators,
State Superintendent has adopted new Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies, and Environmental Literacy and Sustainability. Each of these new academic standards were developed by Wisconsin educators and experts using a transparent and inclusive process with educator and public engagement and feedback.
We have posted these new standards on the following web pages. In the future, we will post additional supporting resources and professional learning for educators related to these standards on these content area webpages. This is exciting work, and we have had very positive feedback from educators and business leaders in these areas who were engaged in reviewing these new standards.
Main DPI Academic Standards: https://dpi.wi.gov/standards
Social Studies: https://dpi.wi.gov/social-studies/standards
Environmental Literacy and Sustainability: https://dpi.wi.gov/environmental-ed/standards
Also, the State Superintendent has authorized revision of Wisconsin Standards for Theatre following the recommendation of the State Superintendent’s Standards Review Council and based on public feedback. A draft of the revised Theatre standards, being developed by our state-wide writing committees and informed by key stakeholders from the Wisconsin education and business communities, will be released in July 2018 for a 30-day public and legislative comment period, which will include a public hearing. You can follow updates on this work at our main standards webpage and on the main Theatre webpage.
Theatre: https://dpi.wi.gov/fine-arts/theatre
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, and encourage them to use these new standards.