The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (“the standards”) represent the next generation of K–12 standards designed to prepare all students for success in college, career, and life by the time they graduate from high school.

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K–12 science content standards. Standards set the expectations for what students should know and be able to do. The NGSS were developed by states to improve science education for all students.

A goal for developing the NGSS was to create a set of research-based, up-to-date K–12 science standards. These standards give local educators the flexibility to design classroom learning experiences that stimulate students’ interests in science and prepares them for college, careers, and citizenship.

Project AERO views social studies as a critical school subject that allows students to gain a comprehensive body of knowledge, understandings, and skills that will enable them to better understand the world as it was and currently is and provide them with the tools
necessary to become critical and creative thinkers that can solve complex world problems now and in the future.

ACTFL leads in advancing the value of world languages and empowering all learners to become linguistically and culturally competent through these strategic plan priorities:

– Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
– Outreach and Advocacy
– Teacher Recruitment and Retention
– Research
– Professional Development

Visual art helps us to ask deep questions about humanity. It fills a need in us that transcends age, ethnicity and geography. Knowledge of the arts liberates and shapes our capacity for expression; it enriches our lives and creates cultural bonds. Art teaches us how to handle ambiguity and lends an understanding that in life there is not always one answer.

National Core Arts Standards: A Conceptual Framework, is a narrative document that outlines the philosophy, primary goals, dynamic processes, structures, and outcomes that shape student learning and achievement in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts, as articulated in the National Core Arts Standards.

SHAPE America sets the standard for health and physical education in the U.S., and its National Standards for K–12 Physical Education serve as the foundation for well-designed physical education programs across the country.