1. Civic Advocacy Network Award 2017-2018 Making Civic Engagement Part of Our School’s Culture
Six Proven Practices
Instruction in history, government, law, and democracy
Moderated classroom discussion on issues that matter to kids
Learning that begins in the classroom and spills into the community, or learning that begins in the community and spills into the classroom (Service Learning)
Extra curricular activities engaged with the community
Active, sophisticated, empowered student government
Opportunity for students to participate in simulations of democracy

2. What you can do now?
Staff professional learning around civic engagement
Reach out for community partners
Encourage student organization sponsors to look for opportunities to serve in the community
Review policies about the role of student voice in the way the school/district is administered
Begin to create an expectation of civic engagement among students and staff

3. Standards Updates

4. ELA Standards Review Progress
Please visit to see draft and provide feedback.
Standards
Standards Review
Please share the survey link with your teachers and encourage them to submit feedback to the committee.
Public meetings
Past: Newton (4/11), Emporia (4/12), Andover (4/13), Bonner Springs (4/18)
Upcoming: Oakley (5/8), Garden City (5/9), Great Bend (5/22)
On schedule for taking to the State Board late summer/early fall

5. Committee Considerations
Dance and Creative Movement Standards Review:
Moving Toward Deeper Understandings and Broader
Application of Knowledge
What is needed for Dance Education in Kansas
Committee Considerations
Base Kansas Curricular Standards on research-based National Dance Standards (adopted June 2014) and 2004 state dance standards.
Develop additional resources
Integrate state curricular goals:
Align the Philosophical Foundations with the five Rose Capacities and the goals for the Kansas State Board of Education
Address school district initiatives to meet student needs
Allow for development of assessment tools

6. Standards Framework Artistic Literacy
The goal of these standards is to assist teachers in developing curriculum that enhances embodied artistic literacy among learners.
The Dance Standards are organized into four categories across arts disciplines processes:
Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting
Each artistic process branches into Process Components
Enduring Understandings are statements summarizing important ideas central to a discipline
and that have lasting value beyond the classroom.
Essential Questions guide students as they uncover enduring understandings, sparking inquiry.
Performance Standards are discipline-specific, grade-by-grade articulations of student achievement that embody the enduring understandings.
Anchor Standards describe the overarching knowledge and understandings that all the fine arts address through guided experience.

7. K-12 Mathematics Standards Review for 2017 Board Adoption
Six town hall meetings in February & March
80 people total
Online feedback survey – 330 responses
281 Teachers
30 Instructional Coaches
15 Administrators
2 Parents
2 Post – Secondary Educators
However, we will structure our meetings in such a way to ensure vertical alignment and collaborative “checks and balances” between and within groups.

8. K-12 Mathematics Standards Review for 2017 Board Adoption
Full committee meeting in March to complete final draft
More time needed – will have a two day meeting in next couple months to finish work
Present to SBOE Summer 2017
Adopt Summer/Early Fall 2017
However, we will structure our meetings in such a way to ensure vertical alignment and collaborative “checks and balances” between and within groups.