Title: First DRAFT of ND NEW Social Studies Standards
Course: BPSS (SST) Social Studies Standards > Section: Teacher Workspace > Forum: Social Studies Standards Discussions ...

The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction is currently in the process of developing K-12 academic content standards  for Social Studies. The first DRAFT of the NEW ND Social Studies Content Standards are currently posted for public review and comment through the links provided below.

As you can see there are differences. A major change is from 6 Standards to 4 Domains/Strands with different amounts of supporting standards. For example in 4^th grade the OLD had 6 Standards with 31 benchmarks while the NEW has 4 Domain/Strand with only 9 Standards. While the OLD  8^th grade had 6 Standards with 28 benchmarks with the NEW now with 4 Domain/Strands with 36 Standards. Of course there is some cross-over, but I will do more comparison this summer when working on standards in PowerSchool. Looks like a buy summer.

Since Bismarck Public School District did not have a single teacher on this committee, your only opportunity to contribute is to provide your feedback through the links the state provided. This review is open and available for all desiring to review and/or provide comments about the first drafts. In addition to this public review and comment period, a public review committee will review and provide comments to the standards development committee for the subject area. Comments from the public, as well as from the review committee, will be reviewed by the development committee and taken into consideration for development of the next draft of the standards.

State Public Input Survey Link - not sure if turn on yet.