Standards committee readies public survey and outreach; sets publication and submission deadlines

Tammy, SDC co‑chair, asked committee members to prepare a short “major changes” summary that chairs can use when they present to the State Board of Education and the State Review Committee (SRC). The summary will accompany the public survey that collects feedback on the draft standards.

Committee staff said the survey will be launched with linked materials (standards text, introductions, appendix drafts and glossary) and set a target for certain deliverables: authors were asked to place edits and drafts for items that must appear on the public survey into the final documents folder by Jan. 27; staff said the first week of February is the operational deadline to consolidate and publish the survey materials. Catherine and staff set a high response target for the public survey and discussed outreach: Catherine said they aimed for a robust response count to inform SRC members.

Leanne and other vice chairs were assigned to ensure strand introductions, cornerstones, and rationales are finalized and placed in the shared documents. The chairs will present the package to the State Board in upcoming meetings and again in the fall as part of the formal adoption process. Staff emphasized that anything not in the “final documents” folder would not be imported into the standards documents during conversion.

Next steps: editors and authors should add final edits, rationales and any appendix drafts to the SDC final documents folder by the internal deadlines; staff will compile the materials, prepare the public survey and schedule the chairs’ board presentations.