Colorado Academic Standards Review and Revision Process - Group 1

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The Colorado Academic Standards for Social Studies

The standards revision committee presented their final recommendations for revisions to Colorado’s social studies standards at the June State Board of Education meeting. This provides board members and the public adequate time to review proposed changes prior to the final adoption of revisions by the State Board in the fall of 2022. All meeting materials are available using the links below.

Final Adopted 2022 Colorado Academic Standards for Social Studies (November 2022) (PDF)
Red-lined version of the proposed recommendations (May 2022) (PDF)
Clear version of the standards including proposed changes (May 2022) (PDF)
Draft additions to the introduction to the social studies standards (May 2022) (PDF)
Committee responses to feedback from Board Member Durham, Board Member Escarcega, Board Member Rankin (May 2022) (PDF)
Scope and sequence of social studies standards (May 2022) (PDF)
Public Feedback (email) received May 1-May 23, 2022 (PDF)
Civics Social Studies Recommendations (June 2022) (PDF)
Financial Literacy Social Studies Recommendations (June 2022) (PDF)
Genocide Holocaust Social Studies Recommendations (June 2022) (PDF)
Media Literacy Social Studies Recommendations (June 2022) (PDF)
House Bill 1192 Social Studies Recommendations (June 2022) (PDF)

Public Feedback submitted June 2021-March 2022 can be found on Board Docs for April 12, 2022

Standards Revision Process

July 1, 2020, through Fall, 2022

Status	Steps	Actions	Dates
		Stakeholders apply for committee membership.	October 2020- January 2021
		Public feedback open for all content area standards in group 1.	March-April, 2021
		Committees finalized.	March 31, 2021
		Committees begin to meet.	May 2021
		HB 19-1192 Commission sends history and civic standards recommendations to social studies committee.	June 2021
		Research and benchmark report to be completed.	July-August 2021
		Social studies committee considers public input, benchmarking report, recommendations from HB 19-1192 Commission, and requirements of HB 21-1103 for Media Literacy Standards, HB 21-1200 for Financial Literacy Standards, and SB 21-067 for Civics standards. Arts committees consider public input and benchmarking report. For the exact date and time of each content area meeting, visit the content area's committee webpage.	June-October 2021
		First draft of the social studies and the arts standards revisions recommendations presented to the State Board of Education for feedback.	November 2021
		First draft of the social studies and the arts standards revisions recommendations available for public feedback.	Arts: November 12, 2021- January 1, 2022 Social Studies: November 12, 2021-February 10, 2022
		Social studies and the arts committees meet to consider public and State Board of Education feedback.	Arts: January 2022 Social Studies: February/March 2022
		Summary of public feedback and final Arts standards revision recommendations presented to State Board of Education.	February 2022
		State Board of Education considers amendments to the Arts recommendations and votes for approval.	April 2022
		Summary of public feedback from Social Studies is presented to the State Board of Education.	April 2022
		State Board of Education hears final revision recommendations from the Social Studies Committee.	June 2022
		State Board of Education meets to consider final recommendations for Social Studies Standards. State Board of Education discusses amendments to revision recommendations specific to the Holocaust and Genocide studies (August 2022) State Board of Education discusses amendments to revision recommendations specific to Personal Financial Literacy (September 2022) State Board of Education discusses amendments to revision recommendations specific to Civics and Media Literacy (October 2022) State Board of Education discusses amendments to revision recommendations specific to House Bill 19-1192 (November 2022) State Board of Education adopts final Social Studies Standards (November 2022)	August-November 2022

What happens next?

Standards Transition Process

Anticipated Fall 2022, - August 2024

Local districts have two years to transition local standards, curriculum, and assessment to align to the revised standards.
CDE aligned state assessments with revisions to the standards.