What's Inside?

The Social Studies Curriculum Review Guide is designed to help you bring clarity and confidence to your curriculum review and adoption process.

• Depth of Knowledge and Skills: Does the curriuclum build disciplinary understanding and thinking skills in history, geography, civics, and economics?
• Structured and Coherent Inquiry Design: Does the curriculum guide students through sequenced inquiry-driven learning to build transferable knowledge?
• Balanced Representation and Multiple Perspectives: Does the curriulcum accurately represent multiple voices to build understanding and critical thinking?
• Literacy Development: Does the curriuclum develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening within social studies to build disciplinary literacy?
• Usability and Educator Support: Does the curriculum offer structured materials and embedded professional learning for implementation?