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Making Standards Anything but Standard

Check out this article demonstrating how Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District is leveraging digital resources and teacher librarian expertise to ensure students and staff have equitable access to information: Learn how the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District followed California’s K-12 History‒Social Science Framework to go from pilot program to success with  Gale eBooks  alignments | By Jenn Roush, Asst. Director of Curriculum and Instruction, District Librarian, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District | In 2016, the State Board of Education in California adopted a new History–Social Science Framework (CA HSS Framework) for California Public Schools K-12. The framework doesn’t replace the existing CA HSS standards adopted in 1998, but instead is a “road map as to how districts, schools, and teachers can better meet the diverse needs of students.” It emphasizes four key instructional shifts: the development of student content knowledge, discipline inquiry, student liter