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Enhancing Language Arts Standards: A Comprehensive Update for Florida's Education

The Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Instruction and Innovation has updated the Language Arts Standards to ensure a rigorous and relevant curriculum for students K-12. This update introduces clear, grade-level benchmarks that merge old and new standards, elevating academic expectations through an emphasis on reading components, informational text, and the interplay between reading and writing. The initiative also includes resources for professional development, advising groups, and accessible online materials to support educators in implementing these updated standards effectively.

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Enhancing Language Arts Standards: A Comprehensive Update for Florida's Education

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  1. DOE Language Arts Update • Bureau of Instruction and Innovation - Overview • Standards Implementation • Advisory Group • Professional Development • Timeline • Online Resources

  2. Bureau of Instruction and Innovation - Overview

  3. DOE Language Arts Update • Bureau of Instruction and Innovation - Overview • Standards Implementation • Advisory Group • Professional Development • Timeline • Online Resources

  4. Reading and Language Arts Standards Revisions • to ensure a progression of rigor and relevance across the grades, • to create K-8 grade-level benchmarks for clarity at each grade level, • to create Grades 9-10 and Grades 11-12 benchmarks for greater clarity at the high school level

  5. Revision Purposes and Guidelines • to ensure standards meet the needs of all students

  6. How were old and new standards merged? • Selected old standards and GLEs retained but reconfigured as standards or benchmarks.  • New standards and benchmarks added where • more rigor needed and • fluidity of curriculum development needed.

  7. Expectations of New Standards • All strands and benchmarks address high academic expectations of Florida’s students • Standards reflect national move to world-class standards across curricular areas

  8. Major Emphases of Revision • Increased rigor of new standards highlights five areas: • five reading components of National Reading Panel • primacy of informational text in 21st century • interdependence of reading and writing achievement;

  9. Major Emphases of Revision • Increased rigor of new standards highlights five areas: • knowledge of appropriate language and convention choices for effective communication; and • value of research and technology skills for lifelong learning.

  10. Comparison of Old to New Strands

  11. Implementation Plan • Implementation • Advisory Group • Professional Development • Timeline

  12. Advisory Group • Member Organizations • Florida Council for Teachers of English • Florida Association for Media in Education • Council for Language Arts Supervisors • Reading Supervisors • Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence • Florida Association of Instructional Supervisors and Administrators • Florida Association of Staff Development • Florida Association of Media Supervisors

  13. Represented Groups • Classroom teachers • Library media specialists • District supervisors • University professors • Training specialists

  14. Advisory Group • Develop guidance • Districts • Schools • Identify instructional resources and materials • Enhance current crosswalk

  15. Advisory Group • Identify components of professional development • Develop content for professional development • Revise course descriptions • Develop new courses

  16. Projected Resources • Online system • User authentication • Inventory of skills • Indicators developed • Pre and post test for teachers • Performance-based scenarios • Other Materials • Paper-based • Podcasts • Online modules

  17. DOE Language Arts Update • Bureau of Instruction and Innovation - Overview • Standards Implementation • Advisory Group • Professional Development • Timeline • Online Resources

  18. Transferable – Common research language • Standard structure or process • Collaboration with educational partners • Statewide curriculum development

  19. Happy Reading!

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