Arts

Update for World Languages, Arts Education, and Guidance

NCDPI's Office of Academic Standards serves as the authoritative source for the review, revision, and support for the implementation of state content standards in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study (SCOS).

During the 2022 - 2023 school year, three content areas (Arts Education, Guidance, and World Languages) will be in the review phase as outlined on pages 11 - 17 in the North Carolina SCOS Internal Procedures Manual.

Please see the multiple year timeline below as an overview about how we will be updating the North Carolina World Language Essential Standards. Then be sure to read about the launch of this work starting in September 2022 and find out how you can sign up for the NCDPI listservs to stay informed and give feedback throughout the process.

Learn more about the process by viewing the World Languages Newsletter and Arts Education Newsletter

Social and Emotional Learning Standards Mapping Documents

At the beginning of these documents, developed in collaboration with A+ Schools of North Carolina, you will find a short narrative of how SEL and your content area already connect, and how integrating purposeful SEL support will strengthen your students’ grasp of the content. The document then provides Activities and Practices for use in your classroom. These activity suggestions have been tailored to integrating the instruction of a core competency within your content area. The instructional practices are ways that we as educators embed those core competencies in how we speak, teach, and run our classrooms. At the end of this document you will find a quick reference crosswalk between the CASEL Core Competencies and the NC Standard Course of Study. You will find that you can easily locate places in your curriculum where you can infuse your instruction with the core competencies, because they are already present in the standard course of study. However, by integrating these competencies intentionally into our content, we engage our students more deeply while educating the whole child.

Direct Links to Content Area SEL Documents

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• Music

• Theatre Arts

• Visual Arts