The purpose of Section Three: Reviewing the SSCE Criteria is to give the adoption committee an opportunity to examine the State Seal of Civic Engagement in depth, keeping in mind the priorities established in the District Lens developed in Section One.
Activities in this section will give committee members an opportunity to look at what the SSCE is and how it could fit into a school and district. They will highlight strengths and challenges, based on the information that has been gathered up to this point in the process from Section One. The group will also start to brainstorm some possible ways that these challenges can be overcome and look ahead to the work in Section Three and Four for ways to implement this program and roll it out to the entire district.
Follow the path from the CDE adoption process for the SSCE and how it has gotten to this place. This document will outline how the SSCE was adopted and the process for public comment and the setting of Criteria
Review the SSCE and think about how this might look in your own classroom or at your grade level. Fill out the discussion guide questions below to help focus the work for this section and your group discussion.
The following guidance for each SSCE criterion offers ideas and considerations to structure local implementation. Each local educational agency (LEA) can determine how to implement the criteria in its own local context.
Once you have went through this section and completed the activities and reviewed the Criteria for the SSCE and the state proposed implementation of the SSCE continue on to the next section.