HELP! World Language Standards for North Carolina

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The NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is now launching its review phase of updating the North Carolina World Language Essential Standards, our state standards for K-12 World Language learning (INCLUDING LATIN). This is an important time to help shape the future of Latin in our state.

Certainly if you are a NC public school teacher, but also if you a community member who cares about the way (and the extent that) Latin will be taught in our state going forward, I strongly encourage you to subscribe to the NCDPI listservs for World Languages at the NCDPI Email Updates page.

Three Important Ways to Help!

  1. PLEASE, please, EVERYONE, take the All Stakeholders Survey for Individuals (open to everyone, including non-teachers/community members). The more people speak to the Latin language, the better, right? (There is a place in the survey to click Latin as the language of concern, and you can take the survey repeatedly to address multiple levels of Latin instruction.) Thank you!(A little more info about the survey at this link.)
  2. Apply to serve on the Data Review Committee (DRC), whose members will review the data collected and compiled from Standard-by-Standard surveys, regional focus groups, and interviews, as well as research, policies, and legislation that pertain to World Language education. The DRC will meet periodically throughout the revision process to review and discuss data, as well as draft recommendations for revision. For full information and link to the application, follow this link.
  3. Represent NCCA at the table! NCCA may nominate up to two of its current members as representatives on the World Languages Focus Group on the standards. If you are interested, please reply to this email asap. I need to submit NCCA’s reps by this Thursday (10/20). Here are the requirements:
    1. Must attend online World Language Focus Group on Saturday, October 29 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, and will earn a Certificate Of Attendance for 3 hours.
    2. Must be a practicing World Language educator who have experience implementing the North Carolina World Language Essential Standards.
    3. Must NOT already be designated to represent their district, charter school, or institute of higher education at another World Language Focus Group on the standards.

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