Student Learning Standards White Paper

Secondary standards for the 38 courses accomplish the following:

• Provide clear expectations for student learning and accountability.
• Provide an essential user-friendly tool for developing instruction.
• Transform textbooks from curriculum guide to a resource for instruction.
• Provide for a complete and uniform Adventist secondary curriculum.
• Have been developed exclusively by Seventh-day Adventist educators.
• Have been aligned with the goals of Journey to Excellence
• Have been developed using national and state standards, NAD curriculum guides, and standards compendiums such as those produced by MCREL and Ten Sigma.