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NCDPI's office of Teaching and Learning 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 2025-26 school year, three content areas (Arts Education, Guidance, and World Languages) will be in the implementation phase as outlined on pages 23-24 in the North Carolina SCOS Internal Procedures Manual.
- Official Unpacking Documents for ALL Disciplines Now Available!
- One Page Quick Glances Now Available!
- Drill-Down by Gradeband for Dance & Visual Arts
- View the Arts Education Deeper Look at the Standards Webinars on the Common Framework, CONNECT, CREATE, PRESENT, and RESPOND Strands!
- The Arts Education Hub - Standards, Crosswalks & More!
- NC SCOS Internal Procedures Manual
- Arts Education Standards Revision Timeline
- North Carolina's Vision for Comprehensive Arts Education
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Want to ensure standards-aligned lessons in Dance, General Music, Vocal & Instrumental Music (VIM), Theatre, Technical Theatre, and Visual Arts? Use the NCDPI Unpacking Documents to understand key terms, vertical alignment, enduring understanding, knowledge, skills, and key insights of each objective. Then, use the teacher actions and possible learning activities to inspire your lesson planning of classroom instruction. Stay tuned for upcoming webinars on how to engage with these documents in your curriculum and lesson planning design!
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Want a quick glance at all the standards and objectives for each grade? Use the quick guides that are now available for Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts!
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These documents combine the vertical alignment and drill down documents for a quick, easy reference of the progression of the objectives for each gradeband in Dance and Visual Arts
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 The one-hour webinars of the Deeper Look Series on the K-12 Arts Education Standards on the Common Framework, CONNECT, CREATE, PRESENT, and RESPOND Strands are available through our PD catalog and Arts Education Hub! View each presentation to strengthen an understanding of the four artistic processes, standards, objective through-lines, and essential questions that are now aligned between Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. Don't forget to submit the reflection journals for CEU credit!
 The NC K-12 Arts Education Resource Hub is a repository for all Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts supporters. The purpose of this hub is to provide a space for the arts education community to explore resources that address the K-12 Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts Standard Courses of Study and access to resources that will assist with planning, instruction, and professional learning designed to support effective standard-based teaching and learning.
The K-12 Arts Education Team has designed this repository to provide a variety of resources for supporting school leaders, administrators, educators, and parents/caregivers during the installation of the 2024 K-12 Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts Standard Courses of Study for the 2024-2025 SY. This hub houses the standards, communications, and recommended resources related to the implementation of the NC K-12 Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts Standard Courses of Study. Dance, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts Educators are encouraged to browse, reference, download, share, discuss, and adapt resources to meet the needs of their own students.
This resource hub is intended to be available to all stakeholders and can be accessed with or without a Canvas account via the short URL: go.ncdpi.gov/AE-HUBLinks to an external site. Links to an external site. or the direct link ncdpi.instructure.com/courses/9487.
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During the April 2023 State Board of Education (SBE) meeting, several updates and changes were approved for the North Carolina SCOS Internal Procedures Manual.
Please replace any saved copies or hyperlinks with the new version, and make a note of where to find details for each of the phases:
- Review phase on pages 11 - 17
- Revision phase on pages 17 - 23
- Implementation phases on pages 23 - 27
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Installation Phase: 2024 - 2025
- New standards provided to all stakeholders
- NCDPI prepares statewide professional development
- PSUs develop plans for rollout of new standards in local curriculum
Initial Implementation Phase: 2025 - 2026
- New standards used in all K-12 classrooms
- PSU rollout of local training and curriculum writing
- NCDPI facilitates statewide training with materials and support documents for new standards
Full Implementation Phase: 2026 - 2027 and beyond
- Professional development at state and local levels expanded and shared with lessons learned
- NCDPI and PSUs collaborate to identify and address needs
- Annual needs assessment survey deployed to collect data on implementation and future needs
In today's globally competitive world, innovative thinking and creativity are essential for all school children. High quality, standards-based instruction in the arts develops these skills and effectively engages, retains, and prepares future-ready students for graduation and success in an entrepreneurial economy. Dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts, taught by licensed arts educators and integrated throughout the curriculum, are critical to North Carolina's 21st century education. (Senate Bill 66: Comprehensive Arts Education Task Force, 2010).
CDPI Arts Education - NCDPI Arts Education Site
@ArtsEdNC - NCDPI Arts Education X
Contact Us!
Dr. Lori Major Carlin Section Chief, Social Studies and Arts
Dr. Laura Stauderman K-12 Dance and Visual Arts Consultant
Brandon Roeder: K-12 Music and Theatre Arts Consultant
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