Encourage service to school and community. 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA (c) The local school board shall require that a program of studies shall be offered for each high school that enables each student to engage in and demonstrate achievement outlined for graduation as well as other educational experiences and instructional activities as follows: Ed 306.31, relative to an arts education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.33, relative to a business education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.34, relative to a career and technical education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.35, relative to a career education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.37, relative to an English/language arts and reading program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.38, relative to a family and consumer science education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.39, relative to a school counseling program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.40, relative to a health education program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.41, relative to a physical education program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.42, relative to an information and communication technologies program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.43, relative to a mathematics program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.45, relative to a science education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.46, relative to a social studies program; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.47, relative to a technology preengineering education; 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.48, relative to a world languages program; and 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA Ed 306.27(b)(4), relative to extended learning opportunities. 9 – 12 Yes No NA Yes No NA
NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum meets standard Yes No NA (b) Pursuant to Ed 306.26, the local school board shall require that an English/language arts and reading program in each middle school provides: Instruction emphasizes the use of language to clarify, order, interpret, and communicate experiences including instruction in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing; Yes No Yes No Opportunities for each student to develop oral and written skills and to become acquainted with others' interpretations of experiences through fiction and informational materials, film, television, and other media; and Yes No Yes No Systematic instruction and activities designed to enable student to: Comprehend and produce progressively more complex oral and written language using various patterns of organization, such as narration, description, enumeration, sequence, cause/effect, comparison/contrast, and problem/solution; Yes No Yes No Recognize and create literary elements, such as plot, character, setting and point of view in a variety of genres; Yes No Yes No Apply the writing process, including choosing a topic, generating ideas and locating information, drafting, revising, and editing; Yes No Yes No Increase vocabulary through semantics, use of the dictionary, structural analysis, including prefixes and suffixes, and other strategies; Yes No Yes No previously learned reading skills to content materials; Yes No Yes No Acquire new reading skills and fluency through remedial, developmental, and enrichment programs; Yes No Yes No
Family and Consumer Science Education Program Standards (Ed 306.38) Required for Middle Grades: NA – No middle grades NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum meets standard Yes No NA (a) Pursuant to Ed.306.26 and Ed. 306.27, the school board shall require that a family and consumer science education program be provided in each middle school. Yes No Yes No (b) The middle school program shall provide planned learning strategies and opportunities to prepare independent, educated consumers that are literate in life skills that provide: (1) Students with teaching and instructional practice that: Prepare students for college, career and citizenship; Yes No Yes No Promote optimal nutrition education that supports district wellness policies; Yes No Yes No Use critical and creative thinking skills to promote problem solving in diverse family, community and work environments; Yes No Yes No Demonstrate creative thinking, constructs knowledge, and develops innovative products and processes using technology; Yes No Yes No Use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions; Yes No Yes No Supports literacy in math, language arts and science; and Yes No Yes No Manage the challenges of living and working in a diverse global society; Yes No Yes No (2) Experiences that support students’ 21st century learning, including, but not limited to: Collecting, analyzing, organizing, and presenting information; Yes No Yes No Decision making and problem solving; Yes No Yes No Self-management; Yes No Yes No Communication and conflict resolution; and Yes No Yes No
Physical activity; Yes No Yes No Family life and comprehensive sexuality education, including instruction relative to abstinence and sexually transmitted infections in accordance with RSA 189:10; Yes No Yes No Tobacco use prevention; Yes No Yes No Mental health; Yes No Yes No Personal and consumer health; and Yes No Yes No Community and environmental health; and Yes No Yes No assessment practices in health education that: Match goals and objectives; Yes No Yes No Require evaluation and synthesis of knowledge and skills; Yes No Yes No Emphasize higher thinking skills; Yes No Yes No Clearly indicate what the student is asked to do but not how to do it; Yes No Yes No Are at the appropriate reading level; Yes No Yes No Have criteria that are clear to students and teachers; Yes No Yes No Are engaging and relevant to students; Yes No Yes No Link to ongoing instruction; Yes No Yes No Provide feedback to students; Yes No Yes No Provide cost-effective benefits to students; Yes No Yes No Reflect real world situations; and Yes No Yes No Emphasize use of available knowledge and skills in relevant problem contexts. Yes No Yes No Physical Education Program Standards (Ed 306.41) Required for Grades K – 12 NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum standard Yes No
Create digital portfolios which: Address the following components: operations and concepts; Yes No Yes No ethical, and human issues; Yes No Yes No productivity tools; Yes No Yes No communications Yes No Yes No research and Yes No Yes No problem solving and decision-making tools; Yes No Yes No Represent proficient, ethical, responsible use of 21st century within the context of the core subjects; and Yes No Yes No Include, at a minimum, such digital artifacts as: tests; Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No work; and Yes No Yes No describing a student’s reflection on his/her work. Yes No Yes No (b) The school board shall provide opportunities for students to demonstrate ICT competency by the end of 8th grade using assessment rubrics applied to the contents of digital portfolios as required in (a)(5) above. Students who successfully demonstrate knowledge, skill, and understanding of these competencies shall have the opportunity, as high school students, to take a higher level computer course to meet the ½ credit requirement. Yes No Yes No (c) The school board shall provide opportunities for students to complete a ½ credit ICT course prior to high school graduation, including, but not limited to: Use of common productivity and web based software; Yes No NA Yes No NA Use of a variety of multimedia software and equipment; Yes No NA Yes No NA
Opportunities for all students to explore the historical and cultural development of mathematics; Yes No Yes No Opportunities for all students to: Explore mathematically-related careers; and Yes No Yes No Have direct interaction with the mathematics involved in various careers; Yes No Yes No Planned activities that promote developing mathematical concepts from the concrete to the representational and finally to the abstract level; Yes No Yes No Opportunities for all students to develop positive attitudes such as inquisitiveness, appreciation of the multiple ways to approach and solve mathematical situations, and an appreciation of mathematical patterns; Yes No Yes No Sustained projects and labs that are designed to: Incorporate multiple mathematical ideas, research, technology, mathematical communication, and interdisciplinary interaction; and Yes No Yes No Encourage students to solve problems that are meaningful and unique to their lives; Yes No Yes No Interactive instruction and sustained activities designed to enable all students to demonstrate proficiency using the concepts and skills articulated in any grade level expectations that are adopted at the state level; and Yes No Yes No Mathematics Program Standards (Ed 306.43) Required for Grades 9 – 12 NA – No grades 9 – 12 NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum standard Yes No NA
Science Education Program Standards (Ed 306.45) Required for K – 4 Grades: NA – No K – 4 grades NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum meets standard Yes No NA (a) Pursuant to Ed 306.26, the local school board shall require that a science education program in each school with the grades K-4 provides: Planned activities designed to: Develop students' critical thinking skills; Yes No Yes No Promote the acquisition of positive attitudes, including, but not limited to, curiosity, initiative, self-reliance, and persistence; and Yes No Yes No Develop an awareness of and involvement with the natural world; Yes No Yes No Planned activities designed to increase students' factual knowledge and conceptual understanding of the nature of science, unifying themes of science, and physical, biological, and earth space sciences; and Yes No Yes No Opportunities for students to develop a knowledge and understanding of process skills such as observing, classifying, measuring, and inferring through activities that allow each student to: Explore, collect, handle, sort, and classify natural objects; Yes No Yes No Use strategies to organize and identify the questions children ask from natural observations; Yes No Yes No Use tools, including, but not limited to, nonstandard measures, rulers, and magnifiers, to enhance observations and collect represent and interpret data; Yes No Yes No
Organize data in multiple ways tools of technology, including calculators, computers, and handheld electronic devices; Yes No Yes No Communicate through reading, writing, speaking, listening, creating, and viewing to describe their observations of the natural world; and Yes No Yes No Model and communicate safety and health related issues relating to exploration, activities, and inquiry associated with materials, tools, and procedures. Yes No Yes No Science Education Program Standards (Ed 306.45) Required for Middle Grades: NA – No middle grades NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum meets standard Yes No NA (c) Pursuant to Ed 306.26, the school board shall require that a science program in each middle school provides: Planned activities in grades 5-8 designed to increase students' factual knowledge and conceptual understanding of the nature of science, unifying themes of science, and physical, biological, and space sciences; Yes No Yes No
a complex planet with 5 interacting systems, namely: Solid earth or lithosphere; Yes No Yes No Air or atmosphere; Yes No Yes No or hydrosphere; Yes No Yes No Ice or cryosphere; and Yes No Yes No Life or biosphere; and Yes No Yes No a variety of renewable and nonrenewable resources; and Yes No Yes No General or advanced science which shall include subject matter appropriate to the disciplines listed in e. above; and Yes No Yes No Systematic instruction, fieldwork, experimentation and activities designed to enable students to: Know the diversity of natural phenomena and the methods of studying and classifying them; Yes No Yes No Recognize the interrelationship and interdependence of living organisms and the role of a biological organism in a physical world; Yes No Yes No Understand the scientific method of investigation, including the role of observation and experimentation in the advancement of scientific knowledge; Yes No Yes No Gather scientific data through laboratory and field work; Yes No Yes No Construct tables and graphs from data and interpret data presented in tables and graphs; Yes No Yes No Draw conclusions and inferences from data; Yes No Yes No
Planned activities designed to increase students' knowledge and skills related to technologies like medicine, agriculture, biotechnology, energy and power, information and communications, transportation, manufacturing, and construction; Yes No Yes No Courses totaling at least 4 credits in technology/engineering education with a minimum of one credit offered in 3 of the 4 areas of: Energy and technologies, including electricity, electronics, power mechanics, transportation, alternative energy, and energy conservation; Yes No NA Yes No NA Process technologies, including manufacturing, construction, wood, metal, medical, agricultural, and biotechnology; Yes No NA Yes No NA Communication and information technologies, including engineering graphics/CAD fundamentals, architectural design including modeling and the virtual environment, photography, printing, desktop publishing, graphic arts and design; and Yes No NA Yes No NA Engineering principles and design; and Yes No NA Yes No NA Systematic instruction and activities designed to enable students to: Understand the factors of production, including capital, labor, and management, in relation to industrial organization, systems and structure; Yes No Yes No Utilize the engineering design process to propose, build, test and technological problems in a systematic and economically sound manner; Yes No Yes No