EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
| Appendix A: Timeline
October 2011: The Ministry of Education launches
the B.C. Education Plan in the form of a website
to garner ideas from the public about the vision of
transforming learning.
December 2011: A Curriculum and Assessment
Advisory Group, with representation of all major
stakeholders, begins to meet to create a draft
curriculum framework.
February 2012: The ministry begins four months of
travelling sessions presenting the draft framework
around the province and gathering feedback.
June/July 2012: Subject experts in core subjects
begin meeting to draft the content of the
curriculum.
August 2012: Enabling Innovation is released, a
publication summarizing the recommendations
from the Advisory group and the regional sessions.
The ministry issues "an invitation to innovate" to
school districts, encouraging them to focus on
personalizing learning.
September 2012: The ministry begins consultations
around the province on a new graduation program
for grades 10-12.
January 2013: The initial design of the framework
for the K-9 curriculum is released for public review,
along with a set of draft definitions of the new
cross-curricular competencies. Groups of teachers
and researchers begin work on developing continua
to go with the cross-curricular competencies, and
example inquiries to illustrate the flexibility of the
new content framework.
November 2013: Full drafts of the K-9 curriculum
are released for core subjects, initiating several
months of public feedback and dedicated work with
groups around the province.
September 2014: The school year starts late due to
an ongoing teacher's strike. Upon returning, some
teachers begin designing learning around the new
curriculum.
November 2014: The revised K-9 curriculum is
published in full, to become official in Fall 2016. The
documents continue to be open to minor revisions
(revised Social Studies documents are issued in
April 2015). Draft versions of the 10-12 curriculum
are released.
June 2014: The Advisory Group on Provincial
Assessment issues its first report to outline how
changes to assessment and report across the
province can support the new curriculum.
January 2015: The ministry and key educator
associations launch the K-12 Innovation
Partnership.
October 2015: The first wave of projects to be
supported by the partnership are announced.
September 2016: The new K-19 curriculum
becomes the formal requirement as of the 2016-17
school year.
September 2018: The new grade 10 courses, the
first part of the graduation program, are introduced.
September 2019: New grade 11 and 12 courses are
added to the graduation program.
January-June 2020: Students take the new grade
10 Literacy and Numeracy assessments as a
graduation requirement for the first time.
January - June 2022: Students take the new grade
12 literacy assessment as a graduation requirement
for the first time.
March 2022: The Ministry announces the
requirement that all students graduating in the
2023-24 year onwards must study four credits of
Indigenous-focused coursework as part of their
graduation program.
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