This document presents the crosswalk from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts to the Virgin Islands Standards of Achievement (VISA) for English Language Arts. Areas highlighted in red indicate the revisions made to the standards.

The resources shared here align to the Virgin Islands Department of Education State Literacy Plan.  With a focus on literacy as a shared responsibilty, these customized roadmaps offer strategies for integrating literacy in Mathematics, Science, History, the Arts, and the Health & Phyiscal Education classrooms.

Following an in-depth review of the CCSS for ELA, members of the ELA curriculum workgroup transitioned this document to the Virgin Islands Standards of Achievement for English Language Arts. The revised standards emerging from this work represent the Virgin Islands Standards of Achievement (VISA) for English Language Arts. Revisions are highlighted in red for easy identification for educators.

Access to ELA K-12 curriculum for educators to design lessons that will support student learning.

Here you will find resources to support the Smarter Balanced Assessment for ELA. Resources include Test Scoring Guides, Scoring Rubrics, Claims and Assessment Targets.

This document presents the difference between Standards and Curriculum. This is helpful for educators to be able to distinguish between both concepts.

This statement explains the transition that marks the journey from national academic standards to the Virgin Islands Standards of Achievement.

This document is being shared to support teachers when designing instruction to assess the Common Core State Standards, now our VISA for ELA. It was crafted by well known Education Specialists Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins copyright 2012.

This document provides a list of instructional resources aligned to content standards and assessments.

The resources housed here include the Virgin Islands Cultural Standards with the companion Kallaloo Framework to be utilized for lesson planning.

The Virgin Islands Cultural Standards and companion Kallaloo Framework are grounded in the history, language, traditions, and environment of the Virgin Islands so that teachers can create opportunities to link instruction to the everyday lives of students. The framework provides students with a strong sense of self-identity and charges students to understand the cultures of others. The rationale is that Virgin Islands students should be empathetic toward other cultures as well as be global citizens yet stand firm within their own Virgin Islands identity. Further, the Kallaloo Framework presents educators with the necessary tools to cultivate opportunities for students to play an active role in positively shaping Virgin Islands culture. The Framework provides an opportunity for educators to incorporate the Virgin Islands Cultural Standards, and, by extension, Virgin Islands History, in every classroom, in every subject area, in every school, every day.

This resource presents the Virgin Islands Standards of Achievement at a Glance in one folder on Google Docs. Here, you can access the VISA standards for one grade or several grades as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. The resource also provides all the standards for K-12 in one PDF.