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Timeline for Education and Environment Initiative

This is the draft list of tasks and completion dates for the EEI Curriculum Review.

Timeline
2009 Education and the Environment Initiative Curriculum Review

TASK COMPLETION DATE
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission (Curriculum Commission) approves review plan, evaluation criteria, Content Review Experts (CREs)/Instructional Materials Reviewers (IMRs) application November 28-30, 2007

State Board of Education (SBE) approves review plan, evaluation criteria, CRE/IMR application

January 9-10, 2008
Recruitment of CREs/IMRs April–August 2008
Curriculum Commission recommends CREs/IMRs to the SBE September 24-26, 2008

SBE appoints CREs/IMRs

November 5-6, 2008
Two-and-a-half day meeting to train reviewers April 20-22, 2009
California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) submits Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) curriculum for review

May 2009

Reviewers conduct independent review of the EEI curriculum May–July 2009

Deliberations event held (up to three days); reviewers prepare reports of findings for the Curriculum Commission

August 10-12, 2009
Curriculum Commission makes recommendations on the EEI curriculum (public hearing) to the Secretary for Environmental Protection and to the Secretary of the California Resources Agency September 2009

The Secretary for Environmental Protection and the Secretary of the California Resources Agency submit the EEI curriculum to the SBE

November 2009
SBE action on the EEI curriculum (public hearing) November 2009 or January 2010
EEI curriculum prepared for publication by CalEPA Winter 2009-2010
EEI curriculum released (California Department of Education (CDE)/CalEPA Web sites) Spring 2010

 

Questions:  Patrice Roseboom | proseboo@cde.ca.gov | 916-319-0509
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