The Department’s subject matter standards are used to ensure students are being exposed to rigorous and age-appropriate benchmarks of learning. Nā kūlana are not curriculum, but expectations of what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. Visit the Department’s Paena Hoʻolālā Aʻo to learn more about curriculum design aligned to standards.
Current core Nā kūlana
Career and Technical Education (CTE) – Hawaiʻi Content and Performance Nā kūlana III
Computer Science – CSTA K-12 Computer Science Nā kūlana
- Heluhelu i ka Nā kūlana
Nā ʻŌlelo Pelekania – Hawaiʻi Common Core
- Read the current Nā kūlana for SY 2024-2025.
- Revised Hawai’i Common Core Nā kūlana for English Language Arts (Google Doc) (Newly revised and approved standards to be fully implemented in the 2025-26 school year).
Fine Arts – National Core Arts Nā kūlana
Health Education – National Health Education Nā kūlana: Achieving Excellence (NHES)
Makemakika – Hawaiʻi Common Core
Physical Education – Hawaiʻi Content and Performance Nā kūlana III
Science – Next Generation Science Nā kūlana (NGSS)
- Heluhelu i ka Nā kūlana
- Nā alakaʻi makua i NGSS:
Social Studies – Hawaiʻi Core Nā kūlana for Social Studies (HCSSS)
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Nā Papa Koho Kula Kiʻekiʻe Haʻawina Pilikino:
World Languages – Hawaiʻi World-Readiness Nā kūlana for Learning Languages
Aia ka Papahana 'Ōlelo Honua a ka 'Oihana i ke a'o 'ana ma nā 'ōlelo he 11 e like me ka 'ōlelo 'Amelika, Pākē (Cantonese a me Mandarin), Palani, Kelemānia, Hawai'i, Ilokano, Kepanī, Kōlea, Lūkia, Sāmoa, a i 'ole Paniolo, ma nā kula ha'aha'a a kula ki'eki'e.