Power Standards help teachers focus and prioritize what is most important for students to know and be able to do in the time available for teaching and learning. Lake Washington School District teachers looked at the state’s Grade Level Expectations (GLEs), or what the state expects students to learn at each grade. Teachers asked themselves which of these GLEs best represent the key skills, concepts, and processes mastered at a given grade level. The teachers thought in terms of readiness for further study, leverage, and endurance.

1. Readiness for Further Study: Students should have an opportunity to master skills, concepts and processes that will provide the necessary foundation for being successful in their studies.
2. Leverage: Students should study skills, concepts and processes that have wide applicability to other areas of study.
3. Endurance: Students should study skills, concepts and processes that they will likely draw on throughout their lives.

Power Standards are a subset of the complete list of standards for each grade and for each subject. They represent the “safety net” of standards every teacher ensures all students learn.

Most grade level content areas have developed power standards. Others are still in development and will be available soon.

Power Standards (PS)
	Reading	Writing	Mathematics	Science	Social Studies	Technology
Kindergarten	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
First Grade	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
Second Grade	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
Third Grade	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
Fourth Grade	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
Fifth Grade	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
Sixth Grade	PS	PS	PS	*	*	*
Seventh Grade	PS	PS	PS Algebra PS Geometry PS Adv.Algebra PS	PS	*	*
Eighth Grade	PS	PS	CMP PS Algebra PS Geometry PS Adv.Algebra PS	PS	*	*
Ninth Grade	PS	PS	Algebra PS Geometry PS Adv.Algebra PS	PS	*	*
Tenth Grade	PS	PS	Algebra PS Geometry PS Adv.Algebra PS	Biology PS Chemistry PS Physics PS	*	*
Eleventh Grade	PS	PS	Algebra PS Geometry PS Adv.Algebra PS	Biology PS Chemistry PS Physics PS	*	*
Twelfth Grade	PS	PS	Algebra PS Geometry PS Adv.Algebra PS	Biology PS Chemistry PS Physics PS	*	*

* = Power Standards will be available at a later date.