STEM+C; included in Standards of Learning.

STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board.Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing(STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computationalinstruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list oftopics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for theCommonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education AdvisoryBoard to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubricthat shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to be defined as a STEM school and (ii) recommendations for the Board to create a measurement for quality of STEM programmingin general education instruction. The bill also directs the VirginiaSTEM Education Advisory Board to draft and report to the Departmentof Education proposed common language and terminology that betterdefines the basic literacies employed in STEM+C as methodologicalapproaches to solving universal human challenges and, as essential,generalizable and transferable literacy toward the application ofskills and content needed to solve those challenges. The bill alsodirects the Department of Education, based on such proposed languageand terminology and no later than December 1, 2022, to recommendfinalized language and terminology to the Board of Education.