Hi everyone!
As educators, you have told us that aligning lessons, assessments, and classroom materials to the standards you actually use is one of the most important parts of making AI-powered teaching tools useful in practice. When standards are available and easy to apply, it becomes much faster to create materials that fit your local curriculum and instructional goals.
That is why we are continuing to expand the standards experience across Microsoft Education. We are excited to share a new wave of international standards coming to the standards experience in Teach and in Teams for Education. These standards will support experiences in the Teach module across Lesson Plans, Quizzes, and Rubrics, and they are also coming to Assignments in Teams for Education.
In this post, we will share what is coming this week, what is planned over the next two months, what we are targeting for summer, and how we plan to keep you updated going forward.
Why this matters
Standards alignment helps you spend less time translating curriculum requirements into classroom materials and more time supporting student learning. Whether you are building a lesson plan, generating a quiz, creating a rubric, or preparing future assignments workflows in Teams for Education, access to the right standards makes those experiences more relevant and easier to use.
Our goal is to keep expanding coverage so more educators can work with the standards they already know and trust, in more countries, subjects, and grade bands.
New standards added in 2025
In 2025, we expanded standards coverage with a new set of international additions, including:
- Austria
- Canada - Ontario
- Early Language Learners
- Health & PE
- Technology Education
- Art
- Canada - Quebec Francophone
- Canada - Ontario World Languages
- French as a Second Language
- Native Languages
- American Sign Language as a Second Language
- Classical Studies and International Languages
- Egypt
- England
- Arts Education
- Health & PE
- World Languages
- Technology Education
- Career Technical Education
- Finland
- Kuwait
- UK GCE AS and A Level Qualifications across a broad range of subject areas
These additions helped expand standards coverage beyond core national frameworks and into more subject-specific and qualification-based experiences.
Recently added
We have already started rolling out new international standards this spring. Recent additions include:
- Czech Republic
- UK additions, including recent support for Scotland, Wales, and UK GCE AS and A Level qualifications
- New Brunswick - Technology Standards
- Kuwait - Language Arts, Math, Social Studies
- Estonia - Language Arts, Math, Science
- Estonia - Social Studies
- Latvia
- New Brunswick - Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
These recent additions laid the groundwork for the next wave of standards now arriving across Teach and Teams for Education.
Coming this week
This week, we are adding the following standards to the standards experience in Teach and Teams for Education:
- Finland
- Lithuania
- Norway
- Romania
These additions continue our recent rollout of international standards and expand access for educators who want to align AI-assisted lesson creation and assessment workflows to local curriculum expectations.
Coming in the next two months
Over the next two months, we expect to continue expanding standards coverage with the following additions:
- Slovakia
- Sweden
- Egypt
- Canada - Quebec Francophone Standards
- India NCERT - Hindi Language Arts
- India NCERT - Sanskrit Language Arts
- Bahrain
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Qatar
- Greece
We also have additional standards in progress that are on the roadmap, with timing still being finalized:
- Austria
- Kuwait - Science
- India NCERT - Urdu Language Arts
- Australia ACARA National
- Technology Education
- Health & PE
- Art
- Languages
- Canada - New Brunswick additional subject expansion
- Health & PE
- Art
- Languages
- Norway vocational standards
As these become available, they will light up the same standards-backed experiences across Teach and Teams for Education.
Planned for summer
Looking ahead, we are planning an even broader set of standards expansions over the summer. This work is designed to add more international coverage across core subjects and additional curriculum frameworks.
The following are planned for summer:
- Belgium - Flemish Catholic Network Standards (VVKSO)
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Canada, British Columbia
- ADST (Entrepreneurship & Marketing)
- Career Education (Career-Life Education, Career-Life Connections)
- Core Competencies
- Canada: Ontario
- Business Studies
- Canadian & World Studies
- Co-op Ed
- Guidance & Career Ed
- Ontario Catholic expectations (ICE)
- CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
- Language Arts
- Portugal
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Germany: NRW State Kernlehrplan
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Hong Kong
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Turkey
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Vietnam
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Costa Rica
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Peru
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Guatemala
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Morocco
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Croatia
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Kenya
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Bolivia
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Chile
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Pakistan
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
- Panama
- Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
This planned summer wave reflects our continued focus on expanding standards coverage in ways that are useful for real classroom workflows across regions.
Where you will see these standards
As standards coverage expands, educators will see the impact across several experiences:
- Teach module - Lesson Plans
- Teach module - Quizzes
- Teach module and Teams for Education – Rubrics
- Teams for Education – Assignments Instructions (Coming soon)
This means more opportunities to use standards as part of lesson creation, assessment design, and classroom workflows without having to start from scratch.
What this means for educators
As more standards become available, you will be able to:
- Align lesson materials to more local and regional curriculum requirements
- Build quizzes and rubrics that better reflect what students are expected to know and do
- Use standards-backed workflows in Teach across more countries and subject areas
- Prepare for future standards-aligned experiences in Assignments in Teams for Education
For educators working across multiple countries, languages, or curriculum systems, this expanded coverage can help reduce manual work and make AI-generated outputs more relevant to your teaching context.
We plan to keep sharing updates
We also plan to share regular blog updates roughly every quarter so you can see what standards are newly available, what is rolling out next, and where we are continuing to expand coverage.
Our goal is to make these updates easier to track so educators, school leaders, and partners can stay current on what is available in the standards experience across Microsoft Education.
Helpful links
- Getting started with Teach
- Modify content - Align to Standards
- Microsoft Teams for Education
- International standards currently available through EdGate
- Request additional standards
- Share feedback with us by joining our EDU Insider Program
Have questions or want to let us know which standards you would like to see next? Drop a comment below or submit a request through our Standards Feedback form. We would love to hear what curriculum frameworks matter most in your classrooms.
Until next time,
Samantha Fisher · Microsoft Education
Microsoft