Overview

Alberta is renewing the Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K to 12) curriculum and the development process is happening over a number of years.

Next subjects 

Engagements will begin in late 2025 and early 2026 to gather input from education partners on curriculum content, focusing on: 

  • grades 7 to 9 science
  • high school curriculum renewal plan (approach to development and course structures)
  • 10 physical education and wellness
  • 10 career education and financial literacy

Implementation supports for teachers and students

As part of Alberta’s ongoing curriculum renewal, Alberta’s government has invested in teacher professional development and quality learning and teaching resources to support successful curriculum implementation, including:

  • $48 million in 2022/23
  • $47 million in 2023/24
  • $34 million in 2024/25
  • $66 million in 2025/26

We also provide teachers across the province with implementation supports and learning and teaching resources on new LearnAlberta, including:

  • finalized K-6 curriculum
  • over 2,500 learning and teaching resources linked to curriculum learning outcomes
  • the Provincial Resource Review Guide to support local selection of learning and teaching resources aligned with learning outcomes in the new curriculums
  • bridging documents to help transition from the previous programs of study to the new curriculum
  • videos and support documents with an overview and orientation to the new curriculum
  • Boards – a tool that allows for teacher planning, collaboration and sharing information about flexible professional learning opportunities

Watch the Welcome to new LearnAlberta video for more information.

Curriculum development history (2019 to 2025)

  • 2019/2020

  • 2020/2021

    • Nineteen Elders and subject matter experts provided advice based on their subject matter expertise and lived experience.
    • Learn more about the Advisors on Draft Curriculum.
    • The K to 6 curriculum working group, consisting of about 100 teachers from across Alberta, met virtually to discuss the draft curriculum.
    • Download the member list: Curriculum Working Group Members – Kindergarten to Grade 6
    • Approximately 30 Faculty of Education deans and professors from Alberta’s post-secondary institutions reviewed the draft K to 6 curriculum.

    The draft K to 6 curriculum was publicly released online on March 29, 2021, for review. Since then, Albertans have provided feedback many ways, including:

    • an online survey from March 2021 until February 2022
    • virtual sessions hosted by Alberta Education staff between May 2021 and February 2022
    • virtual engagement sessions where nearly 600 participants shared diverse viewpoints on each subject area and the draft social studies design blueprint in February 2022

  • 2021/2022

    • In June 2021, Alberta Education began conversations with education partners to share information and discuss the draft K to 6 curriculum.
    • Alberta Education provided approximately $800,000 in grants to support partner groups in conducting consistent and coordinated engagements with their communities so their unique perspectives could be heard.
      Alberta Education established an advisory group of education and curriculum implementation experts to provide advice and recommendations on the implementation strategy and timelines for a new K to 6 curriculum.
    • Learn more: Curriculum Implementation Advisory Group Terms of Reference

  • 2022/2023

    • New K to 6 curriculum for English language arts and literature, mathematics and physical education and wellness implemented in schools.
    • Draft K to 6 curriculum for science, French first language and literature and French immersion language arts and literature released.
       

  • 2023/2024

    From September 2023 to January 2024, we engaged with more than 900 education partners, teachers, multicultural organizations, Indigenous and francophone communities and other education specialists to inform development of a draft K to 12 social studies subject overview and the content of the draft K to 6 social studies curriculum.

    More than 12,800 surveys were completed by Albertans who provided input about what they would like students to learn in new social studies curriculum. Find out what they said:

    On March 14, 2024, we released a draft K to 12 social studies subject overview and the draft K to 6 social studies curriculum. Albertans completed more than 2,900 online feedback forms to provide input on key learnings within the draft K to 12 social studies curriculum. Find out what they said:

    On April 26, 2024, we released draft K to 6 social studies curriculum to help school authorities prepare for optional classroom piloting.

  • 2024/2025

    • Starting in September 2024, 62 school authorities and over 2100 teachers piloted draft K to 6 social studies curriculum in classrooms and provided additional feedback.
    • We considered feedback from all engagement activities and classroom piloting, as well as research and best practices, to finalize the new social studies curriculum.
    • Final K to 6 social studies was released in May 2025.
    • From January to the end of April 2025, we engaged with our partners to gather feedback on draft 7 to 9 curriculums for career education and financial literacy, mathematics, physical education and wellness, and social studies. Feedback was also collected on high school career education, financial literacy, home maintenance and physical education and wellness content.
    • June 2025, draft 7 to 9 curriculums for mathematics, physical education and wellness and social studies curriculum released for field testing in 2025/26.
    • November 2025, release of career progressions and draft 7 to 9 career education and financial literacy for field testing in 2025/26.