From locally created to nationally sanctioned: The Indiana English language proficiency standards to the WIDA English language development standards

English Language Proficiency/Development Standards (ELP/D) in Indiana is a result of the federal school accountability law of No Child Left Behind (NCLB, 2001).  ELP/D standards are intended to be connected and/or aligned with academic content standards and are intended to guide how instruction and assessment is offered and how English language learners (ELLs) can perform those standards, depending on their English proficiency level.  With the transition from the Indiana ELP/D standards adopted in 2003 to the newly adopted World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Development standards in 2013, this paper explores the history of ELP/D standards in Indiana.  This ten-year retrospective examines how the standards have impacted the overall instructional conditions for ELLs.