Cyber.org K-12

K-12 Cybersecurity Learning Standards

pedagogy
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Published

May 8, 2026

At a glance

Steward Cyber Innovation Center / Cyber.org
Canonical page K-12 Cybersecurity Learning Standards
Version 1.0
Released 2021-09-09
Source format PDF
License Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0
framework_summary slug cyberorg-k12-v1.0

Structure in cybed: terms

Cyber.org K-12 structural mapping Framework cyberorg:Framework Standard group (grade band × sub-concept cell) cyberorg:StandardGroup = cybed:OrganizingUnit (no cybed:Role) Standard cyberorg:Standard = cybed:RoleElement Example clarification statements cybed:Example clarification statements contains cybed:hasOrganizingUnit has element cybed:hasElement has example cybed:hasExample
Numbered standards attach to each standard group. Clarification statements are reached through a separate connection. Click any box or edge label to flip between plain English and the technical schema name.

Counts

Measure Value
Standard groups 116
Strict elements (numbered standards) 123
With-examples elements 500
Examples (clarification statements) 377
Elements per standard group (strict) 1.1
Elements per standard group (with examples) 4.3

The strict count reflects only numbered standards. The with-examples count promotes each Clarification statement to a queryable node, which roughly quadruples the apparent density. Use the strict count when comparing against frameworks (NICE, DCWF, SFIA) that encode all detail in numbered statements. Use the with-examples count when the comparison is about what reaches a classroom.

Provenance

Source

Cyber.org K-12 Learning Standards distribution.

Ingestion

scripts/010-ingest-cyberorg.R parses standards and clarification statements into the cybed schema.

License

Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0, non-commercial use with attribution. The package does not bundle the source distribution. Users stage it locally.

Caveats

  • Each standard group typically contains one or two numbered standards, so numbered standards are sparse. The framework’s instructional density lives in the clarification-statement prose rather than in additional numbered standards. Analyses that look only at the strict count will undercount what the framework actually specifies for a teacher.
  • Clarification statements are teacher-facing pedagogical scaffolding, not enumerable sub-standards. They’re reachable through the separate cybed:hasExample predicate to keep this distinction visible at query time.
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