Specifications include, but are not limited to: Working with ESE, the selected vendor will design a three-day, statewide professional learning opportunity for 8th grade history & social science educators and district history & social science curriculum leaders. This civics education institute must prepare districts and educators to implement the anticipated civics-focused 8th grade history & social science standards during the 2018-19 school year. Due to the need for tight alignment to the anticipated Massachusetts standards, ESE anticipates that much of the content for the institute will be developed by the vendor during the period of this BID. Vendors with an existing civics professional learning curriculum must demonstrate how they will modify these materials to align to the anticipated Massachusetts standards, to the extent that these materials will be used in the design of the institute.