Wisconsin educators and education policymakers participated significantly in the development of the state's Blueprint for Excellence. The Blueprint's 20 standards are an integrated set of minimal expectations brought together for the purpose of making schools more effective for all students. To help school district decisionmakers review activities in their schools and determine what efforts need to be made to meet the standards, this document gives overviews, administrative rules, questions and answers, and Department of Public Instruction resources for licensure, staff development, remedial reading, kindergarten, days and hours of instruction, guidance, counseling, nursing, library services, safe facilities, health, physical education, art, music, curriculum, instruction, education for employment, children at risk, annual performance disclosure reports, high school graduation standards, personnel evaluations, third grade reading tests, achievement tests, and gifted and talented pupils. (EJS)