Announcement
Supporting Safe and Positive Colorado Schools
Attn: Principals, Superintendents and Special Education Directors
This week, Oct. 17-23 is designated as safe schools week in Colorado.
Please see the School Safety Resource Center Web site at the link below for more information and suggestions about how your school and community can use the week to highlight your own efforts and accomplishments for school safety.
Call the Colorado School Safety Resource Center at 303-239-4435 for additional information or assistance.
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For More Information, Contact:
Joyce Washington
Office of Federal Program Administration
Phone: 303-866-6708
Email: washington_j@cde.state.co.us
Conference
Autism Level II Training: Preschool – Friday, Nov. 12 in Pueblo
Attn: Occupational Therapists, Paraeducators, Principals, School Psychologists, Special Education Directors, Special Education Teachers, Speech and Language Pathologists
The Colorado Department of Education’s Exceptional Student Leadership Unit (ESLU) will conduct its first Level II Preschool Autism training on Friday, Nov. 12 from 8 a.m. –4 p.m. at the Pueblo County Schools building located at 24951 East Highway 50 in Pueblo.
This one-day workshop is designed for practitioners who work in a school setting with young children who have been diagnosed with autism. Topics to be covered in the training include classroom setup, communication strategies, curricula, scheduling, and use of peers, as well as an examination of evidence-based program models and their components.
This Level II workshop is open to all participants who have previously attended the three-day Autism Introduction training. Those who do not meet this minimum but who have a similar content background are encouraged to inquire below for individual enrollment decisions.
For further information, or to register, please visit the link below.
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For More Information, Contact:
Brooke Young
Exceptional Student Leadership Unit
Phone: 303.866.6691
Email: young_b@cde.state.co.us
Event
Ten-City Public Feedback Tour - Colorado's New Assessment System
Attn: Teachers, Principals, Superintendents, District Assessment Coordinators, Community Members
The Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Department of Higher Education will jointly host a public feedback tour to learn about the draft recommendations for Colorado’s new assessment system. The tour will allow the public to provide feedback to the departments before final recommendations move to the Colorado State Board of Education and Commission on Higher Education.
All meetings will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Educators, students, parents, business and community members and interested citizens are invited to the meeting.
Meetings will take place from Oct. 25 - Nov. 9 at locations across the state. Please visit the Web site for more information.
The objective of the tour is to solicit feedback from the field about the new assessment system design. Feedback from the public will ensure the new design reflects what Coloradans want and value in the next generation of assessments.
The reactions from across the state will be used to shape recommendations of the new assessment design that will be presented to the Colorado State Board of Education and Commission on Higher Education.
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For More Information, Contact:
Emmy Glancy
Office of Standards and Assessment
Phone: 303-866-6118
Email: glancy_e@cde.state.co.us
Federal Programs
Differentiated Reading Strategies for ELL Students / RFP Webinar
Attn: Superintendents, District Personnel
On Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 9 a.m., the Office of Federal Program Administration will host a webinar for Title I districts identified for improvement that have not met the NCLB Title III Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAOs) for four consecutive years (as of 2009-2010).
The webinar will give guidance on how to write an RFP for professional development training from CAL on “Differentiated Reading Strategies for ELL Students.” The estimated range of professional development awards is between $15,000 and $30,000 per district. Specific details of the webinar will be sent shortly to eligible districts. For more information and to access the RFP please visit the link below.
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For More Information, Contact:
Morgan Cox
Office of Federal Program Administration
Phone: 303-866-6784
Email: cox_m@cde.state.co.us
C-FIRS Tracker System Update
Attn: Superintendents, Principals, Federal Program Contacts, Title I Directors, Human Resource Contacts, Technology Directors
The online C-FIRS Tracker System will be unavailable for use Tuesday, Oct. 19 through Wednesday, Oct. 20. During these two days, CDE will be updating the system.
The system will become available again on Thursday, Oct. 21. Although the “look” of the system will change, most of the functionality will remain the same.
Grants Fiscal Management will release the FY 10-11 Title I-A and Title II-D ARRA Formula Requests for Funds to eligible LEAs (via email) beginning Thursday, Oct. 21.
CDE will host webinar trainings on the updated system, as well as trainings related to uploading the School and District Unified Improvement Plans, in the coming weeks. Please consult upcoming issues of the SCOOP for those training dates and times.
Thank you in advance for your patience during this brief interruption.
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For More Information, Contact:
Jennifer Morgan
Office of Federal Program Administration
Phone: 303.866.6108
Email: morgan_j@cde.state.co.us
Webinar: Using the Unified Improvement Plan with Title I Schools
Attn: Title I and Federal Program Contacts
On Friday, Oct. 29, the Office of Federal Program Administration will host a webinar on using the Unified Improvement Plan with Title I schools on Improvement, Corrective Action, Restructuring and beyond. The webinar will demonstrate how the various requirements associated with these Title I areas can be incorporated into the UIP, so that schools operate from a single plan.
Since Title I schools on Improvement, Corrective Action, Restructuring and beyond must use the UIP this year, the webinar may prove important in guiding schools to the best use of this plan from a Title I perspective. However, any Title I school is welcome to participate in this webinar, as the first hour will walk through how to use the UIP for Title I program purposes.
The instructions and links for participating in the webinar are below. There is no need to register for this event.
Meeting Name: Using the Unified Improvement Plan for Title I Requirements
When: Friday, Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Dial in Details: 866-601-0566
To join the meeting: http://connect.cboces.org/r38919514/
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For More Information, Contact:
Brad Bylsma
Office of Federal Program Administration
Phone: 303-866-6937
Email: bylsma_b@cde.state.co.us
Comparability Training Webinars
Attn: Superintendents, Federal Program Contacts, Title I Directors, Human Resource Contacts, Comparability Respondents
The Online Comparability System will open soon!
CDE will host webinar trainings during October. Comparability reporting requires a great deal of collaboration, so everyone is encouraged to attend a webinar.
The remaining October webinar trainings dates are:
Friday, Oct. 22 at 11 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 2 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
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For More Information, Contact:
Donna Morganstern
Office of Federal Program Administration
Phone: 303-866-6209
Email: morganstern_d@cde.state.co.us
Important Due Date
Unified Improvement Planning Trainings
Attn: Superintendents, Federal Programs Contacts, Accountability Contacts
Reminder-CDE is offering a series of trainings for Unified Improvement Planning designed for those districts and schools that are required to submit a Unified Improvement Plan by Jan. 17 for a state level review to meet state and/or federal accountability expectations. The first training, for district level support for districts with schools assigned a Priority Improvement or Turnaround Plan under state accountability, is this Monday, Oct. 25 in the Metro Area.
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For More Information, Contact:
Erin Loften
Phone: 303-866-6642
Email: loften_e@cde.state.co.us
Update
Alternative Education Campus Stakeholder Meeting on Sept. 30 Available Online
Attn: Superintendents and Leaders of Alternative Education Campuses
A video of the Sept. 30 meeting for Alternative Education Campus stakeholders is now available online at: www.cde.state.co.us/media/accountability/100930WorkSession/100930WorkSession.htm
As a result of the recommendations from this meeting, for 2010-11, CDE plans to give Alternative Education Campuses a default designation of an Improvement Plan, unless the district recommends a different plan type assignment. This default designation for the year allows for CDE, in collaboration with the Colorado Coalition of AECs and AEC stakeholders, to pursue further research and development on appropriate measures, metrics and cut-points for AECs.
As a result, the October 15 deadline for AECs to submit the results of their accountability measures and a plan type assignment is no longer in effect. We strongly encourage you to still submit the data results (without associated ratings or plan types) so that CDE can support the R&D process with the field. Please also e-mail your AEC's mission and target student population, so that we can determine the appropriate groupings for stakeholder meetings. Once we have this information, CDE and CCAEC will follow up with details on how you can engage in the work sessions to refine the measures for 2011-12.
Data or information can be submitted to Somoh Supharukchinda at supharukchinda_s@cde.state.co.us.
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For More Information, Contact:
Somoh Supharukchinda
Office of Performance and Policy
Phone: 303-866-6778
Email: supharukchinda_s@cde.state.co.us
Standards Implementation eUpdate
Attn: Superintendents, Curriculum Directors, Principals
Do you want to know the latest information regarding standards implementation from the CDE Standards Implementation Team? Then tune in to online office hours on Wednesday Oct. 20 from 3:15 – 4 p.m. For an update on what is happening with the state adoption of the common core, tune in Thursday, Oct. 28 from 3:15 – 4 p.m. Log in for all online office hours at http://connect.cboces.org/officehour/.
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For More Information, Contact:
Barry Cartwright
Academic and Instructional Support
Phone: 303-866-6187
Email: cartwright_b@cde.state.co.us
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