Announcement
Team Nutrition Training Grant
Attn: Superintendents, Principals, Food Service Directors
The CDE Nutrition Unit was recently awarded the Team Nutrition Training Grant, one of just 19 such grants from the USDA.
With the grant, the CDE Nutrition Unit has established three focus areas to encourage a healthy school environment:
• Increasing awareness and participation in the HealthierUS School Challenge
• Increasing nutrition education and physical activity in all schools
• Providing school level grants to further overall student wellness
CDE urges you and your school community to consider engaging in the HealthierUS School Challenge. The challenge is designed to recognize schools that have created healthier school environments through the promotion of nutrition and physical activity. There are four award levels: bronze, silver, gold, and gold with distinction. Each level receives national recognition and a check! The highest level yields $2,000.
By supporting your schools’ participation in the challenge, you are taking the first step to improving the overall wellness of each and every student. The criteria for the HealthierUS School Challenge is aimed at improving the health of children by improving the quality of food served, providing nutrition education, and providing physical education with opportunities for physical activity.
Let’s work together to make Colorado the first state in the country to have all of its schools receive a HealthierUS School Challenge award!
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For More Information, Contact:
Lindsay Hucknall
Nutrition
Phone: 303-866-6871
Email: hucknall_l@cde.state.co.us
Content Specialist Online Office Hours
Attn: Superintendents, Curriculum Directors
Online office hours with the CDE content specialists have started again this year with a focus on standards implementation.
Audio for the first two office hours held Oct. 20 & 28 on standards implementation and the common core standards, respectively, will be available on Monday, Nov. 8.
Dates and topics for the remaining office hours are:
-Wednesday, Nov. 17: Tools and activities to support 21st Century skills and the Colorado Academic Standards
-Tuesday, Nov. 30: Intentional design to support standards implementation through mission, vision and core values.
-Thursday, Dec. 9: Intentional Design: Goals, strategies, and next steps for standards implementation.
Online office hours are conducted from 3:15 to 4 p.m.
To connect to the online office hours or to view previous online office hours, please go to the link below.
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For More Information, Contact:
Mary Pittman
Office of Academic and Instructional Support
Phone: 303-866-6251
Email: pittman_m@cde.state.co.us
School Breakfast Challenge
Attn: Principals
This past July, Gov. Bill Ritter, Jr. and Commissioner Jones announced the Colorado School Breakfast Challenge. This friendly competition encouraged every school from across Colorado to expand its school breakfast participation in an effort to ensure that every student begins the day ready to learn. The top performing schools will receive cash prizes of $5000, $3000, $2000 which can be used at the discretion of the principal. Prizes will be awarded based on the largest improvement from October 2009 to October 2010 in breakfast participation.
To be considered for a cash prize, schools are required to report School Breakfast Program participation data for October 2010. To report this data, please visit the link below. Schools must report this data by November 30, 2010 to be eligible for a prize.
Self-reporting will take 5-10 minutes to complete. The information you provide will be compared to the percentage of students who participated in your School Breakfast Program in October 2009. The winning schools will be announced in January 2011.
For more information or questions, please contact Katherine Moos at kmoos@hungerfreecolorado.org or 720-328-1284.
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For More Information, Contact:
Jane Brand
Nutrition
Phone: 303-866-6661
Email: nutrition@cde.state.co.us
Conference
Math on the Planes Workshop
Attn: Attn: Curriculum Directors, Special Education Directors, Principals, Math Interventionists, Special Education Teachers, Math Teachers
Colorado Council for Learning Disabilities, Colorado Metro Math Intervention Team and Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics are pleased to announce this year’s Math on the “Planes” workshop.
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26, 2011: Promoting Geometric Thinking within the RtI Model
Geometry just may be the hidden leverage point for building mathematical understanding. Participants of this interactive workshop will learn ways to promote and assess spatial-visualization in struggling mathematics students in elementary and secondary settings. Research related to how geometric thinking can provide the foundation for learning in algebra and beyond will be shared.
This workshop will be led by Dr. Jonathan Brendefur, Ph.D. Dr. Brendefur is the director of the Institute for Developing Mathematical Thinking and is a professor of Mathematics Education at Boise State. He received over $4 million in grant funding to help teachers close the achievement gap in mathematics for struggling learners. Schools participating in these grants have shown dramatically-increased student achievement for all learners especially students with learning disabilities, English Language Learners, and students of poverty.
Please register at the link below.
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For More Information, Contact:
Mary Pittman
Office of Academic and Instructional Support
Phone: 303-866-6251
Email: pittman_m@cde.state.co.us
Event
Expanded Learning Opportunities Commission Learning Tour Continues To Limon, Loveland, Sheridan, Pueblo And Salida
Attn: Educators, After-school Program Providers, Nonprofit youth organizations, Parents and Community Members
The newly-formed Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Commission continues its listening tour with three stops next week in Limon (Nov. 8), Loveland (Nov. 10) and Sheridan (Nov. 11).
The tour will continue the following week with stops in Pueblo (Nov. 15) and Salida (Nov. 16). Precise meeting locations and times are below.
The commission, launched by Commissioner of Education Dwight D. Jones, is working to expand the vision for the entire learning experience in ways that transcend the traditional school day and traditional classroom models.
The goal is to create a vision for student learning that incorporates a blend of traditional and online learning, expands the school day and standard yearly calendar and re-thinks the traditional school experience, added Commissioner Jones.
To garner public input and support, the statewide tour is designed to listen to educators, program providers, parents and others about the challenges and successes of expanded learning time and to discuss ideas for improving programs and strengthening community partnerships.
Citizens and community members who plan to attend the meetings in person are asked to RSVP to Vanessa Roman at the Colorado Department of Education, roman_v@cde.state.co.us.
Those who cannot attend the meetings may provide feedback via an online survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/26C2Z7N. Written comments may also be sent to Vanessa Roman at the e-mail address above.
Meeting Locations and Times
Monday, Nov. 8
East Central BOCES office, 820 Second St., Limon
Time: 4—6 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 10
The Ranch, 5280 Arena Circle, Suite 100, Loveland
Time: 4—6 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 11
Sheridan High School, 3201 West Oxford Ave., Sheridan
Time: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 15
Colorado State University—Pueblo, Occhiato University Center, Cottonwood Room, 2200 Bonforte Blvd., Pueblo
Time: 4—6 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 16
Chaffee County Fairgrounds, 10165 County Road 120, Salida
Time: 4—6 p.m.
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For More Information, Contact:
Vanessa R Roman
Phone: 303-866-6678
Email: roman_v@cde.state.co.us
Federal Programs
Reminder: CSPR Training Webinars
Attn: Title I Coordinators, Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR) Respondents
In compliance with U.S. Department of Education requirements, each year CDE collects and reports additional data from all school districts receiving Title I funds. The 2009-2010 CSPR data will be collected online, during November and early December, and includes questions about how many students were served in Title I-A and I-D programs and the services they received.
Districts will be sent detailed information about CSPR data reporting and how to register their respondents. In the meantime, CDE will host three CSPR training webinars. The webinars have been scheduled for:
Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m.
Friday, Nov. 5 at 3 p.m.
To register for a webinar, contact Donna Morganstern at morganstern_d@cde.state.co.us or 303-866-6209.
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For More Information, Contact:
Leslie Baca
Office of Federal Program Administration
Phone: 303-866-6700
Email: baca_l@cde.state.co.us
Reminder
School Broadband Speed Tests
Attn: Principals, Superintendents, IT Staff
We have collected speed tests from over half of Colorado's 1,793 public schools! If your school or school district has not done so already, please click on http://tinyurl.com/myschoolbroadband to take our "fire and forget" survey.
The survey will take less than 5 minutes to complete and provides the data that may be the basis for future broadband infrastructure funding for your school(s) and community. A big "thank you" to SE BOCES for gathering speed tests on their schools as well as La Veta, Primero and Hoehne schools for participating in this ground-breaking survey!
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For More Information, Contact:
Frank Ohrtman
Governor's Office of Information Technology
Phone: 303-910-5968
Email: Frank.Ohrtman@state.co.us
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