Announcement
Gifted Education State Advisory Committee Vacancies for Spring 2010
Attn: Parents, Educators, School or District Administrators, Community Representatives
The Colorado State Advisory Committee for Gifted Education (SAC) has positions open to fill three-year terms. SAC provides advice and makes recommendations to the state board of education concerning all aspects of gifted student education.
The State Advisory Committee notifies the state board of vacancies. At a future state board meeting, SAC will submit names and biographical information or resumes for recommended appointments. For more information, visit the link below.
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For More Information, Contact:
Jacquelin Medina Director/Gifted Education
Gifted Education
Phone: 303.866.6652
Email: medina_j@cde.state.co.us
Title X of NCLB Funding Opportunity for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
Attn: Colorado Superintendents, BOCES Directors, District McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Liaisons, Title IA Directors
A new round of funding is available through CDEs Title X McKinney-Vento Homeless Education program. For the 2010-11 school year, grants up to $45,000 will be made available to local education agencies and boards of cooperative educational services to ensure educational access, school stability and academic success for children and youth experiencing homelessness. Applicants are eligible to apply for this funding through the recently released McKinney-Vento Homeless Education competitive request for proposal (RFP) process. During the last grant cycle, 16 LEAs and one BOCES received funding as a part of this grant opportunity.
This McKinney-Vento Homeless Education grant process will begin a new three-year funding period from July 1, 2010-June 30, 2013. To apply for the funds, complete the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education RFP and accompanying documents found on CDEs McKinney-Vento Web page using the link below or by contacting Dana Scott at scott_d@cde.state.co.us.
All submission materials must be postmarked or delivered to CDE by 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 20. Submitted grant proposals will be screened by a review panel and notification of grant decisions will be made by Friday, June 11, 2010, with funding available July 1, 2010.
CDE is hosting conference calls to discuss the RFP and answer questions. Joining the call will be Dana Scott, McKinney-Vento state coordinator and Marti Rodriguez of CDE's Grants Fiscal Management Unit. Call dates and times are as follows:
Thursday, April 22 at 4 p.m.
Thursday, April 29 at 3:30 p.m.
To join the call, please dial 1-866-751-5726 then *8345721* (be sure to push the star button before and after the code).
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For More Information, Contact:
Dana Scott, State Coordinator for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
Prevention Initiatives
Phone: 303-866-6930
Email: scott_d@cde.state.co.us
Increased Access to CELApro GTI and Summary Data Posted
Attn: District Assessment Coordinators, ELA Coordinators/Directors, Educators
The CELApro Interpretation Guide (GTI) is now available at the link below. The Interpretation Guide provides:
General overview of the CELApro technical qualities
Assessment content descriptions
CELApro score ranges, cut scores, and level descriptors per domain and grade
Overall Score Ranges and Cut Scores for CELApro NEP, LEP and FEP
Look for the summary data, by district and school, for 2010 CELApro assessment to be posted on the CDE Website by Friday, April 16. Districts will receive CELApro student reports this week.
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For More Information, Contact:
Liliana Graham
Standards and Assessment
Phone: 303 866-6634
Email: graham_l@cde.state.co.us
Conference
Notification of CHPS Training: New Solutions for Green Schools in Colorado
Attn: Superintendents, Business Managers, Facility Directors
Colorado Collaborative for High Performing Schools (CO-CHPS) creates a benchmark for the design and construction of Colorado high performance school buildings that are efficient, comfortable, environmentally responsible and healthy spaces.
For the past year, a Colorado-based advisory committee, representing a broad range of school design and construction stakeholders, developed CO-CHPS. The committee, in partnership with the Colorado Governor's Energy Office, created a CHPS Criteria to the unique codes and regulations, climates, opportunities and local priorities of the state.
Join CHPS for an in-depth training session in Colorado this April: New Solutions for Green Schools in Colorado. School and district facility planners, design professionals, energy consultants and other interested industry professionals in Colorado will benefit from these in-person seminars to promote green, healthy Colorado schools.
Facilitated by CHPS staff and local partners, the training will provide an in-depth review of the CO-CHPS program and resources. Participants will learn about CHPS' program offerings, the CO-CHPS prerequisites and credits and hear from practitioners on how to implement high performance schools in Colorado. The training will include a credit-by-credit review of CO-CHPS, as well as case studies from local school district energy managers and presentations from the Governor's Energy Office and from CDE's BEST program.
Space is limited, so sign up early!
. Monday, April 26 in Grand Junction
. Wednesday, April 28 in Colorado Springs
. Thursday, April 29 in Denver
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For More Information, Contact:
Miranda Leonard
Education and Events Coordinator
Phone: 415-970-6605
Email: mleonard@chps.net
FREE GEO Webinar: Operations and Maintenance 101 and 201 for High Performance Buildings
Attn: Superintendents (Building Owners); Facility, Operations and Maintenance Personnel; and Building Planners
Created specifically for building maintenance and operations staff, this webinar will provide a big-picture view of the impact of operations and maintenance on building performance, occupant comfort, energy consumption, operation cost and maintenance cost. Attendees will gain an understanding of high performance systems, commissioning and recommissioning, ENERGY STAR and LEED EB among other topics.
Date & Time: Friday, April 23; 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. MDT
AGENDA:
1. Defining a high performance building
2. High performance building systems
3. Typical maintenance needs of high performance systems
4. Strategies for utility bill management and building automation systems
5. The role of commissioning and re-commissioning in operations and maintenance
6. High performance operations and maintenance for existing buildings
7. Energy Star & LEED EB
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Understand basic skill sets needed and resources available for operating a high performance building.
Develop knowledge base of typical high performance building systems and discuss special considerations those features.
Learn ways to identify and overcome challenges that often undermine system performance.
Broaden understanding of available tools and techniques for tracking and monitoring utility bills and system performance to optimize building performance, energy savings, and cost savings.
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For More Information, Contact:
Conor Merrigan, High Performance Building Program Manager
Governors Energy Office
Phone: (303) 866-3965
Email: Conor.merrigan@state.co.us
Important Due Date
Summer Food Service Program
Attn: Superintendents, Principals, Food Service Directors
The deadline for the Summer Food Service Program is fast approaching! Your application must be postmarked by Friday, April 23 or you can submit your application in person to the CDE Nutrition Unit at 201 East Colfax Avenue, Suite 201, in Denver.
Thank you for feeding Colorados hungry children.
For More Information, Contact:
Connie Harlow
Nutrition
Phone: 303-866-6650
Email: harlow_C@cde.state.co.us
Timeline for 2009-10 Student End of Year Data Collection
Attn: Superintendents, Principals, District Registrars
The Student End of Year data collection for the 2009-10 school year will open on Monday, May 17. To ensure the successful and timely completion of this collection by all districts and BOCES the following milestones and deadlines have been implemented:
June 1 All districts submit at least one complete set of EOY files and pass preliminary edit checks.
June 14 Pass first level edit checks
Sept. 10 Pass all remaining edit checks and review Data Summary Reports
Sept. 15 All districts must approve initial Data Summary Reports (Data Submission Phase closes). THIS DEADLINE IS MANDATED UNDER COLORADO ADMINISTRATIVE RULES.
October 4 Post Collection Phase A opens (reclaiming dropouts from prior collection years)
October 22 Post Collection Phase A closes
October 29 Post Collection Phase B opens (verifying transfers and dropouts within Colorado)
December 3 Post Collection Phase B closes
December 10 Superintendents must approve final Data Summary Reports
Mid-January 2011 Official/final data and rates posted on the CDE Web site and released to the public (graduation rates, completion rates, dropout rates, and mobility rates)
The Student End of Year report is a large and complex data collection effort. Each district should plan to dedicate significant staff hours to complete the report over the seven month collection period. In order to be successful, district staff assigned to the EOY collection should have the ability to focus a substantial amount of time to the collection particularly during peak periods of activity the last two weeks of May, early June, late August, and early September.
Thank you for your support and leadership in making the 2009-10 EOY a successful, accurate and timely data collection.
For More Information, Contact:
Peter Fritz
Information Management Services
Phone: (303) 866-6175
Email: fritz_p@cde.state.co.us
To Do
Updates to Administrative Unit Contact Information
Attn: Special Education Directors, Gifted/Talented Directors/Coordinators
Please e-mail both Jenny Ballou (ballou_j@cde.state.co.us) and Wendy Ulibarri (ulibarri_w@cde.state.co.us) when there are changes to your administrative unit's contact information, such as: new or interim special education directors; new gifted/talented directors/coordinators; BOCES address changes; phone number changes or general reorganization updates.
Please help us to keep this important list as current as possible even if the changes are temporary (such as the case with interim directors).
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For More Information, Contact:
Jenny Ballou, Wendy Ulibarri
Exceptional Student Leadership
Phone: 303-866-6694, 303-866-6799
Email: ballou_j@cde.state.co.us, ulibarri_w@cde.state.co.us
Update
Standards Implementation Update
Attn: Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, Directors of Curriculum, Curriculum Coordinators
This is the third in a new series of bi-weekly standards implementation eUpdates from CDE.
Sign up to receive standards eUpdates at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/standardsupdateregistration. When you sign up for eUpdates, you can also sign up to receive content specific updates for the arts, English language proficiency (WIDA), expanded evidence outcomes (special populations), health, literacy, math, physical education, science, social studies and world languages.
In partnership with educational leaders from across the state, CDE recently posted standards crosswalk documents. These documents are designed as working tools to compare the previous Model Content Standards to the revised Colorado Academic Standards. The crosswalks can be found at: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/UAS/StandardsImplementation.html. Recorded webinar introductions to these documents will be available by the end of April at: http://www.cde.state.co.us/otl/ContentSpecialist.htm.
The Office of Teaching and Learning recently met with educator volunteers from the across Colorado to begin discussions on the design of an Elementary Content Connections resource. The purpose of this resource is to identify the powerful connecting ideas across the content areas. Updates on the progress of this work will be included in future eUpdates.
Plans are being finalized for a regional tour to support leaders in planning for standards implementation. The tour is planned for mid-May through mid-June. Dates and locations will be available soon at http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/UAS/StandardsImplementation.html.
CDE is looking for venues to disseminate information about the revised Colorado Academic Standards with a focus on district and school leaders. Do you know of a regional meeting or conference where a presentation on the revised standards would be appropriate? Send your suggestions along with relevant details to Melissa Colsman at colsman_m@cde.state.co.us.
For More Information, Contact:
Melissa Colsman
Office of Teaching and Learning
Phone: (303) 866-6737
Email: colsman_m@cde.state.co.us
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