Middle school girls are invited to connect with women in underrepresented career fields including science, technology, engineering and mathematics by participating in the Expanding Your Horizons conference.
Continue reading “Students invited to meet career women in STEM fields”
The Portland Children’s Film Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, which will take place in conjunction with the festival on April 4-7, 2013. Continue reading “Portland Children’s Film Festival seeks films by young people”
ADMINISTRATIVE LETTER NO: 5
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As educators it often feels like we’re in the business of addressing problems, so it’s important that we also celebrate the solutions – as we try to do in our weekly Updates. This week we can point to three schools that are doing it well: Maine DOE has nominated Longfellow Elementary School in Portland, Williams-Cone Elementary School in Topsham and Yarmouth Elementary School to be 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools.
The annual Educator Quality And Effectiveness Survey for FY 2012 (school year 2011-12) was originally due on Friday, June 16, 2012. Continue reading “URGENT: Report educator data to avoid federal non-compliance”
AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Education nominated three schools – Longfellow Elementary School in Portland, Williams-Cone Elementary School in Topsham and Yarmouth Elementary School – to be 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools.
Continue reading “Three Maine schools nominated for national distinction”
Achieve will host an informational American Diploma Project Network webinar on the release of its new report, “Understanding the Skills in the Common Core State Standards,” on Dec. 19 from 3 to 4 p.m. Continue reading “Join webinar on new Common Core skills report”
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium recently released drafts of initial achievement level descriptors (ALDs) for feedback and review through Jan. 15, 2013.
Continue reading “Smarter Balanced drafts of initial achievement level descriptors available”
The NAEP technology and engineering literacy (TEL) assessment is currently under development. Continue reading “Prepare for NAEP’s 2014 technology and engineering literacy assessment”
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation is now accepting nominations for four Agriscience Awards and four Life Science Awards to be awarded in July 2013 in Washington, D.C. Continue reading “Call for nominations for two science competitions”
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