From the Maine DOE
With schools now settled into the new academic year, Maine DOE resumed our School Improvement Webinar Series this week. Perhaps not surprisingly for a session on increasing attendance, we had our best turnout yet, with more than 60 educators from the across the state participating.
Daily attendance is a key factor for determining school success. Emerging research shows that chronic absence can start as early as preschool and affect performance in later grades. When students aren’t in class, they have to work twice as hard to catch up with the material that they missed, and teachers lose valuable class time helping them do so.
Notices and Reporting
- Educator Quality and Effectiveness Survey past due
- MEDMS staff data collection due Sept. 30
- School Bus Purchase Report (EF-T-20: Quarter 1), due Sept. 30
- EPS Oct. 1 Enrollment Reporting, due Oct. 15
- 2012-13 Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate Validation, due Oct. 31
- Private School Oct. 1 Enrollment Reporting (EF-M-13), due Oct. 31
- Reminder about special education students placed in non-approved programs
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News & Views
Maine replaces GED with new equivalency exam
AUGUSTA – In an effort to better support the college and career readiness of all Mainers, the State has chosen a new high school equivalency assessment provider. | More
Proficiency-based learning resources available
The Maine DOE Center for Best Practice (CBP) has created and posted five flyers designed to help districts move forward the conversation about the shift to a proficiency-based learning system. | More
Call for Senate Youth Program nominees
Maine Senators Susan Collins and Angus King have announced that the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) has begun its statewide selection process. Two Maine students will join 102 other delegates for the program’s 52nd annual Washington Week, held March 8-15. | More
Governor LePage to celebrate students, technology on National Manufacturing Day
Students, educators, families and communities are invited to celebrate National Manufacturing Day in various locations across the state on Oct. 4. | More
Cross Disciplinary Literacy Network registration now open
K-12 educators are invited to register for the 2013-14 Cross Discipline Literacy Network (CDLN), which provides professional learning related to literacy instruction across content areas through both webinar technology and face-to-face networking sessions. | More
Science teachers needed for graph literacy pilot project
The Concord Consortium is recruiting 10 seventh- and eighth-grade science teachers for the Piloting Graph Literacy Activities in Maine project, funded by the National Science Foundation. | More
First-grade classrooms needed for Lexile research study
MetaMetrics is looking for first-grade teachers who are willing to administer a short online study to their students for an ongoing early reader research initiative. | More
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Latest DOE Career/Project Opportunities
- State School Accreditation Development Services
- School Nutrition Specialist
- State Director of No Child Left Behind, Title I
- Migrant Education Program Director
- Common Core K12-Higher Education Alignment Director