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Reporting Items
EPS High-Cost Out-of-District Report (EF-S-214) Open for Reporting on March 1, 2020
The EF-S-214, also known as the EPS High-Cost Out-of-District Report, will be open for reporting by Maine public schools on March 1 in the Department’s NEO Portal. This report is Due April 15, 2020.
We strongly encourage users to sign into the report as early as possible to allow time for data entry and completion of the two-step submission process. To provide state subsidy support in the current fiscal year using information provided on the report, Department staff needs time to review and approve the information by April 15. | More
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News & Updates
Maine Launches Innovative Bicentennial Curriculum Initiative; An Opportunity 200 Years in the Making
The Maine Department of Education (DOE), in collaboration with the Maine Bicentennial Commission (maine200.org) and the Maine Historical Society has launched an online resource designed to help Maine teachers integrate Maine’s Bicentennial into their classrooms. The Bicentennial Curriculum Initiative enables educators to share their own lesson plans, download lesson plans created by other Maine teachers, an | More
State Collaboration Helps Improve Early Childhood Programs in Maine
Through an ongoing partnership between the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS), a subset of DHHS has been working to proactively plan for an anticipated $550 million increase in federal funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program. | More
Increase Efficiencies and Savings- Efficiency Maine Offering Financial Incentives to Maine Schools
Many Maine schools have partially upgraded to LED lighting, but many older, less efficient lighting fixtures remain. Efficiency Maine is hoping to retire those old fixtures once and for all through this program, available only to public schools (K-12) in Maine. By upgrading to LEDs you’ll enjoy years of better lighting quality, reduced maintenance costs, energy savings, and more. | More
Calling All Teachers of Social Studies Content PK-12!
With the emphasis on teaching about Maine Native Americans as part of the revised Maine Learning Results for Social Studies, Joe Schmidt, Social Studies Specialist at Maine Department of Education, continues to gather data from educators in the field in order to best support their efforts. | More
Get to know the DOE Team: Meet Gayle Erdheim
Maine DOE Team member Gayle Erdheim is being highlighted this week as part of the get to know the DOE Team campaign! | More
Maine Schools Sharing Success Stories
- WCC Washington County Educator Profile: Mary Bryant
- Dayton Consolidated School Participates in School Global Play Day
- Staff at the Burchard A. Dunn School in MSAD 15 Team Up to Improve Student Inclusion in Pre-K
- Williams Elementary School Uses Let’s Go! Mini Grant to Create Sensory Path
- James H. Bean School Gets Creative with “The Final Countdown Food Drive”
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Professional Development & Training Opportunities
MASL Webinars Begin for Maine’s School Librarians
The Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL) is pleased to announce it will be providing a webinar series for school librarians over the coming months. Jon Graham, Maine DOE’s Elementary Digital Learning Specialist, will be assisting with the development of the series. The webinars will include topics like Overdrive e-books and audiobooks, classroom management in the school library, and their first topic, Makerspaces in the Elementary School Library. This webinar will be available live on Monday March 2 from 7pm to 8pm. | More
FREE Trauma Informed Readiness and Response Workshop – 2nd Location Added
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE), in partnership with event sponsor University of New England (UNE), is holding a repeat event due to the great response and success of our January Trauma Informed Readiness and Response Workshop. | More
NAMI-Maine offers Youth Mental Health First Aid Training to Schools at No Cost!
The Office of School and Student Supports in the Department of Education recognizes that our schools and their staff are working hard every day to respond to the varying academic, social, physical, and emotional needs of their students. The Opioid Prevention Task Force, created by Governor Mills’ Executive Order No. 2,identified the need to broadcast and advertise resources available through the Maine Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to schools as one way to support school personnel in their work to respond to the social and emotional needs of students. | More
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Latest DOE Career/Project Opportunities
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