Alaska's Reading Playbook Webinar Series
DEED and the Region 16 Comprehensive Center are excited to offer a new webinar series for Alaska's Reading Playbook.
Alaska’s Reading Playbook is a guide for educators teaching in Alaska’s unique educational landscape. The playbook combines decades of nationwide research with examples and resources developed by educators in our state.
The fall webinar series includes two tracks: an in-depth training for teachers, and a training course for school and district leaders.
The teacher series includes six session on Tuesdays and Thursdays in September from 4pm-5:30. The series for school and district leaders is three Wednesdays from 10am-11am.
Registration is now open.
RFA: Evidence-Based Summer Learning and Enrichment Programs
Through strategic planning that happened prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, DEED identified five positive trajectories, or goals, which were articulated as Alaska’s Education Challenge. To the greatest extent possible, DEED intends to use these five areas to focus all state-level American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act funded initiatives with hopes of simultaneously addressing COVID-19 related needs, addressing pre-existing areas of challenge, and sustaining the gains beyond the availability of these one-time funds.
This request for applications will ask potential subgrantees to provide evidence-based programming that intentionally supports at least one of the four selected areas of Alaska’s Education Challenge:
• Support all students to read at grade level by the end of third grade; • Increase career, technical, and culturally relevant education to meet student and workforce needs; • Close the achievement gap by ensuring equitable educational rigor and resources; or, • Improve the safety and well-being of students through school partnerships with families, communities, and tribes.
The purpose of this competitive grant is to provide school districts and community-based organizations the opportunity to establish innovative strategies to carry out activities that will address unfinished learning and provide enrichment activities through summer programs.
Applications are due October 7, 2022.
Click here to view the full RFA.
Attention Alaska Educators! We have a series of Canvas Back to School Workshops to help get your Canvas course ready for the new school year. Sign up today!
New Times for DEED Reading Professional Development this Fall
In response to feedback from educators, DEED has updated the times for the following professional development courses in September and October. All courses will be held from 4pm - 5pm.
The Heggerty program is a Phonemic Awareness program created by Dr. Michael Heggerty. Participants explore the phonemic awareness skills and hand motions used in the program, along with the Assessment, Progress Monitoring, and the Bridge the Gap components.
UFLI Foundations, from the University of Florida Literacy Institute, is an explicit and systematic program that introduces students to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading.. The course includes an overview of research on reader development and principles of effective reading instruction and intervention. This course provides opportunities for participants to take a closer look at the key foundational reading skills UFLI Foundations addresses: phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, decoding, encoding, and oral reading fluency.
The Teaching Reading Sourcebook is a practical, hands-on teacher’s guide for elementary teachers, middle- and high-school teachers. This course consists of six sessions explicitly covering the scientific basis and instructional elements of the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This course connects the research (why?) to reading content (what?) to instructional routines in the classroom (how?).
Phonics for Reading is a reading intervention program by Anita Archer that provides systematic and explicit phonics instruction to students who struggle with decoding. This course consists of four sessions identifying the purpose and characteristics of Phonics for Reading. In this course, participants will understand how to get started, identify features of the lessons, and how to implement the program to improve student reading proficiency.
Effective reading intervention is informed by assessment. This three-series course will provide educators with a series of formal and informal reading assessments for use with students. This course includes an overview of the connection from assessment identification to targeting of instructional needs, and planning appropriate intervention instruction.
![Assessment literacy](https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/fancy_images/AKDEED/2022/08/6364682/learning-opps-banner_original.jpg) Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Opportunities on AKLearns
The 2022–2023 NWEA® Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Catalog for Alaska provides an overview of professional learning opportunities offered statewide for teachers, teacher leaders, coaches, and administrators. These assessment literacy learning opportunities include virtual workshops, virtual seminars, and on-demand eLearning. Now on AKLearns.org, you can find dates, times and details on the intended audience for each session. Click here to view opportunities.
Alaska Science Assessment Item Review
The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) is recruiting educators to participate in an Item Review to establish test items for the spring 2023 Alaska Science Assessment.
This is an opportunity for educators to become involved in the assessment item development process. Educators will review potential test items and provide feedback. This feedback will inform and enrich the process of developing items for Alaska’s assessments. Participants must have experience teaching science in grades 5, 8, or 10, be knowledgeable in the K-12 Science Standards for Alaska, and work well as part of a team.
The review will be held in Anchorage on October 3-4. Participants’ travel to and from Anchorage will be covered as well as lodging, daily per diem, and a daily stipend, if eligible. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will also be awarded. Educators should apply by completing the Interested Applicant Survey by September 16.
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Are you a science educator looking to enhance your knowledge and skills?
Do you want to better understand the connections between instruction and assessment, and the important role of the K-12 Science Standards for Alaska?
The Alaska Science Assessment is administered statewide to students in grades 5, 8, and 10. Data Recognition Corporation (DRC), Alaska’s test vendor, is facilitating free professional development that will provide information to Alaska educators to make connections between instruction, assessment, and the K-12 Science Standards for Alaska.
- Anchorage – Wednesday, October 5
- Fairbanks – Friday, October 7
- Virtual – Thursday, October 13
Alaska educators can get involved, apply their knowledge of science, and learn more about the statewide assessment development process in these professional development sessions.
Educators can reserve a spot in any of the sessions by completing this registration form by September 16.
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