NAEP Results Released
Yesterday the National Center for Education Statistics released results for the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), showing the first comparative nationwide assessment of math and reading since before the pandemic in 2019.
In both fourth and eighth grade reading, Alaska saw no significant change in scores compared to 2019. Alaska’s mathematics results more closely reflect nationwide trends with both grades declining.
Results for The Nation’s Report Card: 2022 Mathematics and Reading are available in an interactive online format at www.nationsreportcard.gov.
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Statewide Literacy Screener Informational Sessions
The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development has selected mCLASS from Amplify as the statewide literacy screener, fulfilling one requirement of the Alaska Reads Act. The screener will help with the early identification of students with reading deficiencies in order to provide specific support so that all students will be able to read at grade level by the end of third grade.
DEED is hosting two webinars to provide information on the mCLASS from Amplify statewide literacy screener.
Attendees will learn how the screener helps identify reading deficiencies, how it can aid in improving student reading, and how it meets Alaska Reads Act requirements.
This event is open to all teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders.
For more information, please contact tracy.parker@alaska.gov
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 3PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 10AM
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86410361867
Webinar ID: 864 1036 1867
DEED Welcomes Dr. Amy Phillips-Chan as Director of Libraries, Archives and Museums
DEED is excited to welcome Dr. Amy Phllips-Chan as the next Director for the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums.
Dr. Phillips-Chan currently serves as the director of the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome (Sitŋasuaq), where she has been for the past seven years. In addition to her experience leading the museum and serving on the board of Museums Alaska, she has been served in a fellowship with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has experience as a teacher in a rural district in Alaska.
“It has been a pleasure to work with LAM staff through projects in Nome and board service with Alaskan associations. I look forward to now assisting the teams in Juneau/Dzánti K’ihéeni and Sitka/Sheet'ká on innovative educational programs that promote equitable access to our state’s invaluable historical and cultural resources and meaningful engagement with Alaska’s diverse populations," Dr. Phillips-Chan said. "I admire the vital support the Department of Education and Early Development has been providing to schools and educators during this period of unprecedented change and am enthusiastic about working in partnership with DEED to foster life-long learning and educational excellence for all Alaskans.”
The mission of the Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums is to promote lifelong learning for all Alaskans through Alaska’s diverse history, art, and culture.
Congress passed an act establishing the Alaska Historical Library and Museum for the District of Alaska on June 6, 1900. The purpose of the Museum and Historical Library was to collect, preserve and provide access to objects, laws, and papers from the Territory. The Legislature established the Alaska State Library in 1955 to provide reference library service to Territorial and other public officials and to cooperate with other libraries to increase effectiveness and reduce duplication. The Legislature established the Alaska State Archives in 1970, which opened its doors to the public in 1972. The Sheldon Jackson Museum, founded in 1888 to house an exceptional collection of Alaska Native ethnographic material gathered by Presbyterian missionary Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, was purchased by the State of Alaska in 1985.
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