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Please pass this information along to preschool teachers and administrators.
Panorama will host a webinar dedicated to navigating the preschool data contained within Student Success on Wednesday, November 9. Attendees will learn how to find and drill down into data for preschool children. The webinar is scheduled to begin at 2:00pm and will last an hour. Information on registering for the webinar:
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Nov 9, 2022 02:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Topic: myIGDIs and Panorama Student Success
Register in advance for this webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Immediately following, at 3:00pm, Renaissance will host a professional learning session to answer the question "myIGDIs Fall Data...Now What?" Teams and teachers administering myIGDIs are encouraged to attend. The webinar is scheduled to last 90 minutes. Click here for the link to register or to join on November 9.
Contact Mary Breyfogle or 515-326-1030 with questions.
The Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the lead agency for the school vulnerability assessments announced that in response to a request by Governor Reynolds, they are working with their vendor, TetraTech, to have all assessments completed by the end of this current calendar year (December 31, 2022).
Accordingly, Tetra Tech will begin the process of rescheduling those schools that were originally scheduled to be assessed next year.
HSEMD recognizes that this may create an inconvenience for those schools that were scheduled for next calendar year. However, by shortening the timeline for assessments, schools will have more time to apply for and utilize the funding through the School Safety Improvement Fund grants and address the issues identified in the vulnerability assessment.
For those schools that this update may cause a change in the method for conducting the Vulnerability Assessment, please go into the original survey in CASA and change the response accordingly.
As always, if you have any questions on the assessment process or the grant program, please reach out to the School Safety team at schoolsafetygrant@iowa.gov.
![CTE](https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/fancy_images/IACIO/2022/10/6617881/cte-graphic_original.png) The annual upload for the Secondary Career and Technical Reporting Application (SCTERA) courses in a program begins January 2, 2023 and is to be completed by January 31, 2023 (SCTERA work must be completed before a district can certify their SRI file). A state initiative in Iowa’s Perkins V state plan is the reporting of student participation in work-based learning courses. Please refer to the following resources for how to report your work-based learning courses:
Reporting District Work-Based Learning
The first step is uploading a complete and finished 2022-2023 Student Reporting in Iowa (SRI) file, then following the SCTERA Reporting guidance handbook found here.
Note: SRI cannot be certified until SCTERA is completed. The Bureau of Career and Technical Education will be holding two virtual ZOOM training webinars to walk through the steps on how to complete the report. These training webinars will be held Wednesday, December 14, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. and Wednesday, January 4, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Click here to register for this webinar.
Drop-in office hours are scheduled for assistance and Q & A. Please contact Matt Eddy or 515-720-8863 with any questions. January 5, 7:30 a.m. – 8:20 a.m. January 12, 3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. January 19, 7:30 a.m. – 8:20 a.m. January 26, 3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. For questions, contact Dr. Jeffrey Fletcher or 515-321-7309
The Universal Desk Audit for K-12 public districts and K-12 non public schools is due on December 15th. For more information please click here.
Questions can be directed to your School Improvement Consultant.
There are two obligations required when providing notice of nondiscrimination: annual and continuous.
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Annual Notice: Section IV-O of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination in Vocational Education Programs of 1979 requires an annual notice prior to the beginning of each school year.
Sample Annual Notice:
The notice shall include: The [Name of district] offers career and technical programs in the following service areas:
[List CTE Service Areas]
It is the policy of the [Name of district] Community School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age (for employment), marital status (for programs), sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact the district’s Equity Coordinator, Name, Title, Address, Phone Number, E-mail Address, (The notice may include): Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn Street, 37th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604-7204, telephone number: 312-730-1560, FAX number: 312-730-1576, TDD number: 800-877-8339, email: OCR.Chicago@ed.gov
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Continuous Notice: The Title IX, Section 504, and Title II regulations require that notices of nondiscrimination be made on a continuing basis.
Sample Continuous Notice:
The notice shall include: It is the policy of the [Name of District] Community School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age (for employment), marital status (for programs), sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact the district’s Equity Coordinator, Name, Title, Address, Phone Number, E-mail Address
(The notice may include): Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn Street, 37th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604-7204, telephone number: 312-730-1560, FAX number: 312-730-1576, TDD number: 800-877-8339, email: OCR.Chicago@ed.gov
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Differentiated Accountability (IDEA-DA) is Iowa’s special education accountability model with a primary focus on improving educational results and functional outcomes for all learners with disabilities. The IDEA-DA model is built to ensure compliance with federal and state law with particular emphasis on those requirements most closely related to improving educational results for learners with disabilities. Iowa’s IDEA-DA system reflects our state’s commitment to providing leadership, oversight and technical support to ensure all learners have equitable access to educational opportunities. Our system frames improvement and compliance conversations with LEAs with the goal of ensuring the promises of IDEA.
IDEA-DA levels of support will be released through CASA on November 15, 2022. A recorded overview of IDEA-DA can be found here.
For additional information on IDEA-DA, the Iowa Department of Education is hosting a statewide webinar on November 18, 2022 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM CT. The link to the live zoom session can be found here.
The new 2022 school performance designations and ratings were made available in the Iowa School Performance Profiles, the online school accountability reporting system developed to meet the requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). After two years of frozen designations due to the pandemic, new schools were identified this year that are in need of comprehensive and targeted assistance. This year, 33 schools representing five percent of all Title 1 public schools, as well as schools with graduation rates lower than 66 percent, have been identified as needing comprehensive assistance and support based on the performance of their students. Title 1 schools typically serve high numbers or percentages of children from low-income families. Another 227 schools were identified in need of targeted assistance and support based on the performance of a subgroup of their students. More information is available in the press release issued last week.
It is the policy of the Iowa Department of Education not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, age, political party affiliation, or actual or potential parental, family or marital status in its programs, activities, or employment practices as required by the Iowa Code sections 216.9 and 256.10(2), Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d2000e), the Equal Pay Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 206, et seq.), Title IX (Educational Amendments, 20 U.S.C.§§ 1681 – 1688), Section 504 (Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.). If you have questions or complaints related to compliance with this policy by the Iowa Department of Education, please contact the legal counsel for the Iowa Department of Education, Grimes State Office Building, 400 E. 14th Street, Des Moines, IA 50319-0146, telephone number: 515-281-5295, or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn Street, 37th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604-7204, telephone number: 312-730-1560, FAX number: 312-730-1576, TDD number: 800-877-8339, email: OCR.Chicago@ed.gov
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