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ACTION ITEMS |
Superintendents and charter school directors are invited to participate in this monthly audio conference call hosted by Commissioner Brenda Cassellius. The last call for the school year is scheduled for Wednesday, May 17, 9:30-10:30 a.m. A notice providing dial-in instructions will be sent prior to the call. Comments to offer and/or questions you would like to ask are encouraged.
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TRAININGS |
The Minnesota eLearning Summit is the premiere event of the Minnesota Learning Commons and a gathering place for K-12, college, and university educators and innovators in the Midwest who are committed to effective online and blended learning. The summit will be held at Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota, and will include:
- Concurrent sessions focused on eLearning tools, resources, services, and best practices.
- Opportunities to meet, collaborate, and contribute ideas for the effective use of instructional technology in and out of the classroom.
- A shared vision for utilizing resource-rich tools that reach 21st-century learners.
More details including registration information are available on the Minnesota eLearning Summit website.
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The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) invites you to participate in the following WebEx session regarding end of year reminders for State Fiscal Year 2017 and new requirements for State Fiscal Year 2018. Please share with anyone who enters special education data on EDRS, SERVS or UFARS.
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Time: 1-2:30 p.m., Central Daylight Time
Event Number: 597 960 948
Event Password: GrabBag
Agenda: End-of-year special education financial updates including EDRS, SERVS, UFARS, tuition billing, special pupils and state special education aid calculations.
To register for this WebEx, please visit the MDE Calendar. This session does require a registration password. Following your registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the event. If you do not receive a registration confirmation email within two hours of registration, please email Michelle Carey or 651-582-8848.
Presentation materials and the WebEx link to join the presentation will be emailed to registered participants on Tuesday, June 13.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST |
The Minnesota Youth Council (MYC) is looking for young people in grades 8 - 12 who are passionate about issues facing youth in Minnesota today. The MYC is now accepting applications for 2017-18 in all eight congressional districts!
The priority deadline for applications is Monday, May 22, 2017. We strongly encourage students who will be in the grades 8, 9 and 10 in 2017-18 to apply! Applications will be accepted until all seats are filled.
APPLY TODAY!
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MCIS for Special Needs (SPED) and MCIS for Adult Basic Education (ABE) has developed several new tools tailored to better meet the needs of students. MCIS for SPED is a more accessible format for students with disabilities. MCIS for ABE is tailored with straight forward language, less density and clear choices for clients to make better career decisions.
Parchment (Transcript) Send provides students and families the option to send academic transcripts anywhere. MCIS is also partnering with parchment to provide electronic academic transcript transmission services through a link within MCIS. Schools with a parchment send account allows students/families to send and track official academic transcripts to any college or third party destination, worldwide, including scholarship funds, the Common App, NCAA scholarship eligibility and to business or industry entities. There is no cost for a school to set up a parchment send account but does include a fee to the student/families for each transcript sent. Schools do have the option to supplement a parchment license instead of an individual student/family charge for transcripts.
Personalized Learning Plans (PLP) on the Go is a mobile friendly tool to enhance student PLP’s to record postsecondary and career plans and accomplishments on the spot, such as experiential learning activities. PLP on the Go allows students to access their PLP on mobile devices, share it with their parents and to help schools meet the PLP requirements for all students per Minnesota Statutes, section 120B.125, Planning for Students’ Successful Transition to Postsecondary Education and Employment; PERSONAL LEARNING PLANS.
To learn more about these items, please contact Dorothy Wolf, MCIS specialist at 651-582-8475 or Beth Haukebo, MCIS specialist at 651-582-8318 or visit the MCIS webpage.
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