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Registration for the Oklahoma Math Tutoring Corps is now open for Oklahoma students in grades 7, 8 or 9.
This high-dosage tutoring program provides 50-minute virtual tutoring sessions three times a week in groups of no more than four students. Schools can share this flyer at enrollment, open house or on their school website to encourage families to register their students.
Students must be registered by 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9.
Tutor applications are still available for educators with an active Oklahoma teaching certificate, higher education professors and representatives, retired educators and college students. Those interested in being a tutor can find the application on the Oklahoma Math Tutoring Corps webpage. The deadline for tutor applications is 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5.
If you would personally like to recommend students for tutoring, complete this form.
If you have questions, contact Anthony Purcell at anthony.purcell@sde.ok.gov or (405) 522-6575.
 View the OSDE Reporting Requirements Calendar for upcoming deadlines and reporting details.
The Annual District Reading Plan for the Reading Sufficiency Act (RSA) is now available on Single Sign-On. Each site that works with kindergarten through third grade must complete the Annual District Reading Plan.
According to the administrative rules for RSA, sites must complete and certify their plan by August 30 in order to be eligible to receive RSA funds for this year's allocation.
View a tutorial for completing the RSA Annual Reading Plan.
If you have questions, contact Melissa Ahlgrim at melissa.ahlgrim@sde.ok.gov.
Registration for Cohort 3 of the Oklahoma Science of Reading Academies is open to educators interested in learning how to effectively teach students to read.
The Science of Reading Academies will provide sustained and job-embedded professional learning to elementary educators through the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, or LETRS, learning modules. Participants will engage in both asynchronous learning through eight online modules and eight facilitated learning sessions throughout the two-year course.
LETRS is not a curriculum for students, but professional development for teachers designed to help them become better consumers of curriculum resources already available to them. All costs for the Science of Reading Academies are covered by OSDE. Districts may choose to use RSA funds to provide stipends to participating educators.
Cohort 3 of the Science of Reading Academies will occur between August 2022 and May 2024.
For more information about the Science of Reading Academies and to register, see links below:
If you have questions or would like more information, contact Megan Ashbaugh at megan.ashbaugh@sde.ok.gov.
To access the application for requesting adjunct teachers, please follow these steps:
- In Single Sign-On, access the OECS portal.
- Select "Administrator or HR role," then click "Manage District Requests."
- Locate the adjunct application link at the bottom of the page.
Please remember that all districts must submit a local board agenda indicating board approval with the adjunct teacher's name and the subject/content they will be teaching (typically documented in board minutes).
The certification fee is $25 for one subject/content area of adjunct and $50 for more than one.
Note: Approval is good for one school year only.
If you have questions, contact Janet Vinson at janet.vinson@sde.ok.gov or Jeff Smith at jeff.smith@sde.ok.gov.
The Holocaust education law (70 O.S. § 11-103.6o) states that beginning in the 2022-23 school year, Holocaust education shall be taught to students in grades 6-12 as prescribed in the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies and be taught in a manner that generates an understanding of the causes, course and effects of the Holocaust. If schools are providing instruction aligned to the 6-12 social studies standards, they will meet the requirements of the law.
To support school districts in meeting the new Holocaust Education requirements, resources related to the causes, series of events and effects of the Holocaust can be found here and sources related to the Nuremberg Trials can be found here. Additional resources supporting the implementation of the Oklahoma Academic Standards for grades 6-12 can be found in the Oklahoma Curriculum Frameworks. OSDE will be working with Holocaust experts around the state during the school year to identify additional resources and develop quality professional development for teachers.
As districts continue the process of staffing for the 2022-23 school year, we wanted to share a reminder about state law regarding teacher contracts.
If a teacher under contract requests to leave the district from which he/she is employed any time after 15 days following the first Monday in June (June 21), the district is under no obligation to release the teacher from the contract unless it chooses to do so. Typically, a district may release a teacher when and if a suitable replacement is found. During a teacher shortage and the current labor market, that may be especially difficult.
If a teacher in your district accepts a contract with another public school district without a release from your district's contract, your district's primary legal recourse is to ask your board of education to decline to accept an employee's resignation request (if received) and to request OSDE suspend the teacher's teaching certificate for the duration of the original contract as authorized in statute. This would require a public hearing.
The Oklahoma State School Boards Association has provided guidance and information regarding this issue for administrators and school board members.
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