In Today's Newsletter
1. NAEP Video Project
2. Rural Career Coaching Course
3. U.S. Senate Youth Program
4. The Professional Teaching Practices Commission Meeting
5. Alaska's Early Education Program Standards
6. Join Our Team!
7. National School Lunch Week
8. Coding in Minecraft
9. thread Resources
10. State Mapping Challenge
11. TRR Playbook
12. Alaska Digital Citizenship Week
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Are you interested in filming? How about acting? Are you interested in sharing the unique aspects of your school and community?
DEED is looking for students, teachers, and parents to get involved in the 2024 NAEP Video Project. The video will be an informational piece about the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). It will highlight Alaskan perspectives by involving Alaskan students and filming in one-of-a-kind Alaskan locations.
The video will help students, teachers, and parents understand the importance of NAEP as it pertains to student selection, effort, and how results are used to benefit our students.
Check out the directions in the flyer above, or email Raina.Moulian@Alaska.Gov for more information. Important links can be found below:
Appearance Release Form (child)
Appearance Release Form (adult)
Example Video from Alabama
The Script
Mobile Device Filming Guidelines
Submit to Dropbox
(password: naep2024)
And don't forget to submit your Appearance Release Forms, too!
The Rural Career Coaching course has been moved to AKEE!
Asynchronous: Open NOW
For UAA Credit: September 15, 2023 - January 15, 2024.
This is a compact 6-module course for beginning Career Coaches designed for districts who do not have dedicated counseling staff and want to train someone to provide career coaching for students.
Module 1: Rural Career Coaching 101 (Job description, Alaska Native worldview)
Module 2: Career Coaching Resources (CTE Clusters/Pathways, Handbook of resources)
Module 3: Using AKCIS with Students (In Depth AKCIS)
Module 4: Communicating with Students (postsecondary, soft skills, barrier crimes)
Module 5: Communicating Beyond Students (confidentiality, family/community awareness)
Module 6: Commencing a Career Coaching Program (Scheduling, promoting CTE, Planning Career Events, FAFSA)
Rural Career Coaching may be taken asynchronously or for (1) 500-level UAA credit ($79)
Students wishing to take this course for credit must register by October 27, 2023!
- Email sheila.box@alaska.gov and inform her of participation in the course.
- Add their name to the UAA Intent to Register form
- Sign up for AKEEand create an AKEE profile
- Follow the instructions in the link to UAA Online Registration Instructions
- Access the "Rural Career Counseling" button and begin working through the modules.
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The Department of Education & Early Development is soliciting applications for the U.S. Senate Youth Program—a national program sponsored by the Federal Senate and underwritten by the Hearst Foundation. It is open to juniors and seniors who hold elected positions in student government during the 2023-2024 academic year. Students must be enrolled in a public or private school. State delegates will have outstanding leadership qualities and a strong commitment to public service. They generally rank in the one percent of their states academically.
Each delegate receives a $10,000 undergraduate scholarship and will participate in the USSYP Washington Week in Washington, D.C., March 2-9, 2024, where two Alaska students will join 102 other delegates for an intensive educational program about the workings of the Senate and the federal government overall.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. on 25 October 2023. The application packet can be found by clicking the button below or by clicking here.
Only one scholar per school may be nominated. Incomplete applications will not be considered. For more information on the USSYP, please see https://education.alaska.gov/recognitionprograms. The Alaska contact is Dr. Bjorn Wolter at 907-465-6542 and bjorn.wolter@alaska.gov
The Commission plans to consider disciplinary actions against certificate holders, to conduct administrative reviews, and to discuss other Commission business at the upcoming October meeting.
The meeting will be available to the public via Zoom or in-person. Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aid, service, or assistance may contact the PTPC office prior to the meeting. For more information, call PTPC (907) 269-6579.
October 5th and 6th
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
550 W. 7th Ave, Suite 1236
Intended Audience
- Administrators from all districts with an Early Education Program.
Purpose:
- Dive into Alaska’s Early Education Program Standards.
- Plan for documentation of high-quality early education programming.
- Familiarize the requirements of the 2024-2025 District-Wide Early Education Program Approval (.5 ADM Funding) application.
Schedule:
- Registration is required for all live webinars. Follow the links to register.
All webinars will be recorded and posted on The Alaska Reads Act Early Education Programs page following the live presentations.
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Date & Time
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Session 1
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Thursday, October 26, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
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Standard V: Assessment
Standard IX: Continuous Quality Improvement
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Session 2
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Thursday, November 9, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
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Standard III: Curriculum
Standard VII: Dual Language Learners
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Session 3
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Thursday, December 14, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
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Standard II: Social and Emotional Support
Standard VIII: Coaching
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Session 4
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Thursday, January 11, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
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Standard IV: Screening and Developmental Evaluation
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Session 5
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Thursday, February 8, 10:000-11:30 a.m.
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Standard I: Teaching and the Learning Environment
Standard VI: Family Engagement
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DEED is committed to providing information, resources, and leadership to schools, districts, parents, and the public in order to support an excellent education for every student every day. Staff at DEED are engaged in meaningful professional work in support of Alaska’s most valuable resource – its children. Current open positions are:
- Building Management Specialist
- IT Specialist
- Procurement Specialist 3
National School Lunch Week is October 9–13, 2023. Level up your celebrations with these ideas from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service:
Department of Education and Early Development is excited to announce that the availability of 'Coding in Minecraft' at NO COST to all public schools in Alaska has been extended through the 2023 - 2024 school year!
Coding in Minecraft uses Minecraft: Education Edition to teach block-based coding at levels suitable for students in upper elementary, middle, and high school. The program is designed so that teachers with little or no experience coding can incorporate it in their classrooms.
Many professional learning workshops for Coding in Minecraft are available at no cost to Alaska teachers year-round. The workshops take place over three two-hour sessions, going over the basics of Minecraft, exploring Coding in Minecraft from the perspective of the students, diving into the Coding in Minecraft portal in detail, and presenting best practices on using the immersive program with the students. Teachers can also earn CEU credit by participating in the workshops and post-workshop activities.
Teachers who want to use the program in their classroom can sign up for workshops at https://codingcredentials.com/ak/.
For more information, please contact Faye Tanner (faye.tanner@alaska.gov)
Until October 18, 2023, the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development (DCCED), Alaska Broadband Office (ABO), will be seeking comments on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, Initial Proposal Volume 1, State Challenge methodology.
This proposed methodology is to share how to run the State’s mapping challenge process. The ABO has adopted the guidance from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) guidance with only one small exception (see the attached PDF).
The ABO encourages interested parties to review the attached PDF, and if there is a recommended change to the process, parties are invited to send an email to ced.abo.general@alaska.gov.
DEED has published the Teacher Retention and Recruitment (TRR) Playbook. The Playbook identifies and provides implementation strategies for practical, professional, and policy recommendations to address Alaska's persistent issues with retention and recruitment.
"Retention and recruitment of Alaska’s workforce is an important and complex issue. The work of the TRR Playbook is a solution-focused resource for the education sector and its stakeholders. The expertise and perspectives included in the Playbook are reflected in its extensive recommendations," said DEED Commissioner Dr. Deena Bishop.
The TRR Playbook can be found online here.
DEED looks forward to seeing these ideas be implemented across stakeholder groups, and will continue to provide guidance with the end goal of recruiting and retaining excellent educators.
In partnership with Common Sense Education, BrainPOP, GoogleEdu, and ISTE, DEED has dedicated a week as an ongoing effort to teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world.
DEED has compiled resources to empower students, parents, and educators to be informed and responsible online, and reflect on how our digital lives impact our social and emotional well-being. Some of the resource toolkits include:
- Alaska Digital Citizenship Week Classroom Plans for all grades, K-12
- Multiple curricula options
- Family Engagement Plans
Check it out here: Alaska Digital Citizenship Week - Education and Early Development
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