In Today's Newsletter
1. Coffee and Content Series
2. District-Wide Early Education Grant Application
3. FY25 Application for District Wide Early Education Program Approval and 0.5 ADM / Foundation Formula Funding
4. Professional Teaching Practices Commission Update
5. The Association of Alaska School Boards Annual Scholarship Award Competition
6. Alaska Teacher & Personnel Job Fair
7. Alaska Performance Scholarship 2024 Outcomes Report
8. Senator Murkowski's Summer High School Internship
9. 988 CREATE!
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DEED is hosting an amazing line up of Science of Reading speakers. Each month, a new reading leader will share a direct to classroom technique or strategy to add to your Science of Reading toolkit (curricular agnostic), followed by some casual educator chat.
Have questions about reading or choosing interventions? Perhaps you are a single teacher in a village school needing a collaboration partner, or maybe a student just has you stuck and you want a brainstorming partner? This will be an open time for conversation, sharing, and problem solving!
This month, Lindsay Kemeny will join us on February 19, 2024 to discuss decodable texts.
Is your district ready to develop or improve a high-quality Early Education program?
The purpose of the FY2024-2027 Alaska Reads Act Early Education Program Grant is to provide funding for a three-year period for the development or improvement of a district-wide early education program (DWEEP).
Release Date:
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
DWEEP Grant Application Form
Technical Assistance Webinars:
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 10:00AM
Meeting Registration - Zoom
Due Date:
Thursday, February 15, 2024
LAST CHANCE TO APPLY!
DEED is inviting applications for FY2025 District Wide Early Education Program Approval. Those districts who receive approval will be eligible to report enrolled early education students in the district’s average daily membership (ADM) that determines Foundation Formula funding. Funding will be granted at a rate of 0.5 ADM for each eligible 4-year-old and 5-year-old student.
Approval will be determined according to compliance with these requirements:
- Operate an early education program for three or more years,
- Consult all high-quality childcare programs within the school district boundaries, including Head Start [Sec 14.03.410(c)],
- Successfully implement the Alaska Early Education Program Standards, and
- Employ early education teacher(s) with the required and current teacher certification.
Application Available:
January 25, 2024
DWEEP-ADM Intent Form - Education and Early Development (alaska.gov)
Technical Assistance Webinars:
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 12:00p.m. - Meeting Registration – Zoom
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 10:00a.m. - Meeting Registration – Zoom
Due Date:
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
For more information, visit education.alaska.gov/earlylearning or contact earlylearning@alaska.gov
Upcoming Meetings
The Commission will meet on April 11-12, 2024 to consider disciplinary actions against certificate holders, to conduct administrative reviews, and to discuss other Commission business.
The public is welcome. The meetings may be in person, but will also be held virtually by Zoom. More information, including a Zoom link, can be found online: PTPC
Learn More!
Have additional questions, concerns, or just want to learn more? Melody Mann, PTPC's Executive Director, is available to present information about PTPC to educators around the state. Send her an email to schedule an informational presentation.
Applications are now open for the Association of Alaska School Board's (AASB) June Nelson Memorial Scholarship!
This scholarship program is open to Alaska students who:
- Are graduating this school year.
- Have been accepted as a full-time student by either a business, trade, or college institution
- Are graduating from an AASB's member school district.
The June Nelson Memorial Scholarship is named in honor of the late June Nelson, a longtime school board member from Kotzebue. June contributed much to the cause of education and will be remembered for her outstanding service on behalf of Alaska’s children. This is the 33rd year of this scholarship, which is made possible and funded by individual contributions of school board members and administrators from across the state.
This 2023-2024 school year, AASB will award up to fifteen $1,500 scholarships to apply toward post-secondary education! Up to two of these may be awarded to returning college sophomores. Up to two scholarships may specifically be given to students planning to attend trade/vocational schools.
Alaska Teachers & Personnel (ATP) will be hosting its annual Spring educator Expo job fair at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage on Friday, March 1, 2024.
Concurrently, ATP has partnered with DEED to offer school districts support and professional development opportunities during the first annual Teacher Retention and Recruitment Convening (TRRC). The event will provide engaging discussions, networking, and practical takeaways.
Register for the ATP Job Fair: ATP Job Fair Registration - Spring, 2024 (alaskateacher.org)
Register for TRRC: Registration for TRRC - 2024 (alaskateacher.org)
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The Alaska Performance Scholarship (APS) 2024 Outcomes Report is now available for review. This report reflects APS eligibility and usage trends from Fall 2011 – Fall 2023. Highlights from this report include:
- Eligibility of 17% remains at the program’s lowest since inception
- APS recipients are two times more likely to graduate with a bachelor’s degree
- 95% of APS recipients remain Alaska residents two years after graduation
“The Alaska Performance Scholarship offers Alaska’s students an opportunity to be proactive and intentional around postsecondary education planning while still in high school. Our APS students demonstrate high achievement, persistence, and completion resulting in a stronger, more prepared workforce. ACPE continues to be responsive and supportive of APS modernization efforts to increase access and awareness for more Alaskans,” said Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education (ACPE) Executive Director, Sana Efird.
To learn more about recommendations to modernize and streamline the Alaska Performance Scholarship, read the Alaska Performance Scholarship Program Review & Recommendations Report: APS_OutcomesReport_2024.pdf (alaska.gov)
Senator Murkowski provides an opportunity each year for graduating high school seniors to be summer interns in her office. The interns have the opportunity to learn about the U.S. Senate, work in a professional office, shadow the Senator, attend meetings and committee hearings, perform special projects, have fun, and explore Washington, D.C. Eight students will be chosen for each of the two summer sessions. More information can be found at https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/assistance/students/internships.
Qualifications: Senator Murkowski is looking for independent, inquisitive, and mature young Alaskans. There is no GPA threshold requirement to apply. Applicants need not be interested in political science.
Application: Available online at https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024_high_school_intern_application.pdf.
Deadline to Apply: 11:59 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on March 18, 2024. It is preferred that applications be e-mailed to Angelina_Burney@murkowski.senate.gov but may also be mailed via U.S. Mail, FedEx, or UPS. However, the Senate’s mail screening procedures are likely to delay delivery, and no applications that arrive after the deadline will be considered.
Internship Session Dates:
- Session One: June 2-29, 2024
- Session Two: July 27 – August 3, 2024
- Please note which session is preferred on the application.
Housing, Transportation, Stipend: Housing and transportation will be coordinated by the Senator's office, but interns will be responsible for the cost. Interns will be paid a small stipend that is intended to help defray costs associated with the internship program. Housing is located at the Washington Intern Student Housing (WISH) dormitories on Capitol Hill.
If you have any questions, please contact Angelina Burney at the email address above or at 202-224-6665.
 Hello Partners in the Arts and Health!
The arts and mental health are undeniably connected. Arts are where we lose ourselves, where we heal, and find ourselves all over again.
Through the month of February, the Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska will be accepting many forms of art for our 988 CREATE campaign based on the theme: Healing & Support.
Young Alaskan artists could win one of ten $150 prizes (gift cards) – and, more importantly, help change lives for the better!
Contest Overview: What to Share with Young Alaskan Artists!
988 CREATE campaign based on the theme: Healing & Support. Your artwork could win you one of ten $150 prizes (gift cards)
These pieces can be new or past creations and submitted if they fit the theme above.
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Submit your unique art for the 988 Create! art campaign by March 1, 2024. Digital art submissions (jpg, jpeg, mp4, and doc under 25MB) can be submitted here or via email at yaha.alaska@gmail.com.
The winning submissions will be shared on our Instagram page @ak_youth_voice and on the website: https://988.alaska.gov/
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For details, please check out the above website and let young Alaskan artists know we’re excited to hear from them!
Administered by the Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska (YAHA), with support from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), Alaska Department of Health, Division of Behavioral Health, Spirit of Youth, along with many of our other statewide suicide prevention partners.
#Alaska988 #youthresilience #988create
The winning entries will be featured on social media, at the Annual Suicide Prevention Conference as well as making them available to schools, and other organizations across the state. Please spread the word!
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