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Registration is now open for KSDE’s Great Ideas in Education conference, July 28-30, at the Hyatt Regency, in Wichita. Don’t miss this critical opportunity to kick off the new school year primed for success. Click here to register.
KSDE has been promoting the importance of building coherence in Kansas’ school improvement efforts to effect meaningful change. That coherence must extend to the function and purpose of KSDE’s annual conference.
The Kansas State Department of Education is hosting “Connecting the Dots...For Learning,” March 3-4, in Manhattan. The deadline to register is Feb. 24.
This assessment conference will offer real-world practice sessions featuring teachers, teams, and systems from across Kansas who have embraced proven assessment practices to support teaching and learning. Teachers, leaders, and technical support personnel will learn more about how formative assessments are the foundation to a balanced assessment system.
In collaboration with the Kansas educational learning centers, KSDE is offering structured literacy professional learning now and into this spring.
These sessions are at no cost to the educator and provide a half of a graduate credit for each day of participation.
FastTrack screening assessments to be renormed
Renaissance plans to renorm all FastTrack screening assessments prior to the 2025-26 school year.
This includes aReading (K-12), aMath (K-12), CBMReading (1-8), CBMmath Automaticity (1-12), AUTOreading (K-12), earlyReading composite (K-1), and earlyMath composite (K-1).
The plan is to release the norms prior to the start of the 2025-26 school year.
Contact Jeff Lancial, jeff.lancial@renaissance.com, with questions.
February
18: Science collaboration for curriculum leaders, virtual, 4-5 p.m. Register here. Contact Stephanie Alderman-Oler, stephanie.alderman-oler@ksde.gov, with questions.
19: Science collaboration for science teachers, virtual, 4-5 p.m. Register here. Contact Stephanie Alderman-Oler, stephanie.alderman-oler@ksde.gov, with questions.
19: KSDE CNW “Wellness Wednesday,” 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Click here for the Zoom link. Passcode: 512850. Contact Holly Steinlage, holly.steinlage@ksde.gov, with questions.
19: Data-Driven Success - Unpacking Literacy Assessments for Maximum Impact (K-12), Greenbush, in Girard. Register here. Contact Laurie Curtis, laurie.curtis@ksde.gov, with questions.
24: Deadline to register for “Connecting the Dots...For Learning” assessment conference, March 3-4, Hilton Garden Inn, in Manhattan. Contact Chelsea Pelfrey, chelsea.pelfrey@ksde.gov, or (785) 296-0040, with questions.
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