Fall Title I Coordinator Network Meeting - CESA #4 Fall...CESA 4 Title I Team •Nicole Cooksey, Director and Math Specialist [email protected] •Laura Veglahn, Director and

Fall Title I Coordinator Network Meeting

CESA 4 Title I Team

•Nicole Cooksey, Director and Math Specialist

[email protected]

•Laura Veglahn, Director and Reading Specialist

[email protected]

•Donna Elsen, Program Assistant

[email protected]

District Check-In

1 Strategy you’ve used to connect Title I staff to data (student learning)

2 Challenges your school faces this year

3 Key players in Title I programming in your district

Title I Resources and Websites

http://titleone.dpi.wi.gov

http://www.cesa4.k12.wi.us/programs/title1.cfm

Title I Network Ti

CESA #4 Lending Library Title I Tip of the Week

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind - Eric Jensen

Read the introduction (if you choose) and chapter one.

Which of the 7 factors pose the strongest challenge for you and your school?

Can you envision overcoming these challenges? Explain your reasoning.

Have you already recognized and attempted to address any of these factors on your school? Have you felt successful?

How can you use this resource with your Title I staff (and all staff)?

Taking PD back to your staff-- Chapter 2

DPI UpdatesReauthorization Updates

Comparability Completion

Monitoring

Homeless Updates

SAGE/AGR

Schools of Recognition & Spotlight Schools

Monitoring & Documentation 2015-2016

★ Welcome Kyle!

Kyle Peaden

(608) 266-5404

[email protected]

Obligating and Liquidating Title I Federal Funds

In case there are

questions about

fiscal years and

expending funds...

Reauthorization Updates

WI granted a 3 year waiver

Requirement-- will have to identify new cohort of focus and priority schools

Possibility ESEA will be re-authorized yet

Comparability Completion

Data collected every two years by DPI but must be reported annuallyTitle I application must be submitted before completing the comparability reportComparability---opens in Oct. Districts have 4-6 weeks to complete.

Homeless Updates & Review

Q: If a student experiencing homelessness attends a school that does not receive Title I, Part A funds, how does the student receive services?

A: Every school district that receives Title IA funds is required to set aside a portion of its allotment to provide comparable services to homeless students attending schools that do not receive Title IA services

Q: What kind of services can Title I, Part A funds (including set-asides and other funds) pay for?

AGR is the new SAGEAchievement Gap Reduction

SAGE apply for one year extension - to maintain current classroom ratios (18 to 1 or 30 to 2)

or a new 5-year contract as an AGR school

AGR schools have the option of maintaining classroom ratios, providing one-to-one tutoring for students, or providing instructional coaching to teachers

More guidance to come

All SAGE schools will be AGR by 16-17

Schools of Recognition & Spotlight Schools

Spotlight schools are schools where effective practices that are positively impacting student learning and achievement are being implemented. Schools eligible to apply have to be identified as Wisconsin Title I Schools of Recognition for at least the last three consecutive years.

Map of Current schoolsNorwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School Lawrence-Lawson Elementary School

Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District Sparta Area School District

Title I Programming

IssuesSupplement or Supplant Scenarios

Parent Involvement

Private School Communication

Supplement or Supplant Activity

Read through the provided scenario with a partner and answer the questions.

Discussion to follow.

Parent Involvement-- APTT’s in WI

*Targeted at School-level teams

*Classroom teachers

*Title I Staff

*Building leadership team

*Principal

Reimagining Parent Involvement in Title I Programming Workshop

Private School Communication

Best Practices for Title I Coordinators

Updates from the Field

WI T1 Association

NCTM

WSRA

WI Title I Association

Scholarships

2016 Spring Conference - April 7 & 8

Keynoters: Mary Howard & Linda Hoyt

NCTM

Mathematics Education Meets Excellence - Regional Conference Minneapolis, Minnesota | November 11-13

Calculation Nation: http://calculationnation.nctm.org/

Online math strategy games for upper elementary and middle school

WSRA

Conference - February 4-6, 2016

Wired Wednesdays

*Free with WSRA membership

*focus on culturally responsive practices

For Teachers & Coordinators

Read for the Record

How to Learn Math

Title I Network Professional Development offerings for 15-16

Read for the RecordNot Norman: A Goldfish Story, written by Kelly Bennett and illustrated by Noah Z. Jones

How to Learn Math

For all levels of learners of Mathematics

3 - 10 minute lessons

3 - 20 minutes lessons

Helping students (and teachers) overcome a fixed mindset about how people do, or don’t, learn mathematics!

https://www.youcubed.org/category/mooc/

Breaking News! released 9/10/15

Data Recognition Corporation (DRC), a Midwestern assessment company with a Wisconsin office, received a letter of intent from the state to contract for state assessment.

Students will take the Wisconsin Forward Exam in spring 2016.

Agenda items for Winter meeting

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