Alaskan Resources
The Department of Education & Early Development has created a comparison tool for to support the transition to the new standards. This tool can be used to assist educators in analyzing the commonalities and differences between the new standards and the Fourth Edition reading, writing, and mathematics standards (Grade Level Expectations).. This tool is a start toward the transition, and districts may choose to augment the document with more detail. All districts will continue to administer the Standards Based Assessments, which are aligned to.....
Parent/Community Engagement Resources
Comprehensive Planning Template for Schools
This template was designed to help technical assistance and professional development providers work with schools. The results of this school-level assessment can help school personnel identify actions as part of school improvement efforts to design, monitor, or refine increased learning time models.
Comprehensive Planning Template for Districts
This template aims to help technical assistance providers and district-level personnel identify actions and policies and establish a coordinated and coherent districtwide plan to design, select, monitor, and refine increased learning time models.
Methods to Assess Family Needs
Use this tool to guide data collection on potential factors that may affect attendance in your out-of-school program or expanded learning time school.
Changing the Conversation with Families in Persistently Low-Achieving High Schools: Guidance for Implementation of School Improvement Grants
This brief provides information to SEAs and LEAs working with secondary schools, as well as to the schools themselves, to change the conversation with families in order to support reform efforts. The brief begins with research on family engagement at the secondary level to provide an evidence-based foundation for selecting appropriate strategies. Based on the research, the brief then highlights two approaches that hold promise for family engagement.
