COMMONWEALTH
OF VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION
P.O.
BOX 2120
RICHMOND,
VIRGINIA 23218-2120
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 180
October 31, 2003
INFORMATIONAL
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TO: |
Division Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Jo Lynne DeMary Superintendent of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Forums under the No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 |
The Department of
Education will sponsor several forums on implementing the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 for instructional leaders and directors of testing and
accountability specialists. These forums are sponsored by the Division of
Instruction and the Division of Assessment and Reporting and are organized by
prospective audiences, either instructional leaders or testing directors and
accountability/data analysis specialists.
Attachment A contains a quick reference to the content and locations of
all of the forums. Descriptions are
provided below.
Division of Instruction: Instructional Mathematics and Language and Literacy Forums to Address the Needs of LEP Students and Students with Disabilities
These forums,
designated specifically for instructional leaders, content specialists, and
principals, will focus on instructional strategies for addressing the
achievement gap for limited English proficient (LEP) students and students with
disabilities specific to their needs in mathematics and/or language learning
and literacy. The mathematics
forums will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on November 20, 2003,
at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center and repeated on December 11, 2003,
at the Omni Richmond Hotel. The language and literacy forums will
be held on December 8, 2003, at the Doubletree Hotel in Charlottesville and
repeated on December 9, 2003, at the Omni Newport News Hotel. Three representatives from each division are
invited to participate in one of each of the forums.
Instructional
specialists from the Department of Education and practitioners from school
divisions will (1) discuss data interpretation and (2) present effective
instructional practices to use with LEP students and students with
disabilities. Attachment B contains
details and registration information for the instructional forums. If you have
questions about the content of these forums, please contact Diane L. Jay,
specialist, by e-mail djay@mail.vak12ed.edu,
or at (804) 225-2905.
The AYP Technical
Forums, focusing on the technical aspects of the implementation of the NCLB
requirements, are being offered regionally from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on December 3,
2003, at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center; December 5, 2003, at the
Holiday Inn Select Fredericksburg; December 8, 2003, Clarion Hotel and
Conference Center Williamsburg; and December 10, 2003, at the Holiday Inn
Select Lynchburg. Each division is
invited to send its director of testing and another staff member who works with
the analysis of AYP to the technical forum at one of the four locations.
The
purpose of the technical forums will be to increase understanding of Virginias
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirement.
The forums will focus on testing requirements of NCLB, coding the
Standards of Learning (SOL) assessment answer sheets for AYP accountability,
calculating AYP for 2002-2003, and contrasting differences between AYP and
state accreditation accountability. Attachment
C contains details and registration information for the technical forum. If you
have questions about the content of the technical forum, please contact Lolita
B. Hall, associate director, by e-mail at lhall@mail.vak12ed.edu, or at (804)
786-9422.
Registration
Registration for all
forums will be conducted by the Office of Continuing and Professional Education
at Virginia Tech. Materials, lunch, and
breaks will be provided. For those in
need of lodging, a block of overnight rooms at the state government rate has
been reserved at each location. Lodging
costs are the responsibility of the participant. Please contact the hotel directly to make reservations, and refer
to the DOE Forum to ensure the government rate.
Registration forms
should be returned by fax to Terri Sadler at Virginia Tech at (540) 231-3306 by
November 14, 2003. Upon registration receipt, confirmation and driving
directions will be forwarded to each registrant. For registration information,
Mrs. Sadler may also be reached by phone at (540) 231-5182 or by e-mail at tsadler@vt.edu.
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Attachments
/administrators/superintendents_memos/2003/inf180a.doc
/administrators/superintendents_memos/2003/inf180b.doc
/administrators/superintendents_memos/2003/inf180c.doc