Projects in the state of Mississippi
Alabama/Mississippi Community of Practice
SECC staff will continue its Alabama/Mississippi interstate community of practice that focuses on sharing knowledge and expertise between state education agencies. The Alabama/Mississippi Community of Practice (AMCoP) will continue to provide a forum for Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) and Mississippi Department of Education representatives and stakeholders to interact and collaborate with national experts and staff from other SEAs.
College and Career Ready – Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Instructional Support Videos
The Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) has collaborated with the Center on Instruction Content Center and the states in SECC's region to design English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) videos to support states, schools, and teachers with the implementation of the ELA CCSS. Due to a reorganization of the content centers, collaboration efforts are at present only with the states in SECC's region. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on providing specific examples and illustrations to address the standard.
College- and Career-Ready State Standards Resource Review
All five states in the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) region have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as a vehicle for preparing college- and career-ready students. To assist these states with their implementation of the CCSS, program associates from the SECC do an exhaustive review of the CCSS resources in order to provide the best CCSS resources to the states in the SECC region. These resources are updated twice annually to provide SECC states with guidance in implementing the CCSS.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Instructional Support Videos
The Common Core State Standards Mathematics (CCSSM) videos are designed to support states, schools, and teachers in the implementation of the CCSS for mathematics. The videos were created in collaboration with the states in the Southeast Comprehensive Center region based on their needs for professional development support for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on specific standards and includes examples and illustrations geared to enhancing understanding.
Cross-State Community of Practice (CoP)
SECC staff will initiate an interstate community of practice that focused on sharing knowledge and expertise between state education agencies. The CoP will provide a forum for SEA representatives and stakeholders to interact and collaborate with national experts and staff from other SEAs.
Ensuring School Readiness Community of Practice
SECC will establish a regional community of practice (CoP) focused on ensuring school readiness and success of preschool-age children in the five states in its region. This CoP will provide a forum in which SEA representatives can interact and collaborate with national experts and staffs from other SEAs to learn about research-based and emerging promising practices in the area of school readiness, analyze their state's use of resources to address this topic, and develop strategies for strengthening connections between services provided through funding sources and K–12 standards and expectations in the state.
Federal Program Support
SECC will continue to provide co-facilitation and content expertise for the MDE Federal Programs Steering Committee. The committee provides a forum in which MDE staff can interact and strengthen connections with local school districts, obtain feedback from districts on key statewide topics, analyze state practices, and identify evidence-based responses. Additionally, SECC will work with MDE on enhancing the current Office of Federal Programs’ (OFP) internal plan of work to develop a three-year systemic plan and on building the capacity of OFP staff members to provide effective TA to school districts.
MDE College- and Career-Readiness Standards Scaffolding Documents
SECC will provide technical assistance to MDE in the editorial review of the mathematics and English language arts college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards scaffolding documents. The document review will focus on consistency in formatting, use of technical language, and grammatical structure.
Mississippi Accreditation Standards Revision
This project will be an extension of the Year 2 Accreditation work. SECC staff will continue to work with MDE's Office of Accreditation to finalize the review of the state process standards, providing content expertise throughout the process.
Mississippi Counselor Crisis Response Materials
SECC will continue to provide technical assistance to the Mississippi Crisis Task Force for the revision of "When Tragedy Strikes" and training for all school counselors in the state, as identified by the state counseling contact.
Mississippi Educator Evaluation Systems
SECC will continue to provide technical assistance to MDE with the implementation of its multiple metric principal and teacher evaluation systems that meet federal ESEA Flexibility Waiver requirements. The MDE currently is fully implementing statewide the Mississippi Principal Evaluation System (MPES) and the Mississippi Teacher Evaluation System (MTES).
Mississippi English Learners
SECC will continue to assist the Office of Federal Programs in expanding state support to school districts in the area of ELs. The SECC will work with the Mississippi EL personnel and other key MDE staff to build the state’s internal capacity to implement Title III legal requirements and to facilitate the state’s provision of evidenced-based support to schools and districts serving EL students.
Mississippi Internal Program Evaluations
SECC staff will support SEA staff as they design the newly instituted Office of Program Evaluation, which will reflect centralization of information regarding program evaluations administered by MDE.
Mississippi Low-Performing Schools Performance Management and Planning
SECC staff will continue to work with SEA staff in the delivery of support services to low-performing SIG, priority, and focus schools.
MS Academics, Skills, Knowledge V (MS ASK V)
The Mississippi Academics, Skills, and Knowledge in Career and Technical Education pilot project offers six districts the unique opportunity to participate in professional development training using a coaching model, which focuses on research-based strategies designed to increase literary skills in respective CTE content areas.
MS Early Childhood
SECC will continue to provide TA with the implementation of SB 2395 and to work with MDE early childhood staff to provide appropriate school readiness resources and services to early childhood stakeholders and program providers.
MS Strategic Planning
SECC will continue to provide technical assistance with strategic planning, as requested by MDE, including strategic planning work with the Office of Communication, Office of Accreditation, and the Office of Special Education.
Promoting Equitable Access at the State and Local Levels Regional Institute
Each year, the SECC provides a regional institute in an identified priority area for SEAs. The SECC will support the attendance of a team from each state for the institute. Additional follow up will take place after the institute to aid statewide implementation efforts.
Support for Implementing Mississippi’s Common Core State Standards
SECC will provide high-quality resources based on research-based and emerging promising practices targeted to high-need populations. SECC will coordinate with the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) and the Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) to develop supports for high-need populations teachers (including special education and English learners [EL]) implementing CCSS.
