College and Career Pathways

SECC will provide technical expertise for the Georgia Department of Education's development and implementation of career pathways for 17 career clusters. The pathways will include a career awareness program for elementary school students, a career explorations program for middle school students, and career clusters for high school students.

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On October 3, Ellen Cushing, Catherine Jacques, and GeMar Neloms from the College and Career Readiness and Success (CCRS) Center at AIR, Glenda Copeland, SECC Georgia state liaison, and Barbara Wall and Dwayne Hobbs, of GaDOE, participated in a debrief of the first task force meeting in Macon on September 21. The group discussed the concern about the importance of business representation in the work. It was determined that the next meeting of the task force would be in December.On October 27, Ellen Cushing, Catherine Jacques, and GeMar Neloms from the CCRS Center, SECC's Glenda Copeland, and Dwayne Hobbs, GaDOE, participated in a call to review the preliminary agenda and proposed activity for the second meeting of the Employability Task Force in December. The group also reviewed participant evaluation survey data from the first meeting. In October, Erin McCann, SECC senior researcher, continued to provide feedback to CTAE managers on their work plans for Goal 5 of the GaDOE Strategic Plan. McCann will work with CTAE Director Wall to incorporate these plans into the overall CTAE strategic management plan.
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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.

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The partial list of suggested resources was reviewed for inclusion/exclusion by SECC staff. RMC and SECC staff met and made final inclusion decisions for the first list of resources. RCC staff continued the research and evaluation of additional prospective resources for inclusion in the winter edition. Distribution expanded to include SEA staff the are participants in the SECC Assessment and Accountability Network. 
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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.

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Video on standard 7.G.A.2 Part 1 was corrected and captions edited and approved. Transcripts for videos on standard 7.G.A.2 Part 1 and 7.G.A.2 Part 2 were created and forwarded for review and approval. 
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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.

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The monthly project update will be added as work progresses.
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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.

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On October 3, SECC and CEELO held their monthly conference call tocontinue collaboration and discussion of early childhood efforts in SECC’s region and nationally. The SECC early childhood team continued to update the virtual community site with current research-based information and practices as well as early childhood news and events. The site serves as a vehicle for collaboration and knowledge building to strengthen early childhood systems across the region. The SECC early childhood team also disseminated the monthly ECCoP E-Newsletter to sustain collaborative efforts and deepen awareness of early childhood activities and efforts across the southeast region and nationally. In addition, the SECC team shared several E-Alerts with information about upcoming webinars that are important to states’ work with ESSA. The team also sought feedback from CoP members concerning how SECC can better meet their needs and to learn about topics of interest. Presently, 90% of the members have participated in the survey.
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GA Strategic Planning and Performance Management

SECC will assist GaDOE in the development of an annual strategic planning process, by reexamining its mission, goals, strategies, and organizational structures. The SECC in collaboration with the Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP) Center will also aid GaDOE in improving the function of the agency by focusing on clear, measurable, and well-communicated goals and managing their performance at all levels to attain those goals.

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On October 11, Glenda Copeland, SECC Georgia state liaison, and Tara Zuber, AIR researcher, conducted a feedback session for 60 teachers to collect responses to questions from the ESSA writing teams at the Twin Towers East. SECC will provide individual reports of the feedback sessions to Matt Jones, chief of staff at GaDOE, and the ESSA writing teams. They also will provide a summary report from all sessions, including the eight regional sessions conducted by the Education First group and from the Southern Education Foundation meeting.
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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.

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Two SECC states, Georgia and Mississippi, were selected to participate in the Talent for Turnaround Leadership Academy’s first cohort, which will allow them to collaborate to design and implement innovative talent management strategies to attract, support, and retain excellent educators in the highest need, lowest performing schools. The states were notified that the first T4TLA national conference will be December 1–2, with the introductory T4TLA webinar for RCC/SEA/LEA teams set for November 1. The two states were asked to work closely with SECC to ensure that they named and confirmed district partners and named a complete team of staff to participate. Submission of completed tables to the Great Teachers and Leaders Center (GTL) at AIR was requested by October 14. In support of the cross-department collaboration encouraged by T4T, states were asked to identify a minimum of two SEA staff and two LEA staff from each participating district, with a focus on staff who are responsible for school improvement and educator effectiveness/equitable access. 
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Strengthen SEA’s Support of Districts and Schools

SECC will serve as a collaborating partner in planning for professional learning opportunities for school improvement staff and school improvement specialists to meet the needs of priority, focus, and alert schools. SECC will support implementation of the Indistar data management system to enable continuous, targeted assistance to schools and districts and the IndiSEA data management system to provide coordination of various departments’ roles in their support for Georgia’s districts.

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On October 5, Georgia was notified it was selected to participate in Talent for Turnaround Leadership Academy. Georgia was one of eight states and the District of Columbia selected for cohort I. Georgia confirmed selection of the district and team with whom it will partner with over the coming year. The first webinar for this academy will take place on November 1. On October 12, Will Rumbaugh at GaDOE participated in Making Connections: Transforming School Turnaround Leadership Policy & Practice along with SECC's Glenda Copeland and other SECC staff with the Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Chicago. Catherine Barbour and Matthew Clifford, from AIR's Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, presented workshops on hiring and recruitment and development and retention for the group.
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Support for Students with Disabilities

SECC will support the Division of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment by providing support and resources to help meet the needs of districts in implementing the Special Education Supports and Services’ State Systemic Improvement Plan, developing a statewide literacy plan, and providing technical assistance on gathering and analyzing stakeholder feedback on services provided by GaDOE.

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On October 19, Beth Howard-Brown, SECC director, and Glenda Copeland, SECC Georgia state liaison, participated in a phone call with Deborah Gay, deputy superintendent for Federal Programs and Special Education, and Zelphine Smith-Dixon, director of Special Education, to discuss their interest in examining the work of the various Georgia Learning Resource System (GLRS) centers and determining a consistent role supporting the SSIP plan in Georgia. Smith-Dixon will determine participants from her group and contact Copeland to set a date to begin the process of surveying centers to collect useful data.  
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Teacher and Leader Effectiveness

SECC staff will work with the Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Division to provide nonbiased and useful data from participants across the state to inform advisory groups’ recommendations on the implementation of TKES and LKES for recommended adjustments to the process and resources and consultation on evaluation issues from research and best practices.

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All items and work requested for this project have been completed and the project is now closed.
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