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Please view the Adult and Family Education Annual Performance Report for FY 2017-18.
As part of our Start of School Campaign, OSSE has once again assembled a list of trainings that will help ensure your LEA is ready for the start of the coming school year.
As detailed in the Mayor’s Order 2004-187, the purpose of the District of Columbia’s State Advisory Panel on Special Education (‘’the panel”) is to serve as an advisory body to the Mayor, the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE -…
The DC Model Teacher Evaluation Framework serves as the foundation for effective teacher evaluation processes, including observation, feedback and coaching. This evaluation rubric provides definitions of effectiveness for each indicator of the framework.
In this external evaluation report, MN Associates, Inc. reports the findings of their pilot year evaluation study on the validity of the DC Model Teacher Evaluation System.
View the minutes from the 2018 public sessions of the Higher Education Licensure Commission (HELC).
LEA English Learner (EL) Coordinators who use this checklist will assist their LEAs in preparing to serve incoming EL students and ensure that both staff and students experience a great start to the 2020-21 school year.
Special education points of contact (POCs) who complete the items in the attached document will assist their LEAs in preparing to serve incoming students with disabilities (SWDs) and ensure that both staff and students experience a great start to for the 2020-21 school year.
This document summarizes requirements for the collection and governance of attendance data submitted by local education agencies (LEAs) in the District of Columbia to OSSE. It supersedes previous guidance issued by OSSE, via the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), on Aug. 23, 2016.
This document contains guidance specific to ensuring data connectivity between LEA School Information Systems (SISs) and the Statewide Longitudinal Education Database (SLED) in advance of each LEAs Start of School, and provides LEAs guidance on how OSSE intends to track attendance in the coming…