Work in South Dakota

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Crazy Horse Little Wound School American
Horse Porcupine Wounded Knee Isna Wica Owaya Pine
Ridge Shannon County
Eagle Butte School Takini School Tiospa Topa
Crow Creek School Crow Creek Early Childhood
St. Francis Todd County
Lower Brule LB Early Childhood
Flandreau Indian School
Smee Schools Sitting Bull
Tiospa Zina Enemy Swim Day School
Italicized Schools Paid Members
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Tribal College Partners
Oglala Lakota College
Lower Brule Community College
Sinte Gleska University
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OSEC Governance

• 3 Membership meetings per year
• 7 person board elected from membership serving
  staggard 2 year terms
• Board meetings once a month (usually 2nd Monday
  of the month)
• Executive Director Manages Daily Operations

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OSEC Organization Chart (Currently 20 Employees)
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Alternative Definition of Adequate Yearly Progress

• Determines what is taught in the schools
  (Standards)
• Determines how students are assessed (Testing)
• Determines if schools are making Adequate Yearly
  Progress (AYP)

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BIE Directs Schools to Follow State AYP
Determination

• Must follow State Standards (No tribal input into
  State Standards.
• Must use State Assessment (Tests are developed
  and normed on off-reservation communities.
• Must use State AYP cut-off scores established by
  Non-Native experts

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NCLB Provides for Tribes or groups of tribal
schools to Define their own Accountability
Workbook
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2004

• March Initial Meeting Pierre Indian Learning
  Center
• June 28 Video Conference, Standards Planning
• July Initial Math and Reading Standards Drafted
• Math Dr. Eastman, Dr. Johnson
• Reading Chris McCoy, Rebecca Williams
• October School boards approved OSEC AYP
  definition plans and authorize OSEC to negotiate
  with OIEP regarding adoption of alternative
  definition

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2005

• January 1st Draft Standards aligned and
  presented to OSEC membership
• January, Alert Pine Ridge Line Office of
  Alternative AYP definition activity
• February Contract with Dr. Zalud and Reins from
  USD to provide external review of standards and
  to align to State and National Standards
• April Uploaded first draft to OSEC website
• May 9 Initial letter requesting technical support
  from OIEP
• June 27, Letter to Sharon Wells responding to
  letter regarding requirement for school board
  approval with board resolutions
• August 10 Letter to Ed Parisian
• October Ted Hamilton and Roger Bordeaux Travel to
  New Mexico
• November, Pat Abeyta contacts Wounded Knee
  District School to provide TA for alternative AYP
  without contacting other schools and ignoring
  OSEC.
• December Pat Abeyta scheduled to attend TA
  Meeting at LNI, does not make it to meeting. No
  reasons given.

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2006

• January 23,Congressional Delegation Letter
• March 16 OIEP Reply to Congress indicating funds
  spent on NASIS system rather than assessment
  development
• March 28 Conference Call considering brining
  suit to OIEP over Safe harbor issues and
  discussed alternative AYP
• May School Boards send letters requesting waiver
  to OEIP.
• November 13, Correspondence with Pat Abeyta
  regarding alternative AYP thanks to interest from
  Tom Dowd

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2007

• February 27 met with Pat Abeyta on AYP process
• May 7 Met with Tom Dowd regarding AYP
• June Submitted Part 1 AYP TA Request
• June 25-27 Wrote new accountability workbook with
  Pat Abeyta
• November 29 met with DOE/DPA/BIE staff regarding
  alternative AYP and was assigned JP Boudine as
  consultant. Requested development of a plan and
  budget for development of assessment

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2008

• March Submitted AYP Assessment Development
  Request
• April 8 Met with Stan Holder
• April 9 Committee rejects first BIE offer
• June Submit 4th Draft AYP Accountability Workbook
  through JP Beaudoin
• September 5 Stand Holder Letter asking for letter
  to BIE outlining statutory reasons for BIE to
  approve Accountability Workbook and indicating
  pending FDD for Language Assessment Development
• November 18 Letter to Keven Skennadore from Blue
  Dog and Associates responding to September 5th
  letter
• November, Language Summit Meeting 3 days to
  develop standards/assessment development
  work-plan
• LNI Meeting to review AYP activities.

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2009

• Hired Miranda Eastman to direct assessment
  development activities
• Implement Standards/Assessment Development plan
• February 27 Steering Committee Meeting to discuss
  BIE Response to November letter.

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What we Need

• Direction from Tribal Charimans Organization to
  Mr. Artman that BIE fully fund the assessment
  evelopment and accept the alternative AYP
  workbook in the next week.
• Consider holding next GPTCA meeting to focus on
  education issues.

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