Middle Level Liaisons and Support Schools Network

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Middle Level Liaisons and Support Schools Network

• Update on OCIS Initiatives
• Howard J. GoldsmithExecutive CoordinatorOffice
  of Curriculum and Instructional Support
  (OCIS)NYS Education Department
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• November 16, 2006

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Office of Curriculum and Instructional Support
(OCIS)

Assistant Commissioners Office Howard J.
Goldsmith Executive Coordinator

Curriculum, Instruction and Instructional
Technology Anne Schiano
Adult Education and Workforce Development
Tom Orsini
Career and Technical Education Konrad Raup
Bilingual Education and Foreign Language
Studies Pedro Ruiz
Summer Institutes Mary Daley
GED UNIT Patricia Mooney
www.emsc.nysed.gov/cis
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Curriculum, Instruction and Instructional
Technology (CIIT)

1. Integration of Middle Level Education into CIIT
   to enhance content area input and expertise.
2. Within the Regents P-16 Initiative, action step
   number 6 includes the revisitation of the
   learning standards.
3. The P-16 paper can be accessed at
   www.oms.nysed.gov/comm/2006/1006commrep.html
4. Literacy program with District Superintendents

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Career and Technical Education (CTE)

• Perkins re-authorization as Perkins IV.
• Perkins can be used in the 7th and 8th grades.
  Applied learning can be an innovative approach to
  enhance middle level education and student
  performance.
• Interim State Plan by April 16, 2007 with a final
  five-year plan due by April 2008. Public
  hearings and input will be solicited between
  December 2007 and February 2008.

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Career and Technical Education (CTE)(continued)
Partnering with the Career Technical Education Resource Center to host seven workshops. Partnering with the Career Technical Education Resource Center to host seven workshops.
Buffalo October 25, 2006
New York City November 7, 2006
Rochester November 9, 2006
Syracuse November 13, 2006
Long Island November 29, 2006
Yonkers/White Plains December 4, 2006
Albany January 23, 2007
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New York State Summer Institutes(NYSSSA)

• Eight programs in the areas of ballet, dance,
  choral, jazz, orchestra, theater, visual arts,
  and media arts.
• Auditions for the summer 2007 program begin in
  January 2007.
• Students in grades 8 through 12 are eligible to
  apply.
• http//www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa/si.shtml

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Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies
(OBEFLS)

• Fourteen BETACs (Bilingual Education Technical
  Education Centers) throughout the state to serve
  approximately 200,000 LEP/ELL students.
• Develops and improves NYSESLAT with the Office of
  State Assessment (OSA).
• Manages State and Federal (Title III) funds for
  LEP students.

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Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies
(continued)

• Title I vs. Title III.
• NYSESLAT and ELA testing.
• Results of the U.S. Education Department Title I
  Peer Review and the new Federal requirement for
  testing LEP/ELL students.
• Our position and next steps.

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Thank You

• Howard J. Goldsmith
• New York State Education Department
• Office of Curriculum and Instructional Support
• OCIS Website www.emsc.nysed.gov/cis/
• E-mail emscocis_at_mail.nysed.gov
• Telephone [phone]