South Dakota

South Dakota Education System Profile

SOUTH DAKOTA

NCCC Liaison

303-632-5634

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The South Dakota Department of Education is dedicated to four overarching aspirations for students:

Students enter 4th grade proficient in reading.

Students enter 9th grade proficient in math.

Increase the academic success of Native American students.

Students graduate high school ready for the postsecondary and the workforce.

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south dakota Collaboration Projects

Building Capacity to Support English Learner Academic Success

In collaboration with the WY, NE, ND, and SD SEAs, NCCC will: 1) train cohort members in all four states to increase knowledge of discourse strategies; 2) collaborate with SEAs to develop instructional “Look Fors” that principals can use to guide classroom observations of teachers that serve EL students; 3) help cohorts adopt a data-driven process to examine professional development reach and outcomes; 4) collaborate with SEAs to develop a parent infographic that explains the EL identification, parent notification, programming, and exit process; and 5) assist SEAs in efforts to implement ESSA-driven processes.

Innovating SD’s ESSA School Quality Indicators

In collaboration with the SD SEA, NCCC will: 1) provide a research synthesis to inform the innovation of the school quality indicator process; 2) facilitate a meeting of the SD ESSA Implementation Team to prioritize and narrow the focus for the Fifth Indicator Stakeholder Group; and 3) facilitate Fifth Indicator Stakeholder Group meetings to explore innovative school quality indicators and develop a pilot process for new school quality indicators.

Revision of the SD Perkins Plan

In collaboration with the SD SEA and the College and Career Readiness and Success Center (CCRS) NCCC will: 1) identify resources to inform the Perkins Plan revision process and recommend comparable state and national models for review by the SEA CTE Team; 2) facilitate CTE vision development by the SEA CTE Team; 3) facilitate the development tools and materials with the SD CTE Team to conduct a listening tour to gather input from stakeholder groups regarding the contents of the Perkins Plan; 4) synthesize findings from CTE listening tour to inform Perkins Plan development; 5) facilitate the development and analysis of a SD survey based on listening tour feedback to gather more feedback regarding stakeholder priorities for the Perkins Plan; and 6) facilitate the SD CTE Team developing an outline for the state Perkins Plan.

See the exciting school improvement work that is being done in the South Dakota Department of Education. South Dakota LEAP is an online interactive self-improvement planning tool for school teams to inform, coach, sustain, track and report improvement activities as they develop their improvement plan & then manage the continuous improvement process. South Dakota LEAP is premised on the belief that school improvement is best accomplished when directed by the people closest to the students!

South Dakota LEAP

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