The Wyoming Department of Education's mission is to Create Opportunities for Students to Keep Wyoming Strong with a vision to significantly increase the percentage of Wyoming students who are college, career, and military ready by 2020. Focusing in five key areas—improving school performance, involvement in career and technical education pathways, the Hathaway Success Curriculum, third-grade reading proficiency, and involvement with online learning opportunities—the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) is working to fulfill its mission. Through the collaborative projects with NCCC, Wyoming is moving its vision forward.
Wyoming Collaboration Projects
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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.
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Developing Wyoming’s Certified Teacher Evaluation System
In collaboration with the WDE, Center for Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL), and REL Central, NCCC will: 1) Connect CPES Educator Advisory Panel members and provide professional learning about available GTL resources, including information on the components of an educator evaluation system and information on other states are incorporating instructional practice into educator evaluation systems, 2) incorporate instruction into teacher evaluation systems, and 3) develop a communications plan.
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Wyoming State Digital Learning Plan Advisory
Panel Begins Work
In December, the Wyoming State Digital Learning Plan Advisory Panel met to begin work on a 5 year strategic plan. Learn more about what they accomplished in NCCC’s first video news story! For more information on this project, contact Adena Miller at amiller@mcrel.org or call 303-632-5530.
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Wyoming Department of Education Hits the Road for Digital Learning Plan
Staff from the Wyoming Department of Education and NCCC’s Adena Miller hit the road to gather stakeholder input for the state’s Digital Learning Plan. For more information on this project, contact Adena Miller at amiller@mcrel.org or call 303-632-5530.
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The goal is to provide school leaders -- living and working in underserved rural areas -- with access to regional, state and national experts, addressing topics they are interested in exploring with an opportunity to discuss challenges pertinent to their work.
More details are available at the University of Wyoming website.
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