Spring School StatNet Meeting March 28th, Budget Development and Aligning Curriculum and Instruction to Common Core

Please plan to attend the next School StatNet meeting, which will be held on Friday, March 28th, from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Worcester Technical High School. Breakfast and lunch will be served. There will be two primary topics discussed at the meeting, and attendees are welcome to participate in a mix of sessions. All workshops will center around an analysis of data that districts have submitted in advance. Meeting topics will be:

SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND DECISION-MAKING: In a series of workshops, district administrators will compare notes on their budget development processes and on the budgeting decisions they are making this year. Additional discussions will focus on: 1. Tools and strategies that give building-level administrators more autonomy in budgeting decisions; and 2. Examples of how districts use data on transportation to make decisions.

ALIGNING CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENTS TO PARCC AND THE COMMON CORE: In these segments, district administrators will discuss how they are preparing for the transition to PARCC and how they are working to align their current or planned instructional strategies and local assessments to the Common Core.

TO RSVP: Please complete these two steps. First, send an e-mail to Amy Dain at amy.dain@umb.edu - with name, title, affiliation and email. Second, attendees from districts should complete this data collection form and send it to Amy Dain no later than March 21st. The data will inform all parts of the meeting, and having your district’s data gives the conversation more substance.