CALENDAR

January

Through March 4: Educator Data Collection System is open now through March 4 for submission of Licensed Personnel Report. 

5: Deadline for test coordinators to submit requests for accommodations for ACT. 

5: Deadline to submit accommodations requests for ACT through the Test Accessibility and Accommodations System (TAA). It takes time for approval, so please submit requests early.  

5: 1-3 p.m., Special Education and Related Services Funding Task Force meeting. Kansas Statehouse in Topeka. 

8: 1-2 p.m., webinar for fiscal year 2023 annual reporting survey for Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. This webinar won’t be recorded. 

9: 9-9:45 a.m., KSDE Accreditation and Design’s KESA monthly update. To join the meeting, click here. The meeting ID is 817 5984 8641 and the passcode is 350663.  

9: 9-11:30 a.m., E-Rate training. Sign up in the KSDE Training Portal to attend. 

9-10: Kansas State Board of Education meeting. Landon State Office Building. 

10: 4-5 p.m. KSDE’s monthly math meeting. Topic: Student engagement. Zoom: https://ksde.zoom.us/j/88043941824. For more information, contact KSDE’s Jennifer Hamlet via email at jhamlet@kse.org or by phone at 785-296-6823. 

11: FastBridge session at Haysville USD 261.  

12: Submission deadline for fiscal year 2023 annual reporting survey for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. 

12: Deadline to enroll students for paper WorkKeys and for ACT paper and online in the Student Data Upload Header Template. 

12: Submission deadline for KSDE AEOP Margaret Van Horn Scholarship. The 2024 application can be found on the KSDE AEOP website at https://www.ksde.org/AEOP-Page.   

15: KSDE offices closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

15: 5 p.m. 2024-2025 Kansas Preschool Pilot grant applications due. 

16: 1-3:30 p.m. E-Rate training. Sign up in the KSDE Training Portal to attend. 

17: 1 p.m., FERPA 101. First session in the KSDE Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Professional Development Webinar Series. The U.S. Department of Education, through the Student Privacy Policy Office’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), will conduct this introductory presentation on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy ACT (FERPA), which is a federal law protecting students’ privacy. Brittani Fairchild, a data privacy analyst for AEM/PTAC, will this session. Register by clicking here. 

22: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. KSDE’s Kansas Individual Data on Students (KIDS) Training Session. Fort Larned USD 495 District Office, 120 E. 6th St. in Larned. To register, visit the KSDE Training Portal.