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Assessment Questions:
Assessment Help Desk
Mark Stephenson
(785) 296-3379
mstephenson@ksde.org

Kansas Course Code Management System (KCCMS)
Database of all your school
courses offered Pre-K-12
KCCMS Help Desk
(785) 296-2078
kccms@ksde.org

Educator Data Collection System (EDCS)
Licensed Personnel Report (LPR)
Links teacher to course in KCCMS
Lori Adams or Susan Helbert
(785) 296-3835
ladams@ksde.org

Kansas Individual Data on Students (KIDS)
Student-Teacher-Course (STCO)
Links student to teacher & course
KIDS Help Desk
(785) 296-7935
KIDS@ksde.org

Career and Technical Education(CTE) Pathways
16 career clusters with 31 pathways Career Clusters link students' education to needed knowledge/skills for higher education & careers.
Pathway Help Desk
(785) 296-2261
pathwayshelpdesk@ksde.org

Career Cluster Contacts.pdf

Curricular Standards, Model Standards, and Resources

Assessed Standards:

Writing

English for Speakers of Other Languages

Resources/ Requirements /Timelines:

Model Standards:
(Non-Assessed)

Educational Resources:
21st Century Learning Teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century.
Common Core State Standards Initiative The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy.
Kansas Education Resource Center (KERC) The Kansas Education Resource Center contains tools for teachers to use in aligning classroom instruction and assessment to Kansas’ academic standards.
Kansas All Books Connect Kansas ABC is a reading initiative consisting of tools and services to help educators and parents match books to kids to promote successful reading practice.
The Lexile Framework for Reading Lexile measures describe the reading level of a student and the difficulty of a text on a single scale and are linked with scores on the Kansas reading assessments in Grades 3-8 and high school. Teachers and parents can use Lexile measures to select books that are likely to improve the reading and comprehension skills of students.
Thinkfinity Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources.
Online Standards Modules The modules included in this training are intended to increase teacher knowledge, understanding and skills in the instruction of Kansas curriculum standards and in the alignment of those standards with classroom, school, district, and state assessments.
Online Training: Assessment Literacy Project The KSDE Assessment Literacy Project includes 21 different modules designed to enhance the assessment literacy of educators in an online, interactive format.


in partnership with
Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE)
Kansas Education Resource Center (KERC)
Thinkfinity.org and Thinkfinity Community are the Verizon Foundation's free, comprehensive digital learning platform that gives educators access to over 55,000 educational resources. The site includes panel-reviewed lesson plans, interactive tools, classroom activities, and student materials for grades K - 12. The resources are provided in partnership with leading national educational and literacy organizations. These websites offer resources across all grade levels and multiple curriculum areas: Arts, Economics, History, Humanities, Mathematics, Reading and Language Arts, Science and Geography.





The Kansas State Department of Education is a Verizon Thinkfinity rollout partner organization that provides the infrastructure to share the program throughout Kansas. KSDE works with Verizon Thinkfinity to organize professional development on effective Internet integration and align Kansas standards to the Thinkfinity resources (http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1678). We recommend that educators take advantage of the resources located at Thinkfinity.org that are available at no charge from the national Verizon Thinkfinity program, and also available on the KERC website (www.kerc-ks.org) and the Kansas Thinkfinity website (http://kansasverizonthinkfinity.ning.com/). If you are interested in training or professional development go to http://thinkfinity.org/pd/request_training.aspx for more information. The KSDE Career, Standards and Assessment Services team and KERC coordinate the Verizon Thinkfinity program throughout Kansas. For more information please contact: KSDE Primary Contact – Jeannette Nobo, jnobo@ksde.org ALTEC Secondary Contact – Jana Craig Hare, jana@altec.org