Collaborative Approach for Student Success:

Evening Information Sessions for Family and Community Organizations
 

The Connecticut Parent Information and Resource Center (CT PIRC) invites your organization to participate in a training series
  facilitated by representatives from the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE), Bureau of Accountability and
Improvement. The series will provide participants from family and community organizations with information on the following
topics and facilitate sharing this information with their constituencies in order to support improved outcomes for children.

Participants may attend the entire series or select one or more session of interest:

Thursday, April 22, 2010 – Connecticut Accountability for Learning Initiative (CALI)
  The CSDE developed and implemented the Connecticut Accountability for Learning Initiative (CALI) to
accelerate the learning of all students, with special emphasis placed on districts with Title I schools that have
been identified as “in need of improvement,” according to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The goal of
CALI is to provide a model of state support to districts and schools to enhance the process of continuous
school and district improvement through professional development and technical assistance.

Thursday, May 6, 2010 – School Improvement Grants (SIG) and the Reauthorization of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
All sessions This session covers the requirements of the federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) and the
reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and their implications for
Time:
  Connecticut school districts. For Fiscal Year 2009-10, there is $3.5 billion available for SIG grants.
5 - 7 p.m.
  Connecticut will receive $24 million, which will be available to eligible districts in the form of competitive
  Location: grants. According to federal requirements for the SIG, Connecticut must give priority in awarding SIG funds
  State Education to districts with persistently lowest-achieving schools. There are 23 of these schools in Connecticut.
Resource
  Center Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education has recently released broad principles for renewing the ESEA
  SERC Library that seek to address perennial complaints that the law’s current version—the No Child Left Behind Act—is
Community Room inflexible and doesn’t set a high-enough bar for academic achievement.
 
Middletown, CT
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 – Scientific Research-Based Interventions (SRBI)
Scientific Research-Based Interventions (SRBI) is Connecticut’s framework for Response to Intervention
(RTI). The SRBI process is used to determine if and how students respond to instruction and social-
emotional learning and provides a framework for school teams for designing, implementing, and evaluating
educational interventions in a timely manner. SRBI emphasizes successful instruction for all students through
high-quality general education practices, as well as targeted interventions for students experiencing learning,
social‐emotional, or behavioral difficulties. 
-----------------------------------------------Please register below or online at www.ctserc.org-------------------------------------------
APPLICATION FORM: Evening Information Sessions (10-47-033/034/035)-CT PIRC) sl (Please print clearly.)
Please check appropriate sessions: April 22, 2010 (CALI) ____ May 6, 2010 (SIG/ESEA) ____ June 8, 2010 (SRBI) ____
Name SERC MEMBER # (IF KNOWN)
Home Phone Preferred E-mail
Home Address
City State Zip Code
School / Program / Agency Work Phone
School District / Town Position / Role
If an accommodation is needed for workshop participation, please specify:
Send applications to the following address or fax number to the attention of Suequanna Lewis, Project Assistant, CT PIRC.

CT PIRC  25 Industrial Park Road  Middletown, CT 06457-1516

Phone (860) 632-1485 – Fax (860) 632-8870 – www.ctserc.org