K-12 Education

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• Find Information about Smarter Balanced

  This page provides information about the Smarter Balanced Assessments administered in Grades 3 - 8 for ELA and Mathematics.

• Connecticut Interim Assessments: Smarter Balanced and Next Generation Science

  This page provides information about The Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments for mathematics and English language arts (ELA)/literacy. They are available to students in Grades 3 – 8 and high school. The interim Assessments are one of the three components of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System—along with the end-of-year summative assessments in ELA/literacy and mathematics, and a digital library of formative assessment tools and practices that support classroom instruction.

• Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers

  This page provides information about the Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers. The Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers is a searchable, interactive online collection of instructional and professional learning resources developed by educators for educators.

• Next Generation Accountability System

  Connecticut’s Next Generation Accountability System is a broad set of 12 indicators that help tell the story of how well a school is preparing its students for success in college, careers and life.

• National Blue Ribbon Schools

  Annually, the U.S. Department of Education identifies National Blue Ribbon Schools based on nominations from state education agencies.

• School Interoperability Framework (SIF)

  SIF allows districts to directedly transmit data from their student information system to some applications.

• Vendor Information

  The purpose of this page is to provide student information system (SIS) vendors with information on Performance Office Data collections.

• About the Collection: Noncertified Staff Collection

  CSDE uses the Noncertified Staff application to collect para-professional full-time equivalent (FTE) data in nine instructional and eleven non-instructional categories.

• About the Collection: Directory Manager

  DM is the official listing of all districts, schools and other educational facilities. DM is used to manage users and their roles for all Portal Applications.

• About the Collection: CT-SEDS Referral and Evaluation (previously Evaluation Timelines)

  Evaluation Timelines collects data that are used to monitor compliance to the federal timeline regarding initial evaluations and eligibility determination for special education and related services.

• About the Collection: ED165 - Connecticut School Data Report 

  The ED165: Connecticut School Data Report is used to collect a wide variety of data elements at the school-level for state and federal reporting.

• About the Collection: ED204

  The ED204: Title I Part D Neglected and Delinquent Evaluation Report is used to collect data on student participation and academic outcomes from the prior school year. Only districts that receive Title I Part D funds are required to complete this form.

• Special Education Data Collections Help Site

  This site is dedicated to helping you understand all the data elements and important processes within each of the data collections associated with special education data.

• About the Collection: Due Process Hearing Requests - Resolution Meetings

  This application, housed within SEDAC, is used to collect data regarding due process hearings and the results of each resolution meeting.

• About the Collection: Kindergarten Entrance Inventory (KEI)

  The Fall Kindergarten Entrance Inventory was designed to provide a statewide snapshot of the skills students demonstrate, based on teachers' observations, at the beginning of the kindergarten year.