Kansas public schools are achieving like never before.
Meanwhile, public education is facing a host of critical issues.
Kansas NEA, in its efforts to support quality public schools and to strengthen the teaching profession, is a resource to its members and the education community.
The following are links to a series of resources on the following topics:
- High Stakes Testing - What It Is Doing To Us
- What high stakes testing is doing to you and your school
- ESEA - Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Beginning in the 1960's, the federal government passed legislation to support public schools. As the act reached completion it has been renewed. No Child Left Behind is the catch phrase for the new law. Here's everything you need to know...
- KEYS: Another school improvement resource from KNEA
- Keys to Excellence in Your Schools!
KEYS is a way to diagnose organizational health, explore remedies and adopt new ways of dealing with the important decisions that can yield quality teaching and learning. NEA researchers learned that successful schools consistently displayed the same 42 characteristics. The factors for success range from things that require financial resources to those that don't.
- KNEA Quality Public Schools Cadre
- The Cadre consists of KNEA leaders and members with specialized training who are available to help with school improvement efforts and QPA accreditation.
- Looking for Math Teachers
- Math Project Looking for Math Teachers
- "The Puzzle of Autism" resource guide
- NEA is pleased to announce the availability of a new guide for educators entitled, "The Puzzle of Autism."
- Safe Schools -- Legally Speaking
- Historically, school safety and security has been the primary responsibility of the local school district. The Kansas Legislature's only venture into the area consisted of enactment of the Suspension and Expulsion Act...
- Safe Schools - Prevention Works
- Safe schools are good learning environments. Here are local, state and national resources plus what's happening locally.
- Safe Schools - Mailbag
- What makes your school safe? Members share local activities and programs. Share what makes YOUR school safe.
- QPA Regulations -- What's Required
- A side-by-side comparison of the new and old Quality Performance Accreditation regulations.
- IDEA Regulations
- These are the draft regulations currently in the review process.
- Student Assessment/QPA
- KNEA helps conditionally accredited schools! Schools declared conditionally accredited by the Kansas State Board of Education can apply to KNEA for help.
- Read Across America -- KNEA's successful literacy campaign
- Every year KNEA encourages adults to pick up a book and read with a child on Dr. Seuss' birthday!
- KNEA Standards for Quality Public Schools (QPS)
- KNEA sets high standards for Quality Public Schools
- Online IEP Tool Available
- NEA launched an online IEP (Individual Education Plan) toolkit which may be very helpful in efforts to reduce paperwork.
- School and Community Partnerships/Community Conversations
- School community partnerships have been identified as one major factor influencing school improvement. Learn more from the resources provided here.
- Test Preparation
- A compilation of Internet resources (lesson plans, practice material, instructional videos, etc.) for K-12 test preparation.
- Issues in Accountability
- KNEA's take on accountability emphasizes the role of assessment in school improvement rather than branding schools with the highest level of need and the greatest educational challenges as "failing".
- Paraprofessionals and "Highly Qualified" requirements
- The National Education Association convinced the U.S. Department of Education to extend the deadline for paraprofessionals to meet the highly qualified requirements of the so-called No Child Left Behind act.
- Navigating the Federal Education Law: Information is Power
- The majority of the federally mandated reforms are being phased in over the next several school years, but there is one aspect of the law that takes hold now - school report cards.
- ERIC Clearinghouses
- Although the ERIC clearinghouses are now closed, most have moved their electronic archives to the new Web sites listed here.
- Understanding Special Education - IDEA
- Useful, User-Friendly Web Resources
- Resources for Working with Diverse Learners
- This list of websites contain instructional strategies that are proven effective for meeting student learning needs.
- Priority Schools
- Politicians and the Media began referring to schools in which student
learning was lagging as Low Performing Schools. The
NEA has begun to turn that label around, though, by referring to
these as High Priority Schools. We believe that, if
student learning and success is low, the solution is to devote additional
resources and provide assistance to students, school personnel,
and the community to turn the tide and raise student achievement.
- What can a local association do to promote safe schools?
- Local Education Associations can facilitate safe schools by implementing
the equation, Safe Schools = Safe Communities + Safe Families. Here
are some suggestions.
- Kansas Education Resource Center (KERC)
- KERC has been developed by KSDE to assist educators in knowing, understanding,
and using the Kansas curriculum standards, especially as they align with the
Kansas state assessments. The website provides free, quality lesson plans and
resources aligned to the state standards, with new content continually reviewed
for inclusion on the site.
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