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NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress Communications Toolkit

Whether you’re a board member or administrator, this Toolkit for Communicating About Adequate Yearly Progress gives you all the information you need to share this important part of the No Child Left Behind Act with parents, community and the news media.

 
Toolkit for Communicating About Adequate Yearly Progress (88kb Help with using pdf files) (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
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Toolkit Documents
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Tools will be updated, added or deleted to stay current with the evolving nature of the funding issue.
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PDF Format Icon Sample News Releases (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Use these models to craft your own message to focus on how your district is improving student learning, how to explain AYP and how it fits into NCLB.
PDF Format Icon Sample AYP Staff Letter Explaining AYP (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Model letter to send to school staff explaining Adequate Yearly Progress; adapt information to your school(s) and send it before AYP is announced each year or as soon as possible after AYP is announced.
PDF Format Icon Sample AYP Parent Letter Explaining AYP Release (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Model letter to send to parents informing them about Adequate Yearly Progress rating of their child's school; adapt it to your situation and send it as soon as possible after AYP is announced.
PDF Format Icon Sample AYP Parent Letter Explaining Highly Qualified Staff (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Use this sample letter as a model to communicate with parents in Title 1 schools about the qualifications of your teachers. The law requires schools to notify parents in Title 1 schools if their child's teacher doesn't meet the federal definition of "highly qualified staff" within four weeks of when the teacher begins teaching your child.
PDF Format Icon Sample AYP Parent Letters Explaining Needed Improvement Under AYP (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Get ideas from this letter if you must sent letters to parents with students in schools in the second or third year of needing improvement under AYP.
PDF Format Icon Sample Article for School Publications (Updated Aug 28, 2007)
Use this model to explain, in common English, what NCLB and AYP mean and how they affect your school. Has AYP Sections for "Title 1 schools only" and "Non-Title 1 schools."

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