K-12 Education

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• Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled

  Connecticut law requires LEAs to offer an “alternative educational opportunity” to students who have been expelled in certain circumstances and further provides that LEAs may offer such an opportunity to any expelled student.

• Connecticut Labor and Working Class History

  Lesson plans, resources, and materials for teachers about the history of labor and business in Connecticut.

• Statewide K-12 Sexual Assault & Abuse Prevention & Awareness Program Guidelines

  These guidelines provide an overview of sexual violence and recommendations for implementing sexual assault and abuse awareness and prevention programs as required by state law.

• Field Trips: Guidance for School Nurses

  These guidelines provide school nurses and school districts with information, resources, and guidance needed to develop safe plans for the health care needs all students on field trips. School nurses should use these guidelines in conjunction with their individual school district policies and procedures.

• Guidelines for Managing Life-threatening Food Allergies in Connecticut Schools

  These guidelines assist Connecticut schools in managing the health and safety needs of children with life-threatening allergic conditions. Management of the health and safety needs of students with glycogen storage disease (GSD) is also included.

• Guidelines for Adapted Physical Education

  The purpose of these guidelines is to clarify and to underscore the importance of physical education—in the context of meaningful physical participation within a community of peers—for students with disabilities in a school environment.

• Education Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Lead Poisoning in Children

  These guidelines address lead prevention; early identification of students exposed and affected by lead; and educational programming in response to lead exposure in order to mitigate existing or potential deficits.

• Concussion Education Plan and Guidelines for Connecticut Schools

  These guidelines provide accurate information, resources, and guidance for school districts to implement concussion education plans.

• Coaching and Self-Reflection Tool for Competency in Teaching English Learners

  Aligned to Connecticut’s CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching, this tool is for professional development and growth as well as guiding observations and discussions.

• Promising Practices to Reduce Chronic Absence

• Guidelines for Blood Glucose Self-monitoring in Connecticut Schools

  Recommendations for developing policies that help students with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels in school settings.

• Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide

  Lesson ideas and resources to help teach the Holocaust and genocide in in the secondary grades.

• Teaching Native American Studies

  We hope these materials assist you in the teaching of Native American studies. The resources that are included were provided by the five state-recognized Eastern Woodland tribes.

• Connecticut Standards for Remote Learning Grades 9-12

  These standards are designed to assist local and regional boards of education in the development of their local remote learning programs.

• Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success

  Pursuant to Public Act No. 21-2 sec. 402 (8c), The Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success shall be under the direction of a director who shall consult with the Reading Leadership Implementation Council.