Symra-Dee Brown-Gumbs

This document outlines the Virgin Islands Department of Education State Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education's four key goals for the current school year, centered on 'igniting innovation and innovating excellence'. The goals include providing artificial intelligence training for educators to facilitate universal and personalized learning, empowering student voices to promote CTAE program awareness and growth through competitions and commercials, engaging employers via an 'adopt a CTE program' campaign to develop a skilled workforce, and redefining night school and adult education programs with integrated education and training models to enhance employability.

This comprehensive progress report for Ulla F. Muller Elementary School outlines a commitment to fostering high-quality learning and building a foundation for lifelong learners. It focuses on ensuring quality schools through real-world curriculum, technology integration, and best practices. Key objectives include achieving specific proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Mathematics by June 2026 for both Smarter Balanced and iReady assessments, aiming for student achievement, excellence, and future success, and preparing productive citizens for a global society.

The Virgin Islands Department of Education outlines its mission to provide a safe, nurturing environment with high-quality instruction and support, ensuring all students succeed in college and careers as global citizens. The vision empowers all students to achieve their fullest potential, supported by core values including family engagement, adaptability, integrity, and teamwork. Strategic goals are student-focused, aiming for social, emotional, and academic preparedness from kindergarten, annual growth in core subjects, and graduation with technology, career, and personal competencies. Organizationally, the department seeks to model effective processes for systemic performance improvement.

The meeting, led by Francisco Lopez, the NPD Team Lead, addressed program updates for the 2017 and 2021 cohorts regarding grant journeys, including closeout processes for the 2017 cohort. Key discussion points included the NPD vision, mission, and goals, emphasizing their role in advancing educational excellence and equity for ELs, and informing Department of Education leadership. The session provided an overview of the NPD program, grant funding ($50 million annually for up to five years), and performance management, which includes two-tiered monitoring systems utilizing G5 and KMS. Specific focus was given to performance metrics, highlighting an 85% response rate on the grantee satisfaction survey, which surpassed the department average of 59%. Topics also covered KMS updates, addressing issues like incomplete gap/target documentation, expired IRB agreements, indirect cost rate agreements (capped at 8% for training grants), carryover miscalculations relative to the August 31st fiscal year-end, and the importance of current contact information. Furthermore, the reporting timeline for the 2021 cohort was adjusted, moving the first reporting due date from December 31st to January 15th.

This Administrator Supplement to the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework Implementation Guide focuses on programmatic aspects of standards implementation. It outlines four key focus areas for systemic ELD standards implementation: professional learning, collaboration for content and language integration, curriculum and instruction, and data and assessment. The guide aims to provide strategic direction, coherence, and excellence in the education of multilingual learners.