Projects in the state of Georgia
College and Career Pathways
SECC will provide technical expertise for the Georgia Department of Education's development and implementation of career pathways for 17 career clusters. The pathways will include a career awareness program for elementary school students, a career explorations program for middle school students, and career clusters for high school students.
College and Career Ready – Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Instructional Support Videos
The Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) has collaborated with the Center on Instruction Content Center and the states in SECC's region to design English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) videos to support states, schools, and teachers with the implementation of the ELA CCSS. Due to a reorganization of the content centers, collaboration efforts are at present only with the states in SECC's region. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on providing specific examples and illustrations to address the standard.
College- and Career-Ready State Standards Resource Review
All five states in the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) region have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as a vehicle for preparing college- and career-ready students. To assist these states with their implementation of the CCSS, program associates from the SECC do an exhaustive review of the CCSS resources in order to provide the best CCSS resources to the states in the SECC region. These resources are updated twice annually to provide SECC states with guidance in implementing the CCSS.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Instructional Support Videos
The Common Core State Standards Mathematics (CCSSM) videos are designed to support states, schools, and teachers in the implementation of the CCSS for mathematics. The videos were created in collaboration with the states in the Southeast Comprehensive Center region based on their needs for professional development support for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on specific standards and includes examples and illustrations geared to enhancing understanding.
Cross-State Community of Practice (CoP)
SECC staff will initiate an interstate community of practice that focused on sharing knowledge and expertise between state education agencies. The CoP will provide a forum for SEA representatives and stakeholders to interact and collaborate with national experts and staff from other SEAs.
Ensuring School Readiness Community of Practice
SECC will establish a regional community of practice (CoP) focused on ensuring school readiness and success of preschool-age children in the five states in its region. This CoP will provide a forum in which SEA representatives can interact and collaborate with national experts and staffs from other SEAs to learn about research-based and emerging promising practices in the area of school readiness, analyze their state's use of resources to address this topic, and develop strategies for strengthening connections between services provided through funding sources and K–12 standards and expectations in the state.
GA Strategic Planning and Performance Management
SECC will assist GaDOE in the development of an annual strategic planning process, by reexamining its mission, goals, strategies, and organizational structures. The SECC in collaboration with the Building State Capacity and Productivity (BSCP) Center will also aid GaDOE in improving the function of the agency by focusing on clear, measurable, and well-communicated goals and managing their performance at all levels to attain those goals.
Promoting Equitable Access at the State and Local Levels Regional Institute
Each year, the SECC provides a regional institute in an identified priority area for SEAs. The SECC will support the attendance of a team from each state for the institute. Additional follow up will take place after the institute to aid statewide implementation efforts.
Strengthen SEA’s Support of Districts and Schools
SECC will serve as a collaborating partner in planning for professional learning opportunities for school improvement staff and school improvement specialists to meet the needs of priority, focus, and alert schools. SECC will support implementation of the Indistar data management system to enable continuous, targeted assistance to schools and districts and the IndiSEA data management system to provide coordination of various departments’ roles in their support for Georgia’s districts.
Support for Implementing Georgia’s Common Core Performance Standards
The SECC will work with Georgia to strengthen their plans for implementing the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards by ensuring that they are
- identifying and providing to districts and schools high-quality resources that are supported by research-based and emerging promising practices,
- collecting feedback from districts, schools, and teachers to determine the quality, usefulness and relevance of the resources and supports they are providing, and
- adjusting and refining their implementation plans and resources to address identified needs or concerns.
Support for Students with Disabilities
SECC will support the Division of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment by providing support and resources to help meet the needs of districts in implementing the Special Education Supports and Services’ State Systemic Improvement Plan, developing a statewide literacy plan, and providing technical assistance on gathering and analyzing stakeholder feedback on services provided by GaDOE.
Teacher and Leader Effectiveness
SECC staff will work with the Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Division to provide nonbiased and useful data from participants across the state to inform advisory groups’ recommendations on the implementation of TKES and LKES for recommended adjustments to the process and resources and consultation on evaluation issues from research and best practices.
