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Fiscal Year 2009 Connecting Activities Reporting Schedule

Fiscal Year 2009 Connecting Activities Reporting Requirements

Connecting Activities Quarterly Reports should include:

1. The Narrative (not more than ten pages) to address:

   • Work-based learning experiences not accounted for in the Student/Employer Work and Learning Performance Report (WBL Levels A, B, C) i.e., job shadows, field trips, rotations, worksite supervisor trainings, teacher externships, etc.

   • A description of how your Connecting Activities and school-to-career professional development plans have been integrated and support each other.

   • A Connecting Activities anecdotal "highlight" for the quarter.

   • Challenges you have overcome and challenges you continue to face this quarter.

2. The Student/Employer Work and Learning Performance Report generated through the STC Database.

3. The Fiscal Reporting Form

Annual Reporting on the Attainment of a Competency Determination:

In FY06, a new report was added to the Reports Menu in the STC database called Connecting Activities Participants by MCAS Level 1 and Attainment of CD. This report selects students who scored in MCAS Level 1 (Warning/Failing) and provides a count of how many of those students have retest information in the database, and, if so, how many have subsequently attained a Competency Determination (CD).

In FY09, regions will be required to provide this report at the end of the fiscal year, due July 15, 2009, with the fourth quarter/final report. During FY09, please collect information on MCAS retests for students who scored in MCAS Level 1 (Warning/Failing) and enter this information into the database on the Placement Form in the MCAS scores worksheet at the bottom of the screen. This can be accomplished by entering:

• Subsequent scores
• OR subsequent performance level if scores aren't readily available
• OR - if the student graduates with a competency determination - you can simply enter that they passed the MCAS.

*For legislative purposes, the grant period for this cycle of Connecting Activities funds is July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Numbers will be calculated numbers based on all work-based learning outcomes during this period.