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Michigan Department of Education
2009 Pupil Auditing Manual - This manual provides guidance to ISD auditors on pupil auditing standards. A final version issued March 2008.
Pupil Accounting Manual - This manual provides guidance on pupil membership requirements and count procedures. (Provided by the Office of State Aid and School Finance).
Educational Entity Master (EEM) - The EEM is a repository that contains numbers and basic contact information regarding educational systems in the state of Michigan.
School Report Cards - The Michigan Department of Education annually makes a determination of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for all public elementary, middle schools, and high schools in Michigan. AYP evaluates schools and school districts in the areas of academic achievement, participation in state assessment, graduation rate for high schools, and student attendance for elementary and middle schools.
State Board CEU Program Listing - Provides teachers throughout Michigan with up-to-the-minute detail about courses and sessions, costs, credits, and contact information relating to the sessions.
Supplemental Educational Services - Under No Child Left Behind, some students in schools that have been identified as "in need of improvement" are eligible for supplemental services. Supplemental services are tutoring, small group, or computer instruction in reading or math provided before or after school, on weekends, or during the summer.
Teacher Certification Verification - Search to verify status of Michigan Teacher Certification.
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State of Michigan Educational Technology Plan 2006
Educational technology as addressed in this plan is a powerful means of improving student
learning. All our educators should be knowledgeable about the ways in which student learning can benefit from educational technology.
1) Leadership - Michigan will provide leadership for educational technology in order to
expand and develop transformative learning environments that increase
student achievement.
2) Digital Citizenship - Every Michigan student will be proficient in technology and will demonstrate
the ethical use of technology as a digital citizen and lifelong learner.
3) Student Learning - Every Michigan student will have meaningful technology-enabled learning
opportunities based on research and best practice that include virtual
learning experiences.
4) Data Driven Decisions - Every Michigan educator will use data effectively for classroom decision
making and school improvement planning through an integrated local and
statewide decision support system.
5) Professional Learning - Every Michigan educator will have the technology competencies to enable
the transformation of teaching and learning to improve student
achievement.
6) Broadband Access - Every Michigan classroom will have broadband Internet access to enable
regular use of worldwide educational opportunities.
7) Shared Resources - Every Michigan educator and learner will have equitable and sustained
access, through statewide coordination and support, to resources necessary
to transform teaching and learning through educational technology.
8) Funding - Michigan will develop innovative methods of funding to transform and
sustain teaching and learning through educational technology and build
local, regional, and statewide capacity.
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MEL.orgAdministered by the Library of Michigan in partnership with Michigan's libraries of all types, the Michigan eLibrary (http://mel.org) will provide all Michigan residents with free access to online full-text articles, full-text books, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet; and provide an easy-to-use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other library materials for free from participating Michigan libraries.
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21things for the 21st Century Educator Based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). The purpose of this course is to provide ”Just in Time” training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement. Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU’s. To learn more about the session, look under the tab “The 21 Things”. We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity. |
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michigan.gov"Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice"
"If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you."
- 124 Live Web sites on Michigan.gov as of 1/01/2009
- 320 Online services and around 640 links to Search for a State License are listed on Michigan.gov.
- 124,740 Live content items in the CMA.
- 105,467 of the 124,740 live content items are shared in one or more places across the 128 sites for a total of 230,207 content items that are displayed on Michigan.gov.
- Over 240,000 Files: Documents, Spreadsheets, Images, PDF files, Flash Files, Multimedia Files
- 7,009 Navigational categories
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MORE - Michigan Online Resources for Educators
In October 2008, the Michigan Department of Education finalized a State Education partnership with Thinkfinity. Thinkfinity.org is the Verizon Foundation's free, comprehensive Web site containing more than 55,000 educational resources, including standards-based, grade-specific, K-12 lesson plans, student interactive tools and reference materials. Many of these resources are currently available on MORE, and ALL will be available through MORE by mid-July 2009!
Content is provided through a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 of the nation's leading educational organizations: the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Reading Association, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Center for Family Literacy, Council for Economic Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Geographic Society, ProLiteracy and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Thinkfinity.org also offers a free, robust professional-development program for teachers and trainers. For more information on this professional development, contact Karen Hairston at hairstonk@michigan.gov. |
