ND PK-12 Education Strategic Vision Framework
Our vision is that all students will graduate choice ready with the knowledge, skills, and disposition to be successful.
ESSA
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law on December 10, 2015. It reauthorizes the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which was previously NCLB.
Innovative Learning
Develop a new idea for your school to educate differently and targets one or more of the following: Student Educational Opportunities, Student Academic Success
Dashboard
The school dashboard Insights provides an opportunity for schools to showcase and highlight strengths in their building while providing transparency to the public.
SLDS
The Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) leverages stakeholders and partners of education to create a system which provides data to improve the outcomes of individuals provided service.
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Career Opportunity: Administrative Staff Officer
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Make a Difference! Join our team of dedicated professionals working together to improve educational opportunities for North Dakota children from pre-kindergarten to graduating career and college ready.
Career Opportunity: Account Budget Specialist
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Join the ND Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) team in carrying out our vision of helping to prepare our state's students to be career and college ready.
Lexile and Quantile Hub
Check out the new Lexile and Quantile Hub! Find new and enhanced tools that fit your needs.
Baesler: New School Information on ND Education Dashboard
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BISMARCK, N.D., Oct. 4, 2019 – State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler announced Friday that a new year’s worth of North Dakota school performance and accountability information has been integrated into the state’s “education dashboard” website.
Leadership Professional Development Opportunities
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NDDPI is pleased to announce funding support for existing and upcoming leadership professional development opportunities designed specifically to meet the individual needs of school leaders across the state.
Betsy Ames - 50 Years of Service
What does it take to be an incredible school board leader? Betsy Ames has served for 50 years!
ACT Seeking Participants
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ACT, Inc. and MetaMetrics, Inc. are conducting an important research study this fall to link the Lexile and Quantile Frameworks with the ACT Reading and Mathematics scales.
Choice Ready Update
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Choice Ready is an element in the North Dakota accountability system to measure whether our high schools prepare students to be ready for success upon graduation.
Two Graduates Receive Perfect ACT Score
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Millicent Schwartz, a Grand Forks Red River graduate, and Seth Benson, a graduate of West Fargo Sheyenne High, both earned perfect 36 composite scores on the ACT.
Big Moves in Computer Science Education
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More than 90% of parents want their child’s school to teach computer science, but only 35% of high schools, nationally, teach it. Considering the lack of student access along with the obvious benefits, concerted efforts have been made over the past couple of years to address the lack of computer science as a part of our North Dakota students’ educational experience.
2018-2019 School Accountability Reports Released Soon
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Under ESSA, state education departments are required to annually create an accountability report for every public school in the state. The school accountability reports outline how schools are performing on the accountability elements North Dakota selected within its ESSA plan.
Baesler Congratulates Students Who Aced the ACT Exam
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North Dakota School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler on Wednesday praised two North Dakota high school students who scored a perfect 36 on their ACT college entrance exams.
School Districts Responsibility for Students Costs During the 2019-20 School Year
The following amounts will be used for the 2019-2020 school year to determine the school district responsibility (cost cap) for the education of resident students.