Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules
Chapter 33 - WYOMING BRIDGES SUMMER SCHOOL AND EXTENDED DAY GRANT PROGRAM
Section 33-7 - Summer School and Extended Day Program Requirements
Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 33-7
Current through September 21, 2024
(a) Programs made available to students for summer school and extended day instruction under this authority shall meet the following requirements:
(i) At a minimum, remediation, intervention,
and credit recovery shall be made available in mathematics and reading/language
arts, dependent upon the student's need as identified in the student's
individual learning plan;
(ii)
Intervention strategies used by instructors shall be challenging, relevant,
match the student's needs and learning style, engage the learner, and be
dynamic, changing as a student responds to a specific strategy.
(iii) Remedial instruction shall be tailored
to the individual needs of each student with the goal of mastering identified
deficiencies to improve the knowledge, competency, and skill of the student.
Remedial instruction focuses on areas specifically targeted for each student,
incorporating various and multiple effective education strategies and is
diagnostic, prescriptive, and intensive.
(iv) To the extent practical and reasonable,
class size shall be limited to ten (10) students in elementary and to fifteen
(15) students in junior high/middle and high school classes;
(v) Student individual learning plans must be
developed, implemented, and evaluated for each student. The learning plan shall
be prepared by the certified teacher or team referring the student to summer
school;
(vi) Summer school teachers
and persons providing extended day instruction shall receive seven (7) clock
hours of training yearly in research-based instructional strategies that focus
on individualized instructional approaches for teaching at-risk
students;
(vii) The school
principal, district superintendent, or designee with administrative
certification or any other professional supervising summer school or extended
day programs shall receive training yearly in research-based instructional
strategies that focus on individualized instructional approaches for at-risk
students;
(viii) To assure
effectiveness of teaching and program quality, instruction delivered shall be
monitored regularly by a district superintendent, school principal, or designee
with administrative certification trained in research-based instructional
strategies that focus on individualized instructional approaches for at-risk
students;
(b) Summer school programs must additionally assure:
(i)
Teachers providing summer school instruction under this authority shall meet
the certification standards set forth under the rules and regulations of the
Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board as created by W.S.§
21-2-801;
(ii) Delivery of a minimum of sixty (60)
instructional hours over a period of at least fifteen (15) school days to each
elementary and middle or junior high school student. These total hours may or
may not include a combination of instruction in mathematics and
reading/language arts, dependent upon the student's need as identified in their
individual learning plan;
(A), Instruction to
students in grades K-8 shall be direct, hands-on instruction delivered by
appropriately certified teachers rather than instruction delivered through
computer-based learning programs not associated with a distant certified
teacher. This requirement is not meant to preclude the use of computers or
computer programs to aid or supplement instruction.
(iii) Availability of a minimum of sixty (60)
instructional hours per subject to each high school student unless the student
can demonstrate proficiency prior to concluding the full sixty (6G) hours of
instruction.
(A) High school students
utilizing computer-based education learning programs not associated with a
distant certified teacher to recover credits. in failed subjects must do so in
an environment supervised and attended by a certified teacher.
(c) Extended day programs must additionally assure;
(i) The
availability of an adequate number of instructional hours to assure the student
has met the goals identified in their individual learning plan, can demonstrate
proficiency, or their needs are addressed by another intervention.
(ii) Students utilizing computer-based
educational learning programs to supplement instruction being received in the
classroom shall do so in an environment supervised and attended by a person
with at least the minimum credentials of an instructional paraprofessipnal as
defined in these rules, who is under the direction of the extended day teacher
of record.
(d) Upon completion of summer school and extended day programs, each district shall report to the Department statistical, expenditure, programmatic evaluation, and student achievement data, and provide evidence of appropriate staff development as required by the Department in guidelines.
(e) As of the FY11 grant cycle (May 1, 2010), districts applying for grant funds under this authority must provide assurances to the Department of their ability to participate in statewide data analysis of student academic growth as measured by Northwest Education Association's Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP). Deadlines and instructions for submittal of student assessment data will be set forth by the Department in guidelines and will require;
(i) Spring and
fall raw Rausch Unit (RIT) score data in reading and math from students the
spring of second grade through the fall of ninth grade inclusive;
(A) Fall and spring assessment of students
must be accomplished using MAP'S Survey with Goals; -
(ii) Student WISER identification
numbers;
(iii) Identification of
students who completed summer school in which subjects for the data year
requested.
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