K-12 Education

Page 5 of 15

• Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled

  Connecticut law requires LEAs to offer an “alternative educational opportunity” to students who have been expelled in certain circumstances and further provides that LEAs may offer such an opportunity to any expelled student.

• Education Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Lead Poisoning in Children

  These guidelines address lead prevention; early identification of students exposed and affected by lead; and educational programming in response to lead exposure in order to mitigate existing or potential deficits.

• Clinical Procedure Guidelines for Connecticut School Nurses

  These guidelines are intended to help school nurses develop the procedural aspects of individual health care plans for students with special health care needs and in providing task-specific training for other school personnel, when indicated.

• Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide

  Lesson ideas and resources to help teach the Holocaust and genocide in in the secondary grades.

• Concussion Education Plan and Guidelines for Connecticut Schools

  These guidelines provide accurate information, resources, and guidance for school districts to implement concussion education plans.

• Field Trips: Guidance for School Nurses

  These guidelines provide school nurses and school districts with information, resources, and guidance needed to develop safe plans for the health care needs all students on field trips. School nurses should use these guidelines in conjunction with their individual school district policies and procedures.

• Guidelines for Adapted Physical Education

  The purpose of these guidelines is to clarify and to underscore the importance of physical education—in the context of meaningful physical participation within a community of peers—for students with disabilities in a school environment.

• Guidelines for Managing Life-threatening Food Allergies in Connecticut Schools

  These guidelines assist Connecticut schools in managing the health and safety needs of children with life-threatening allergic conditions. Management of the health and safety needs of students with glycogen storage disease (GSD) is also included.

• Statewide K-12 Sexual Assault & Abuse Prevention & Awareness Program Guidelines

  These guidelines provide an overview of sexual violence and recommendations for implementing sexual assault and abuse awareness and prevention programs as required by state law.

• Coaching and Self-Reflection Tool for Competency in Teaching English Learners

  Aligned to Connecticut’s CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching, this tool is for professional development and growth as well as guiding observations and discussions.

• Promising Practices to Reduce Chronic Absence

• Teaching Native American Studies

  We hope these materials assist you in the teaching of Native American studies. The resources that are included were provided by the five state-recognized Eastern Woodland tribes.

• Connecticut Labor and Working Class History

  Lesson plans, resources, and materials for teachers about the history of labor and business in Connecticut.

• Reducing Chronic Absence in Connecticut's Schools

  School district administrators can use this framework to plan and implement preventions and interventions that will help reduce chronic absence in prekindergarten through Grade 12.

• Parents Guide to Bullying and Harassment in Connecticut

  Questions and answers about bullying in Connecticut schools