2024-2025 Pupil Calendar Updated: 5/17
What thoughts do you have about the four transformations related to future diploma requirements (adopt the portrait of a graduate, redefine credits, sunset diploma assessment requirements, move to one diploma)?
NYSED’s Expanded Math Access Program (EMAP) initiative to support math fluency and the love of math across the state provides students in grades K-5 with free access to the First in Math Program (online, standards-based math games and activities). This additional practice supports students in meeting grade-level math fluency expectations and is accessible at school and at home. Use of the free math resources is optional and flexible. Schools may use these for enrichment/extension, fun summer learning, and/or to supplement/complement current work being done in the classroom.
As part of EMAP, a Statewide Elementary Mathematics Tournament is held annually for students in grades 1-5, consisting of 10 virtual Regional Contests (Qualifying Round) and an in-person Statewide Championship Event. Approximately 150 students from the 2024 Regional Contest Winning Schools were brought together to compete at this year’s Statewide Event which was held on Saturday, June 1, 2024, at the SUNY Albany Campus Center. Congratulations to all the 2024 Statewide Event winners!
NYSED is thrilled to announce that starting in June 2024, EMAP is being expanded to include students in grades 6-8. All New York State schools, including (but not limited to) public, BOCES, charter, and religious and independent schools, can now sign up their students in grades 6-8 for FREE First in Math licenses by completing an online request form. Students in grades 6-8 will also be eligible to participate in the 2025 Statewide Mathematics Tournament.
Virtual Learning
NYSED supports the use of virtual and blended learning to provide access to high-quality, culturally and linguistically responsive instructional and learning opportunities and to expand and personalize educational programmatic offerings to meet student needs. To codify this support, the Board of Regents approved changes to amendments to Commissioner’s Regulations related to virtual and blended instruction. While virtual learning has been a part of the educational landscape in New York for decades, schools, districts, and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) have previously only been able to offer such learning for courses that result in course credit. The regulations now allow virtual learning across the grade levels, ensuring that schools can continue to expand learning opportunities for students in the digital age. NYSED has published Frequently Asked Questions about virtual learning regulations on our website.
High School Student Governments
Effective September 1, 2024, every school district serving high school students in grades 9-12 without a district-wide or school building peer-selected student government is required to establish at least one student government organization within such district or school building.
For more information, please refer to thememo and Frequently Asked Questionsabout the new law.
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