Connecticut State Department of Education

K-12 Education

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  • CACFP Emergency Shelters

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture's CACFP in emergency shelters provides cash assistance for nutritious meals and snacks served to resident infants and children ages 18 and younger.

  • Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide

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

  • School Breakfast Program (SBP)

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture's SBP provides nutritious breakfasts to students in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions.

  • 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.

  • Fiscal Services

    Bureau of Fiscal Services Home page

  • Communication - Mastery-Based Learning

    A variety of communications toolkits are available to assist schools and school districts in explaining the changes necessary to implement Mastery-Based Learning.

  • Student Success Plan

    The Student Success Plan (SSP) is an individualized student driven plan that will be developed to address every student’s needs and interests to help every student stay connected in school and to achieve postsecondary educational and career goals.

  • Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment 

    This page provides information on The Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment that is administered to students in Grades 4, 6, 8 and in high school. This includes information on the Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment Individual Student Collection, which collects results of the assessment at the student level.

  • Physical Education

    Curriculum and instruction, provided in a safe, supportive environment, offer meaningful, challenging learning for all students, and result in lifetime learning outcomes of skills, literacy, and ability to understand concepts and develop plans for lifetime physical activity and wellness.

  • Youth Service Bureaus

    Local communities began to develop youth service bureaus in the 1960's as a response to a growing number of issues affecting youth. The role of Youth Service Bureaus (YSBs) has been broadened to include both advocacy and coordination of a comprehensive service delivery system for youth.

  • Performance Matters Forum 2019

    The Performance Matters Forum is a half-day conference that offers sessions highlighting best practices focused in five topic areas.

  • Smarter Balanced Assessment

    This pages contains resources on the Smarter Balanced assessments.

  • Data Collection Forms and Instructions

    This section has forms and instructions pertaining to online data collection applications pertaining to the Bureau of Fiscal Services.

  • Application Information - CSDE Data Collections and Deadlines

    This site provides in-depth information about each collection managed by the Performance Office of the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE).

  • Research Library

    The CSDE is committed to continuously learning from data and experience to implement evidence-based educational policies and practices that result in improved student outcomes.