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The National Coalition for Food-Safe Schools (NCFSS) is an alliance of
representatives from national organizations, associations, and state and
government agencies that are interested or active involved in reducing
foodborne illness in the U. The Suite offers this affordable, analytic
capacity to K-12 education districts of any size. This enables administrators to disaggregate
the growth data at any level.

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said, "The Action Guide is a comprehensive yet easy to use road map that
will guide your team down the path of becoming a safer, healthier place for
your students.
Educators can choose to view more specific details to better understand
student achievement trends and to plan instruction for each student's unique
needs.
At the central office administrative level, the Suite provides information
through NWEA's Leaders' Edge tool.

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The
Food-Safe Schools Action Guide , released by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) and its partners in the National Coalition for
Food-Safe Schools (NCFSS), can help schools identify gaps in food safety
and develop an action plan for becoming food-safe.

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According to Elizabeth Bugden of Kids First of Rhode Island, the Food-Safe
Schools Action Guide is a "comprehensive and well-organized tool.

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Data aggregated through the Dynamic
Reporting Suite are from NWEA's unique Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)
assessment system that includes academic growth information and growth norms,
all related to how a child is doing on a continuum of learning.
The Suite allows users to easily print customized reports and graphs that
can include student performance data relative to growth, norms and state
proficiency .

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formats, including a hardcopy Action Guide toolkit. Please visit www.

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Schools have an excellent food safety record, and by using a coordinated
team approach can build on that record to help ensure a food-safe school
environment and reduce foodborne illness outbreaks. All of the Action Guide
toolkit materials -- plus a wealth of additional information and resources
to help staff implement specific parts of the Action Guide's
recommendations -- are available for free download at
www.The Dynamic Reporting Suite, a business intelligence solution , helps educators
understand individual student needs, and provides a big-picture look at
classroom, district data. They
can also see which students are on track to be proficient in reading, math, or
language arts, and can identify how education practices are affecting student
growth.

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A new tool in this effort is now available at no cost to schools, and those
working with schools, to help them be food-safe. The reports' visual usability means educators take only a fraction of
the time they had been taking to quickly understand significant amounts of
data in the reports.

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a voluntary and informal working group that focuses specifically on food
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With this insight, administrators can evaluate
the effectiveness of school programs and policies, and how best to allocate
resources. Additional information is
available at http://www.

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Preventing foodborne illness and preparing a food-safe school environment
for the millions of young people who attend school and consume millions of
meals each day is a critical matter of school safety and preparedness. schools through information sharing, networking, and
strategic planning of activities.

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learn more. Because the Suite works
through NWEA's interface, districts can afford to access the robust student
data and reports through the Internet.org .

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, Northwest Evaluation Association
(NWEA) is introducing this week the Dynamic Reporting Suite, a major
breakthrough in providing data in an easy-to-understand online format. Additionally, teachers can get a snapshot of the academic diversity
in their classroom, and spotlight areas in which students need support . Fees vary depending on district size.

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Key to the program is NWEA's emphasis on high-quality data targeted at
increasing student growth and proficiency."
For example, teachers can immediately understand their students' progress
toward their individual growth targets, and toward meeting state proficiency
standards.
Administrators also can compare and analyze district, school and
individual growth targets, spot district or school-level patterns and trends,
and quickly "drill down" through groups to pinpoint student data. Additionally, its Growth Research Database, the most
extensive collection of student growth data in the country, provides a rich
opportunity for the study of academic achievement.

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The Food-Safe Schools
Action Guide premiered today in Arlington, Virginia in conjunction with the
FNS National Nutrition Education Conference 2, and was developed
specifically to help schools become food-safe through a team approach.
The Suite is available for purchase to all education organizations using
NWEA's MAP system.

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org. "We've accomplished a leap forward in providing
information in a graphically elegant manner that will make it a far simpler
task to put it to use in the classroom and at the individual student level. The platform provides superior analytics, user
scalability, and user-friendly reporting features.

About Northwest Evaluation Association
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) is a national non-profit
organization dedicated to helping all children learn.

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Bugden. by improving food safety in schools.
Designed to simplify the analysis of assessment and curriculum data, the Suite
allows teachers, principals and administrators to spotlight learning areas
that deserve attention without searching through stacks of reports or
analyzing overwhelming numbers.

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Keeping the nation's youth healthy and safe
is everyone's business! A healthy school environment includes safe food.

PORTLAND, Ore. "It will be an asset to any K-12 setting in which educators are
interested in using technology to improve student outcomes.
For principals and building-level administrators, the Suite focuses
attention on areas of possible concern by highlighting the proportion of
students who are projected to meet growth targets and state proficiency
standards .

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The Food-Safe Schools Action Guide includes critical recommendations on
what key school staff and community members can do to prevent foodborne
illness. The Action Guide includes valuable resources that promote food
safety for all foods available in schools, including classroom parties ,
fundraisers and extra curricular activities. Recognizing that school staff
often has little discretionary time to devote to searching for new
resources and materials, the Food-Safe Schools Action Guide also contains
useful tips and resources to help them prioritize recommendations and take
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To use the Suite, teachers and administrators merely log onto the Dynamic
Reporting Suite on NWEA's Web site. Teachers can
share the lists with parents for at-home reading emphasis and to guide summer
reading.

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information about student learning in a highly readable visual format.

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"user-friendly, valuable resources that will help schools take the steps
they need to be food-safe," said Ms. NWEA provides research-
based educational growth measures, professional training and consulting
services to improve teaching and learning.

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"These reports offer a major change in the way school districts receive
data and then put that data to work," says Mike Patterson, vice president of
technology at NWEA.
"We made the Dynamic Reporting Suite a cost-effective tool for any
district size in keeping with our mission to help all students learn ," says
Patterson.
The Suite also makes it simple for teachers to create customized reading
lists for students, targeting both reading ability and interests. Partnering with school districts ,
states and other education organizations, NWEA delivers computerized
assessment services to more than 1,800 education agencies and three million
students nationwide.