COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

P.O. BOX 2120

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23218-2120

SUPTS. MEMO NO.17

January 26, 2007

INFORMATIONAL

TO:	Division Superintendents
FROM:	Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Superintendent of Public Instruction
SUBJECT:	Prevention Through Information (PTIVA) Data Use Training Workshops

In collaboration with the Center for School-Community Collaboration at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Department of Education, Office of Student Services, is pleased to announce a series of one-day regional workshops on the use of Discipline, Crime, and Violence (DCV) Data. These workshops are being offered as part of the Prevention Through Information (PTI-VA) Project. This is the third year of a three-year initiative, funded by a competitive grant from the U. S. Department of Education, designed to improve the capacity of Virginia schools to collect and use school crime and safety data for prevention planning. These workshops are designed for school safety teams and school division/community prevention planning teams.

PTI Data Use Workshops will focus on the use of discipline, crime, and violence data for school- and community-based prevention program management, including needs assessment, performance measurement, intervention selection, monitoring, and progress reporting to the public. The workshops will also focus on strategies for educating key stakeholders and the public about DCV data and engaging them in prevention efforts.

Also developed as a product of the PTI-VA initiative is an online tutorial on DCV data reporting that may be accessed at http://www.dcvreport.org/. School division personnel involved with the collection and reporting of discipline, crime, and violence data are encouraged to take advantage of this new resource. Workshop participants will be expected to have reviewed the online tutorial before attending workshops.

Data Use Workshops will be provided as follows:

DAY DATE (2007) SITE

Tuesday February 27 Longwood University

Farmville

Thursday March 1 Omni Hotel

Newport News

Tuesday March 6 Doubletree Hotel

Charlottesville

Thursday March 8 University of Mary

Washington

Fredericksburg

Tuesday March 13 Roslyn Conference Center

Richmond

Thursday March 15 Southwest Virginia

Higher Education Center

Abington

Tuesday March 20 First Mount Zion

Baptist Church

Dumfries

Tuesday March 27 Roanoke College

Roanoke

The workshops are being offered at no charge to participants. Any lodging and travel expenses will be the responsibility of the participant. Expenses may be paid from federal funding already available to the school division under the safe and drug-free schools program.

Pre-registration is required and space is limited to no more than 50 participants per workshop. Individuals may register online at: http://www.soe.vcu.edu/csc.

For additional information about the workshops, contact the Center for School Community Collaboration at 804-828-1482 or 1-800-762-6309 (toll-free). Other questions may be directed to Arlene Cundiff, safe and drug-free schools coordinator, at 804-225-2871 or Arlene.Cundiff@doe.virginia.gov.

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