[Okepas] UPDATE TO State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition Program 2010

Tue Apr 6 13:50:45 CDT 2010

Much has changed since my note to you on March 9.  Due to some technical
issues related to the total EPAS program, EPAS Scholars will be handled
in a different way than we had planned.  This note will explain the
process as we NOW expect it to unfold.

The EPAS Scholars mailing will not be sent out from ACT.  Our office
will be handling it.  

We will email the EPAS Scholar certificates in pdf to "EPAS coordinator"
as given when you ordered the EXPLORE and PLAN tests last summer/fall.
The names and content area will already be merged into pdf form and
ready to be printed.   This will be done for EVERY EPAS school whether
or not you have emailed us.  

We hope to get these out within the next 3 weeks.  Please email us at
epas at osrhe.edu <mailto:epas at oshr.edu>  ONLY If you need the certificates
BEFORE April 30, 2010.  Please do not email me as it will delay your
request if I am out of my office.

If you do not have adobe you can get a free version at
http://get.adobe.com/reader/.  
If the 2009-2010 contact person is no longer at the school or district
please provide new contact information to epas at osrhe.edu
<mailto:epas at oshr.edu> .    

We appreciate your flexibility in adapting to our change in the EPAS
Scholars program.  Our goal is to serve students and schools and to be
good stewards of taxpayer dollars and natural resources.

Thanks for your support and leadership,
Cindy

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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:19 PM
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Subject: [Okepas] State Regents' Oklahoma EPAS Scholars Recognition
Program2010

Oklahoma Colleagues:

Oklahoma EPAS Scholars 2010, now in its tenth year, is a State Regents'
program aimed at recognizing students for their collegiate preparedness
as early as the eighth grade.  We encourage you to consider the delivery
of these certificates at a special event in your school-either by giving
them as part of your awards ceremonies this spring, or through other
special venues.  

The mailing should be arriving by the end of March from ACT.  We have
asked ACT to address the mailing to the person who was listed as the
EPAS Contact for this year's EXPLORE and PLAN assessment materials.

*        PLEASE NOTE:  We are not printing the certificates this year.
A black line master will be enclosed in this mailing for your use.  If
you would prefer to have the electronic version of the certificate along
with the electronic file of your roster and specific instructions for
doing a merge function just email us and ask for it: epas at osrhe.edu
<mailto:epas at oshr.edu> .  Please do not email me as it will delay your
request.

This year's Oklahoma EPAS Scholars' roster includes your students who
scored at or above the College Readiness Benchmark in any subject area
on the EXPLORE or PLAN test. These scores indicate whether students,
based on their performance on EXPLORE or PLAN are on target to be ready
for first-year college-level work when they graduate from high school.
The College Readiness Benchmarks for the subject areas are:

EXPLORE                         PLAN
                                                      English
13            15
                                            Mathematics
17            19
                                                    Reading
15            17
                                                     Science
20            21

Thank you for your support of students through EPAS and for your
leadership on your campus.   

Cindy

Cynthia Brown, Ed.D.
Director of Student Preparation
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
405-225-9156

"What if we had fail-safe schools that treated the failure of a single
child as equally tragic as a nuclear meltdown, chemical spill, or an
airplane crash?"
"Three Musts for Bolstering Student Achievement" by Vicki Urquhart in
Changing Schools, Summer 2008 (Vol. 58, p. 1-2)

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