LEA Look Forward for May 8, 2026

View the LEA Look Forward for May 8, 2026.

Important Announcements

• New: 2025-26 Health Education, Physical Education, and Physical Activity Action Plan Requirement
• New: DC Health and OSSE Undesignated Emergency Medications Program Technical Assistance Call, May 28
• New: OSSE Releases 2026-27 School Year Calendar Compliance Review Portal. All Calendar Submissions Due June 23
• Child Care Provider Day (Reminder)
• DC 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Report (Reminder)

Professional Development, Leadership Opportunities & Events

• New: Multilingual Learner Educators, Call for Presenters
• New: Structured Literacy in Action, July 13 and 15
• New: Empowering Every Voice: Turning DC Survey About Your School (DC SAYS) into Action
• New: DC Seal of Biliteracy LEA Toolkit
• Learn24 Network's 2026 Out-of-School Time Conference, Call for Proposals (Reminder)
• Foundations of Teaching Multilingual Learners (Reminder)
• Extended School Year Training and Process Updates (Reminder)
• Interpreting and Applying WIDA ACCESS Score Reports (Reminder)
• Vocabulary Instruction for Multilingual Learners (Reminder)
• Instructional Leadership Summit, June 4 (Reminder)

Grants & Funding

• New: FY26 ESEA Final Allocations and FY25 Carryover Funds Now Available in EGMS
• New: ConApp & IDEA Phase I Applications Now Open - Due June 15
• FY26 SOAR Formula Post-Award Webinar Recording and Slide Deck Now Available (Reminder)
• Feedback Requested on Technical Assistance Topics for Titles I-IV, Part A Grants (Reminder)
• FY26 IDEA Final Allocations and FY25 Carryover Funds Now Available in EGMS (Reminder)
• Federal Grant Opportunity - Innovative Approaches to Literacy (Reminder)
• FY27 McKinney-Vento (MKV) Homeless Assistance Program Grant Competition (Reminder)

Upcoming Dates & Deadlines