Good news from Matriculate - we still have a few spots left in our Class of 2025 for our free virtual college advising program – we accept students on a first-come, first-served basis until August 31, 2024. We kindly ask that you share this deadline reminder with your community's students, families, and educators!

Assuring that school districts are equipped to deal with the multiple, ever-changing, challenges involved in protecting data privacy, while also following legal requirements and community expectations is a high priority for CoSN. In order to ensure that the CoSN resources are current when it comes to assuring data privacy, CoSN is inviting school leaders to participate in the recently released CoSN Student Data Privacy: Understanding the National Landscape Survey.

Survey participants do not need to identify themselves nor their school districts when completing the survey. You are invited to access the Data Privacy Survey and share your insights to shape future tools and resources. Take the Survey Here.

The CoSN Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) Seal program is a proven way for school system leaders to build effective privacy policies and programs in an atmosphere of trust and transparency. There are five main categories included when earning the Trusted Learning Environment Seal:

     1. Leadership Practice

     2. Business Practice

     3. Data Security Practice

     4. Professional Development Practice

     5. Classroom Practice

School districts now have two options for earning the TLE Seal. A district may elect to complete all five categories in one ongoing process to earn the full TLE Seal. Or a new option that CoSN now offers to school districts is the opportunity to earn individual “mini” TLE Seals for each of the five separate practices listed above. To learn more about the TLE Seal options for school districts, please visit:

CoSN Membership: If you, your school or district would like more information about joining CoSN or getting more involved with CoSN, please contact membership@cosn.org.

We are excited to share with you an invitation to join the Student Attendance and Engagement Solutions Network, which was created to support districts like yours in your efforts to reduce chronic absence, increase student engagement, and build upon prevention strategies for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond.