The Year of Change 200809 Title IID

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The Year of Change2008-09 Title II-D

• Formula Accountability Webinar
• Call-in 602.771.9955

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Why?

• Response to Findings
• EETT Federal Audit Findings
• USDOE EETT Desk Monitoring
• ADE Agency Findings
• Potential reauthorization-ATTAIN

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Title II-D Formula Current Monitoring Requirements

• EDEN reporting elements
• Technology Survey
• TLA
• Technology Plan
• 25 PD

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New EDEN reporting elements

• There are 4 EDEN (Education Data Exchange
  Network) reporting elements
• Technology literacy for instructional personnel
• School level computer Internet access
• LEA fully integrated technology status
• 8th grade technology literacy

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LEA Fully Integrated Technology

• Curriculum integration embeds appropriate
  technology to support student learning across all
  curricular areas.

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• Technology literacy is the ability to
  responsibly use appropriate technology to
  communicate, solve problems, create products and
  access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create
  information to improve learning in all subjects,
  to use information to improve learning in all
  subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge
  and skills for the 21st century.

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ADE Technology Survey and Assessment

• http//www.ade.az.gov/technology/downloads/08adete
  chsurvey.pdf
• http//www10.ade.az.gov/SelectSurveyNET/TakeSurvey
  .aspx?SurveyID740Lml6

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TLA

• Required for those districts who receive 10,000
  or more
• Judith Romero jromero_at_learning.com
• [phone] x468 press 2
• http//www.learning.com/help/az/

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Technology Plan

• Title II-D requirement
• Required to have a current plan on file prior to
  submitting application for funds
• Should provide guidance for program activities
  and use of funds
• State revision process
• http//www.ade.az.gov/erate/approved.xls
• http//www.ade.az.gov/technology/TechPlanTemplate0
  6.rtf

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Questions
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Professional Development

• Title II-D requirement
• At least 25 of the allocation spent on PD
• Provide professional development in the
  integration of advanced technologies, including
  emerging technologies, into curricula and
  instruction and in using those technologies to
  create new learning environments, such as
  professional development in the use of technology

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Professional Development

• To provide ongoing and sustained high quality
  professional development
• Does your PD promote sustained capacity?
• ADE has adopted the National Staff Development
  Councils PD Standards http//nsdc.org/

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Eligible Uses for PD

• Use of technology to
• Access data and resources to develop curricula
  and instructional materials
• Enable teachers to
• Use the Internet to communicate with others
• Retrieve Internet-based learning resources
• Improve classroom instruction in the core
  academic subjects and technology literacy
• Section 2416-A1-A-C

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Guiding Your PD

• Standards Assessment Inventory
• http//www.ade.az.gov/asd/hqp/StaffDevelopmentSurv
  eyOpportunity.pdf
• Candy Burch 602-364-2192
• Teacher Technology Assessment

We cannot assume that our schools will naturally
drift toward using technology effectively
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Examples

• Stipend/Salary for district trainers
• Stipend for teachers to attend workshops
• 3rd/Vendor delivered PD
• Peer Coaching
• Stipends for Intel or Thinkfinity workshops
• Free service-Statewide Instructional Technology
  Project
• Intel Teach, IDEAL, Thinkfinity, and iSafe
• http//www.ade.az.gov/technology/sit/
• Ed Tech Conferences (AzTEA, MEC, NECC)

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Questions
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New Title II-D Monitoring

• On-site monitoring visits
• Desk monitoring

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On-site monitoring visits

• Title I monitoring schedule
• Evidence of Professional Development
• Time and Effort
• Fiscal review and asset process
• Services to Eligible Private Schools
• Programmatic site visit

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Title I Cycle 4

• Amphitheater
• Balsz
• Crane
• Lake Havasu
• Mesa
• Murphy
• Red-Mesa

• Sacaton
• Sanders
• White River
• Window Rock

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Evidence of PD

• PD logs/Sign-in sheets
• Course catalog/descriptions
• Process
• Registration
• Documentation
• Certificates

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Time and Effort

• OMB Circular A-87
• If federal funds used for salaries, then time
  distribution records are required.
• Must demonstrate- If employee paid
• with federal funds, then employee worked on that
  specific federal program/ cost objective.
• Specific grant award or other category of costs
  that requires grantee to track specific cost
  information.

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• Any employee working on a federal program
• All employees paid with federal funds
• Some employees paid with non-federal funds
  (matching)

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100 vs Multiple Cost Objectives

• Semi-annual certification signed by supervisor
  and employee
• For the month of September, 2006, I
• spent my time 50 on Title I Program Services
  and 50 on nonfederal programs.

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Personnel Activity Reports (PAR)

• After-the-fact record
• Total activity for which employee compensated and
  the funding source
• At least monthly
• Signed and dated by employee

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Questions
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Other Monitoring Activities

• Fiscal Review and Asset Process
• Eligible Services to Private Schools
• Programmatic Site Visit

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Desk Monitoring

• Phone call, webinar, or submission of evidence
• Evidence of Professional Development
• Time and Effort
• Fiscal review and asset process
• Services to Eligible Private Schools

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Desk Monitoring Cycles

• Aligned to Title I
• Cycle 1
• Fiscal review and asset process
• Cycle 2
• Evidence of Professional Development
• Cycle 3
• Time and Effort
• Cycle 5
• Services to Eligible Private Schools
• Cycle 6
• Full desk monitoring

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Desk Monitoring

• Bullhead City
• Cedar Unified School District
• Chinle Unified School District
• Creighton Elementary School District
• Flagstaff Unified School District
• Indian Oasis-Baboquivari
• Isaac

• Peoria Unified School District
• Phoenix Union
• Phoenix Elementary
• Pinion
• Tempe Elementary
• Tempe Union High School
• Washington

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Questions
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ADE Ed Tech Staff

• Cathy Poplin
• Deputy Associate Superintendent
• cathy.poplin_at_azed.gov
• 602-364-1349
• Nan Williams
• Director of Educational Technology
• nan.williams_at_azed.gov
• 602-542-4214
• Brett Hinton
• Educational Program Specialist
• brett.hinton_at_azed.gov
• 602-542-5233