The Millennium Project

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The Millennium Project (PT3 Capacity Building
Grant P342A990474)

• Pathways for Preparing TomorrowsTeachers to
  Infuse Technology

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Millennium Project

• Funding Agency U.S. Dept. of Education
• Award Date
• 9/22/1999
• Duration
• 9/1/99 through 8/31/00 (12/31 extended)
• Amount Awarded
• 174 K Requested
• 163 K Awarded (210 K w/match)

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Millennium IIPT3 Implementation Grant
P342A000123

• Preparing TomorrowsTeachers to Bridge the
  Digital Divide

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Millennium II

• Funding Agency U.S. Dept. of Education
• Award Date
• 6/2000
• Duration (3 yrs.)
• 6/1/00 - 5/31/03
• Amount Awarded (1.5 x Capacity Grant/yr)
• 1.5 Million Requested
• 780 K Awarded (818 K match)

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Consortium Partners

• School Districts/ PDSs
• Allen, Aubrey, Carroll, Dallas, Denton,
  Duncanville, Little Elm, Sanger. San Antonio,
  Universal Academy
• Colleges/Universitites
• UNT Visual Arts, AS, Music, Tarrant Co. Coll.
• MSU, TAMU-Texarkana, UTSA (all cut)
• Professional Associations
• TAET, TCEA

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Available Resources

• 6 Tech guides 99-00, 6 6 01-03
• 6 Team teachers 99-00, 6 Spr. 01 only
• 18 Integration fellows (10 hrs/wk) Spr. 01
• 1 Webmistress (10 hr/wk), .25 FTE tech
• 2 Evaluators/1 Facilitator (.5), 1 Facil.
• 5 Co-PIs/4 Investigators
• 11 Consortium Partners 5 Partners

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What was lost in the cuts?

• All university partnerships
• Grant processing officer (position)
• Travel
• Anything that sounded like recruitment
• UNT programs _at_ 150 of Capacity Building remained

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Implementation 2000-2001

• 1. Teacher Ed. Content Teams (Mathis)
• 2. Team Teachers/Partner Districts (Rademacher)
• 3. Web Support for Preservice Courses (Holcomb)
• 4. Field Placement of Interns (Tipps)
• 5. Summer Institute for Paraprofessionals (Allen)
• 6. Outreach to Other Colleges/Secondary Ed.
  (Harris)
• 7. Technology Integration Fellows (Tyler-Wood)
• 8. Technology Integration Teacher Lab (Bane)
• 9. Technology Integration Prof. Dev.
  (Christensen)

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Whats the Catch?

• We need from you
• Ideas (for now, future years)
• Implementation (in your classrooms)
• Pre-post data
• From your students (Univ. K-12)
• From you as a faculty member
• Special Note Integration fellow funding will
  probably be based on Spr 01 performance!

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For More Information

• Proposal narrative and current activities
• For 2000-2003
• http//iittl.unt.edu/PT3ii
• gknezek_at_tenet.edu, 940-565-4195
• 1999-2000 activities
• http//www.iittl.unt.edu/pt3