Planning Your Federal and State Grant Spending

1
Planning Your Federal and State Grant Spending

• Sherry J. Ulery
• Deputy Chief of Academic Affairs
• Week of February 22, 2010

2
District ARRA

• Netbooks
• DIBELS
• Learning Village
• Extended Day for April June 2010
• Extended Day for 2010-2011 School Year
• Conflict Resolution
• Renaissance Learning
• Springboard
• READ180 for 16 lowest performing 8th grades
• Leadership Team PD
• District PD

3
Title I

• Summer School
• Academic Games
• Credit Recovery
• Kaplan MME support
• District Level Coaches
• Early Childhood
• Reading Recovery

4
Title II A

• District Level Coaches for Priority Schools
• District Level PD
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Leadership
• Support Personnel

5
Collective Bargaining Agreement Initiatives

• Peer Assistance and Review
• Shared Decision-Making
• Professional Development
• Priority Schools
• School Based Bonus

6
Developing Your Spending Plan

• Personnel
• Coaches for Literacy, Mathematics, science
• Additional staff where allowable
• Support District initiatives
• Netbooks (batteries, power cords, air cards)
• Supplemental materials aligned to District
  selections (i.e., additional Storytown materials)

7
Developing Your Spending Plan

• Conflict Resolution programs identified by the
  District
• Neo Carts to support Accelerated
  Reader/Accelerated Math
• Printers
• Print cartridges
• Copy paper
• Desktop computers to support initiatives

8
Developing Your Spending Plan

• Additional Palms
• Additional SSAs
• Center based Literacy activities
• Tape players
• Headsets
• Classroom Libraries (including books on tape)
• Class sets of novels

9
Developing Your Spending Plan

• Mathematics Manipulatives
• Arts and Literacy Integration materials
• Additional PD hours for teachers
• Professional books, tapes, videos on effective
  teaching in literacy and mathematics

10
Analyze Outside Organizations

• Are they making a difference in your school?
• Are they impacting student achievement?
• Have they improved the culture of your school?
• Are they providing a service that you cannot
  provide?