FY08 Title II, Part D

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FY08 Title II, Part D Enhancing Education Through
TechnologyCompetitive Grants
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Teachers Teamwork TechnologyT3 Quick
Summary

• 76 grants will be awarded.
• 119 schools are eligible to apply.
• Up to 98,518.00 per award.
• Applications are due Feb. 15th.
• Schools notified on April 3rd.

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T3 Purpose

• To address a statewide need to improve
  instruction to meet the needs of 21st century
  learners impact student achievement.

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Method of Distribution

• In order to ensure an equitable distribution of
  assistance across rural and urban districts
  according to the demonstrated need of those local
  educational agencies serving the areas, the
  following weighted method of distribution was
  employed

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Each eligible school is responsible for its grant
application, but the LEA is responsible for sign
off and submission.
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Each eligible School/LEA is allowed to make an
application to

• Help a team (Library Media Specialist, building
  administrator, and at least four classroom
  teachers) address the ISTE NETS-S, the AASL
  Learning Standards, and the Georgia Performance
  Standards
• The Media Center and the four grant classrooms
  must be connected in some manner (by common
  curriculum area, grade level, common teacher
  planning teams, etc.) and it must be clearly
  defined in the grant proposal.
• Provide extensive professional development for
  the leadership team over a two year period of
  time

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Equipment Expectations

• Provide the Media Center and each designated
  classroom with the following equipment
• Mounted interactive whiteboard and portable
  interactive device w/ installation.
• Mounted LCD projector.
• Teacher laptop or tablet.
• Student response/voting system (2-one for the
  Media Center and one to share in classrooms).
• 4 Digital cameras
• Digital video camera (Media Center)
• 2 Laser printers
• 500 GB Network Attached Storage

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Equipment Expectations

• Laptop/Tablet charging/storage cart (2-one for
  the Media Center and one to share in classrooms)
• A minimum of 5 student laptops/tablets per Media
  Center/classroom or a total of 25
• The School/LEA may combine the classroom laptops
  or tablets to make a moveable wireless car that
  is to be used solely by the designated grant
  classrooms on a shared basis.
• The LEA must provide an appropriate number of
  wireless access points to support the laptop cart
  with one access point per every 8 laptops
• 10 Podcasting capable MP3 players w/ Microphone
  Charge Pack (to be housed in the Media Center)
• Productivity Software Licenses
• Video editing software
• Audio enhanced system (Media Center)

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If funded, Schools/LEAs must agree to the
following

• Provide electrical wiring to the point of
  installation for the mounted interactive
  whiteboard and LCD projector.
• Provide adequate access points for the teacher
  and student laptops.
• Require the leadership team to complete the
  professional learning offered through the local
  ETTCs.
• Participate in a designated outside evaluation of
  the program utilizing Title IID Competitive grant
  funds.

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Grant provides up to 98,518.00

• Professional Learning - 24,630 (25)
• Required 14,400 for professional learning
  provided by local ETTCs
• To ensure a consistent delivery of content
• To foster a statewide learning community centered
  around establishing and maintaining 21st Century
  learning environments
• 1,200 per person for the first year of the grant
  (08-09 school year)
• 1,200 per person for the second year of the
  grant (09-10 school year)
• All professional development funds will be paid
  to the ETTC during the 08-09 school year
• 5 PLUs may be earned per year by each grant team
  member completing the sequence.

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• Required 5,000 for onsite support provided by
  the local ETTC
• To contract with the local ETTC to serve as
  instructional technical coaches for at least
  100 hours of onsite instructional support and
  onsite technical support for the project.
• The coaching services will be charged at 50/hr.
• It is recommended that the LEA receive 80 hours
  of instructional coaching and 20 hours of
  technical coaching. However, the 100 hours may be
  used as needed as long as the LEA meets the 100
  hours of coaching support with its local ETTC.
• Required 5,230 for other professional learning
  expenses
• To be spent at the discretion of the LEA
• To support the Media Center, the grant
  classrooms, and the grant teachers at the
  eligible school
• Recommended expenditures
• Attendance at GaETC or other state/national
  conferences
• Involve additional participants in the
  professional learning

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Year 1 Professional Development
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Year 2 Professional Development
Please note that there will be additional events
and activities in which successful applicants
will be required to participate. Some of these
will include, but are not limited to, GaETC or
other professional conferences, professional
development offerings, targeted
assistance/training, external evaluation, on-site
visits, and data collection requests, as well as
other necessary program components.
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• Evaluation - 2,000
• Required 2,000 for outside evaluator
• To be designated by GaDOE
• School/LEA will be billed
• All applicants will be required to
• Provide documentation on key outcomes and
  promising practices
• Complete data collection on participating
  students and classrooms
• Submit a performance report that evaluates at
  least annually the following
• The recipients progress in achieving the
  objections in its approved application
• The effectiveness of the project in meeting the
  purposes of the program and
• The effect of the project on participants being
  served by the project.

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Equipment 71,888

• Required 71,888 to equip the Media Center and
  a minimum of four classrooms with the following
  21st century teaching and learning tools
• Mounted interactive whiteboard and portable
  interactive device
• Mounted LCD projector
• Teacher laptop or tablet
• Student response/voting system (2-one for the
  Media Center and one to share in classrooms)
• Laptop/Tablet charging/storage cart (2-one for
  the Media Center and one to share in classrooms)
• A minimum of 5 student laptops/tablets per Media
  Center/classroom or a total of 25
• The LEA must provide an appropriate number of
  wireless access points to support the laptop cart
• There should be one access point for every 8
  laptops on the cart

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• 4 Digital cameras
• Digital video camera (Media Center)
• 2 Laser printers
• Productivity Software Licenses
• 500 GB Network Attached Storage
• Video editing software
• 10 Podcasting capable MP3 players w/ Microphone
  Charge Pack
• Audio enhanced system (Media Center)
• Awarded Schools/LEAs will select the equipment as
  long as it is based on the minimum hardware
  specifications in Appendix B
• All hardware purchases are to be made in
  conjunction with an ETTC

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• If the cost of equipping the Media Center and
  four designated grant classrooms is less than
  71,888, remaining funds may be used to
• bring additional classrooms into the grant
  project
• may be diverted to additional student equipment
  purchases
• If the school already has 21st century equipment
  in the five grant areas, additional 21st century
  tools such as the ones listed below may be
  purchased for those areas providing a waiver is
  obtained from GaDOE

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• Remaining Funds may also be used to purchase
• Wireless access points for the designated grant
  classrooms and/or wireless access points to
  accommodate the charging cart. (Wireless hardware
  purchases must be approved by the partnering
  ETTC. )
• Additional hardware and software, if appropriate
  for the content area and grade levels of the
  designated grant classrooms
• If the awarded School/LEA already has established
  equipment as described in the grant, funds must
  be used to
• Document that the equipment meets the
  specifications
• If necessary, bring the technology up to meet the
  minimum specifications as outlined in Appendix B
  of the grant guidance.

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• If the Schools/LEAs choose equipment for which
  cost exceeds available grant funds, it will be
  the LEAs responsibility to provide the
  additional funds needed to purchase the required
  equipment.
• The LEA should work collaboratively with their
  ETTC to fully utilize their e-Rate funding to
  systemically support building the infrastructure
  and capacity to encourage the laptop/tablet usage
  for instructional purposes

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Grant Timelines

• Grant proposals must be uploaded to Georgias
  Consolidated Application website by 500 P.M. on
  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008
• Each grant will be read and scored by five
  trained grant readers
• The highest and lowest scores will be thrown out
  and the middle three scores will be averaged to
  determine the final score.
• If the LEA did not receive the FY07 Title II-D
  ITEE Competitive Grant, three (3) points will be
  added to the average score of each application
  received from eligible schools within that LEA.
• The GaDOE will ask the State Board of Education
  to approve the 76 awards on April 3, 2008
• The funding period will be April 3, 2008 - June
  30, 2008, with a carry over period from July 1,
  2008 - June 30, 2009

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• The implementation period for this grant is for
  the 2008-09 and 2009-2010 school years
• Professional development
• On-going instructional/technical support
• Budget
• April 3, 2008 May 15, 2008 work with ETTC to
  develop Schools/LEAs budget
• Upload budget to GaDOEs Consolidated
  Applications no later than May 15, 2008
• Equipment
• Purchased no later than June 15, 2008
• Delivered no later than July 15, 2008
• Installed no later than the beginning of the
  2008-09 school year

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This grant is designed to address a statewide
need to improve instruction to meet the needs of
the 21st Century learner impact overall student
achievement by...

• assisting every student regardless of race,
  ethnicity, income, geographical location, or
  disability in becoming technologically literate
  by the end of the eighth grade
• encouraging the effective integration of
  technology resources and systems through
  professional development and curriculum
  development to promote research-based
  instructional methods that can be widely
  replicated
• increasing the LEAs capacity to design and
  implement program evaluation

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Allowable Activities may include

• Establishing or expanding initiatives,
  particularly initiatives involving public-private
  partnerships, designed to increase accessibility
  to technology for students and teachers, with
  special emphasis on accessibility for high-need
  schools
• Adapting or expanding applications of technology
  to enable teachers to increase student academic
  achievement, including technology literacy
• Through the use of teaching practices that are
  based on the review of relevant research and
  designed to prepare students to meet the Georgia
  Performance Standards, particularly in reading
  and math
• By the development and use of innovative
  distance-learning strategies to deliver
  specialized or rigorous academic courses and
  curricula to areas that would not otherwise have
  access to such courses and curricula

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• Using technology to connect teachers with parents
  and students in order to
• Promote meaningful parental involvement
• Foster communication among students, parents, and
  teachers about curricula, assignments, and
  assessments
• Help parents understand the technology being
  utilized in their childrens education so that
  they can reinforce at home the instruction
  received at school
• Using technology to address the identified needs
  in the Schools/LEAs CLIP
• Preparing the Media Specialist and four or more
  teachers in schools as technology leaders who can
  serve as instructional coaches and mentors
  focusing on technology integration

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• Acquiring, adapting, expanding, implementing,
  repairing, and maintaining existing and new
  applications of technology to support school
  reform efforts and to improve student
  achievement, including technology literacy
• Acquiring connectivity linkages, resources, and
  services (e.g., hardware and software, other
  electronically delivered learning materials,
  etc.) for use by students and school personnel to
  improve academic achievement
• NOTE--based upon the curriculum area or areas
  being served, applicants will be required to
  describe within the grant application the
  evaluation method(s) that will be used to
  demonstrate their students technology literacy

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Allowable Expenditures

• Only costs associated with implementing the GaDOE
  Title II Grant will be approved
• Allowable costs for professional development
• Fees
• Stipends
• Substitute pay
• Travel costs for attending professional learning
  activities and conferences
• Travel for required meetings
• Student technology assessment fees
• Online classes
• Appropriate teacher and classroom hardware and
  software.

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• Allowable costs for equipment
• Interactive whiteboards
• Portable interactive devicesstudent
  response/voting systems
• LCD projectors
• Student laptops/tablets
• Laptop carts/lockers with wireless access points
• Podcasting capable MP3 players with microphones
• Network printers
• Digital cameras
• Document cameras
• Probes graphing calculators, etc.
• Please refer to Appendix B to find minimum
  specifications for hardware/software

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Non-Allowable Expenditures

• Grant funds cannot be used to
• Supplant existing positions, programs, or
  services (i.e., salaried positions)
• Purchase computers for a computer lab
• Purchase software, equipment or services for
  classrooms outside of the grant classrooms
• Purchase furniture, desks, chairs or other
  classroom equipment that is not instructional
  technology in nature
• Grant funds cannot be
• Obligated before the grant period
• Paid prior to any services being rendered

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Please refer to pages 10-12 in the Grant Guidance
to discuss the required grant application
components
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• Required narrative sections
• Proposal Format (10 points)
• Section A Project Personnel (15 points)
• Section B Critical Academic Needs in Core Area
  (10 points)
• Section C Critical Technology Need s (10
  points)
• Section D Current Instructional Context Needs
  Assessment (10 points)
• Section E System Support for Grant (10 points)
• Section F Local Implementation Plan (30 points)
• Section G Evaluation Plan (10 points)
• Section H Dissemination Plan (10 points)

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Proposal Format (10 points), Page 10

• The proposal document should be in the following
  format and contain the following Appendices
• The document should have the correct name format
  ABC County_XYZ ElemSchool
• All components should be contained in ONE AND
  ONLY ONE PDF document
• The narrative should not exceed more than 20
  pages
• The document should begin with the cover sheet
  (Appendix C)

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Proposal Format (10 points)

• Each document page should contain a header with
  the name of the grant, district name, and school
  name
• The footer should contain page number and the
  date
• All grant proposals should use Times New Roman
  font, with font size of 10, and be single spaced
• The left and right margins should each be one
  inch

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Proposal Format (10 points)

• The document should also contain the
• Appendix D Assurance Form
• Appendix E Private School Form
• Appendix F ETTC sign-off Form containing the
  Directors signature
• Appendix H System Letter of Commitment
  containing the signatures of all team members

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Project Personnel (15 points), Page 10

• The purpose of this section is to explain
• why the personnel are uniquely
• capable/qualified to assume these roles
• Evidence that a complete team of project
  personnel has been assembled
• Evidence that all team members have knowledge of
  the grant application and what it says
• Letter of Commitment signed by each Media
  Specialist, building admin, and teachers
• Team members involved in writing the grant,
• Team members engaged in the grant plan
• Team members share the grant goals and
  responsibilities

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Project Personnel (15 points)

• The academic background of proposed project
  personnel, especially in the areas of
• Curriculum/instruction (particularly in the
  identified academic need area)
• Instructional technology
• School improvement
• Educational leadership
• The professional experience of proposed project
  personnel, especially in the areas of
• designing and delivering high-quality
  professional development
• Managing grant programs
• Collaborating with external partners for the
  purposes of school improvement

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Project Personnel (15 points)

• Evidence of past successes that can be attributed
  to proposed project personnel, especially in the
  areas of
• School improvement
• Professional development
• Program management
• Evidence of how the grant teachers are connected
  through
• Common curriculum
• Common grade level
• Common planning time to build capacity for a
  learning community among the grant teachers

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Critical Academic Needs in Core Area (10 points),
Page 10

• Describe the current academic and technology
  literacy needs that will be addressed by this
  grant
• Clearly define and document the academic need in
  core academic area(s) using well-established data
  sources and trend data over time
• Document academic needs that are critical
• Below state averages
• Preventing schools from making AYP
• Keeping schools on Needs Improvement lists
• Document academic needs in terms consistent with
• Georgias Performance Standards
• The NETS-S
• The AASL Learning Standards

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Critical Technology Needs (10 points),Page 10

• Describe the Schools/LEAs need for technology
  enhanced environments
• Outline technology budgets/expenditures over the
  past three years to show your high need for
  technology funding

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Current Instructional Context Needs Assessment
(10 points), Page 11

• Describe the current instructional and technical
  context of the school giving a complete and
  credible portrait of the teachers
• Content knowledge
• Current instructional practices
• Technology access
• Technology use
• Compare it to where the school would like to be
  in the future by
• Analyzing the gap between current realities in
  the school system and research/best practices
• Establishing a concrete action plan to move the
  system forward

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Current Instructional Context Needs Assessment
(10 points)

• Determine what the school needs to move in the
  desired direction
• Evidence that grant goals are aligned to the
  LEAS school improvement plan (CLIP)
• Clearly state how this grant will help them move
  toward their goals
• A commitment by the applicant to address
• Specific learning goals
• Georgia Performance Standards
• Authentic, engaging instruction for their
  students
• Evidence that the School/LEA has aligned the
  grant goals to the Georgia Department of
  Educations Keys to Quality Unlocking
  Continuous Improvement resources

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System Support for Grant (10 points), Page 11

• Describe the willingness of project staff
  (Library Media Specialist, building
  administrator, and teachers) to engage in
• Student-centered cultural change
• Instruction focused on engaging students in
  authentic tasks and technology deployment
• Describe what types of specific system supports
  are currently in place that will
• Assist them in fully implementing the grant
• Help the grant teachers and the grant program

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System Support for Grant (10 points)

• Describe how the LEA will provide the necessary
• Wireless access points.
• Electrical wiring for the interactive whiteboard
  and projector.
• A discussion of in-kind contributions is
  appropriate in this section.

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Local Implementation Plan (30 points),Page 11

• The purpose of this section is to
• Establish how the School/LEA will use the
  required equipment in the grant classrooms and
  the Media Center.
• Establish how the grant activities will align
  with the
• Implementation of the schools CLIP.
• Use of the Keys to Quality Unlocking Continuous
  Improvement resources.
• Georgia Performance Standards
• NETS-S
• AASL Learning Standards
• Research and best-practice models of
  inquiry-based, project-based, or engaged learning

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Local Implementation Plan (30 points)Page 11

• Describe the types of activities that will happen
  in the classrooms and the Media Center
• Specify how the instructional/classroom and/or
  Media Center activities will change to encourage
  participants to work collaboratively as a team
• Specify how the instructional activities will
  provide rigor and motivation to the students
• Specify specific curriculum resources, including
  software and online resources that will be made
  available to the grant teachers and students
• Describe specific curriculum resources, including
  software and online resources that will be made
  available the grant team and students

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Evaluation Plan (10 points)Page 11

• The purpose of this section is to
• Outline how they will evaluate progress toward
• Research-based instructional practices.
• Effective use of technology for teaching and
  learning.
• Improving students technology literacy and
  academic performance in critical need areas.
• A description of the steps and process for
  assessing success in implementing the funded
  project.
• A description of specific measures to evaluate
  the extent to which the project increases the
  integration of technology into instructional
  practices.

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Evaluation Plan (10 points) Page 11

• A description of the specific criteria used to
  measure the impact of the project on student
  achievement.
• At a minimum, CRCT or EOCT data submitted for
  2007-2008, 2008-2009, and 2009-2010 for the
  participating teachers/classrooms.
• A description of the evaluation method(s) that
  will be used to demonstrate their students
  technology literacy.
• A timeline for completing the implementation of
  the project and the evaluation steps.

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Dissemination Plan (10 points) Page 12

• This section will include an explanation of
• What schools/LEAs expect to learn from
  participating in this grant.
• How they will use this information/increased
  capacity locally in the future.
• How they will share what they have learned with
  others
• Evidence of targeting specific audiences.
• Plans to develop specific, usable products that
  would be useful to others.

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Dissemination Plan (10 points) Page 12

• Disseminating information that will
• Improve student achievement.
• Use technology.
• Benefit a broad audience and a variety of
  stakeholders.
• High probability that others would respond to the
  Schools/LEAs dissemination plan.

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Budget Forms

• Budget forms will not be a component of the
  competitive proposal.
• Schools/LEAs can indicate how each required
  activity will be funded in the Local
  Implementation Plan.
• Budgets will be required after awards are made
  and completed through the Consolidated
  Application Web Site.

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Other Scoring Components

• 115 points awarded for narrative sections.
• Up to 10 points for overall quality of
  application and if applicant has the capacity for
  high-quality implementation and data collection.
• 125 points possible.

GaDOE and the review team reserve the right to
interview proposed LEA project personnel to
verify application information. Competitive
points will be aligned with the narrative
requirements.
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Contact Information
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FY08 Title II, Part D Enhancing Education
Through Technology(Ed Tech) Competitive Grants