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SRCL Grant Awareness Sessions
Title 1, Part E Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
• The goal of the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) program is to advance literacy skills-including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing—for students from birth through grade 12.
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Award
• Georgia was awarded $21.2 MM for cohort three. – 95% of the funding will be sub-granted to LEAs
and non-profit early learning providers who reside in an eligible district . These providers are encouraged to partner with LEAs but it is not mandatory.
– 5% remains at the State for program administration, professional learning contracts, and evaluation.
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Earmarked Funding
• 15% of funding “Early Learning” Birth to age 5 (non-profit early learning centers and pre-k)
• 40% Kindergarten through 5th grade (Elementary School)
• 20% Middle and 20% High schools with equal distribution of funding
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Grant Period
• A grant award is made available for an approved performance period of five years
• Award money must be distributed across multiple years of the life of the grant
• Sub grantees for cohort three then have until September 30, 2019 to draw down, or actually spend, the FY 2014 portion of their grants.
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Eligible applicants • LEAs and non-profit providers of early learning
35% or more qualifying for free/reduced lunch based on the 2012 count
Funds support birth to grade 12 literacy projects in eligible high poverty/lower performing LEAs
Non-profit providers of Early Learning who have experience providing childcare services and professional learning for child care providers
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Sub-grantees per Cohort
• 1 Large system with more than 45,000 students (4 high schools, 4 middle schools, 8 elementary schools, and 8 early learning centers)
• 2 Mid-Sized Systems with more than 10,000 students (2 high schools, 2 middle schools, 4 elementary schools and 4 early learning centers)
• 6 Small Systems with less than 10,000 students (can include all schools in the system)
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Cohort One & Two Sub-grantees
Cohort One• Bartow County• Brantley County• Cartersville City Schools• Clarke County• Fulton County• Jeff Davis County• Jefferson County• Morgan County• Rome City Schools
Cohort Two• Bartow County*• Brantley County B-5*• Bleckley County• Clarke County*• Coffee County• Fulton County*• Murray County• Pierce County• Union County• Vidalia City Schools
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Grant Award Systems and Schools
• GA’s SRCL Grant Systems and Schools: http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Pages/Literacy-Reading.aspx
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Sub-grant Awards• Each sub-grant award
will be dependent upon school population, number of teachers, and submitted budget
• LEAs may choose to use 5% of total funding for grant administration
• Cohort two average awards:
• Distribution band per pupil allocation:
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• $3,292,885Large
• $2,329,644Mid
• $1,909,687Small
• $1449.76B-5• $459.69Elem.• $403.13Middle• $386.34High
Site-Based Literacy Team
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Do you already have a school literacy team?
Who is on it?Does it include
special area teachers?
How does it function?
How often does it meet?
Does its work inform the
system team?
Details of the Application
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Needs Assessment
• Needs Assessment and Literacy Planning docs can be located at: http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Pages/Literacy-Reading.aspx
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Georgia Literacy Plan
• Birth through Grade Twelve– Craft a literacy plan and use SRCL to fund that plan
• Coordination of all resources– Consider what it currently cost your school and system to
“do” literacy
• Response to intervention• The Why• The What• The How
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Scientific, Evidence-based Literacy Plan
• This is where you begin to build your school plan.
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Use the “Why” to
tell you the research
behind your decisions
Use the “What”
document as a guide
for what you should have in place to
achieve lifetime
literacy skills
The “How” document
will help you do your needs
assessment
The Needs Assessment will provide you with the
necessary tools to
determine your
school’s literacy needs
Literacy plan design and use of SRCL funds
Literacy plans should coordinate all resources available and use SRCL funding to fill gaps determined in needs assessments
Teacher training and professional development should be a primary focus of SRCL funding
Receive in-depth training on the English Language Arts Common Core Georgia Performance Standards: “the how” to teach reading and writing in a variety of delivery models appropriate to adults (on-line, face-to-face, poly-com, webinar)
Use valid and reliable assessments (Universal screeners, formative, summative, diagnostics, as well as the use of Lexiles); SRCL grantees must use program assessments
Print materials for classroom, media centers, family literacy
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Literacy plan design and use of SRCL funds
• Provide a Response to Intervention model of differentiation, ensure that staff is properly trained, and confirm that students are appropriately placed (elementary, middle and high school)
• Provide for at least 90 minutes of direct literacy instruction and incorporate literacy strategies throughout the content areas
• Provide for at least 2-4 hours of literacy instruction embedded into the content area
• Ensure that all leaders are active participants in all training, as well as assessments and project management
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Literacy plan design and use of SRCL funds
• Extend literacy programs or offer summer literacy camp and contract with staff to administer
• Extend Pre-K to match the school calendar and extend teacher and assistant salaries
• Reimburse all travel expenses for staff to attend professional learning and meetings
• Intervention materials, assessment materials and training for teachers in all content areas including special education, CTAE and ESL
• Classroom equipment, materials, and supplies related to literacy, content literacy and literacy instruction
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Literacy plan design and use of SRCL funds
• Instructional technology to expand media titles for student’s access to print, increase student engagement, and add periodicals for student and teacher use for instruction
• Technology purchases:– Consider insurance, replacement costs, etc. over the life of
the grant
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Disallowed Expenditures
• Full time personnel (FTE)• Food is not allowable with the exception of
family literacy activities as allowable in the Title I regulations
• SRCL is not a technology grant but funds can be used to accommodate necessary upgrades to equipment (wireless routers, etc.)
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Monitoring
• Each site will be visited two-three times by program specialists to audit program compliance, fiscal compliance, and to provide technical assistance
• An annual performance evaluation will be conducted by the Program Manager with additional visits to projects on an as needed basis using audit findings
• Technical Assistance by all program staff as needed
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Sustainability
• Must consider sustainability of processes, programs, and equipment beyond the life of the grant
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Professional Learning
– Professional Learning Architect Web Based Materials• Contracted services to provide direct teacher
professional learning (specific to early literacy, elementary, middle, and high school)• Over 40 modules are currently available at
http://www.comprehensivereadingsolutions.com/
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Assessment
• Outcome measure for yearly evaluation (we will collect data from GaDOE)– Class (as determined by DECAL)– Access (all ELs)– CRCT (Grades 3,5,8)– EOCT (9th and 11th English)
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Universal Screeners (mandatory)
– DP3 (three year olds)– PALS Pre-k and PPVT (four year olds and Pre-K)– Dibels Next is K-3 based on SRCL Grant
amendment to USED– Scholastic Reading Inventory (3-12)
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To prepare for the upcoming subgrant competition
1. Convene system and school literacy teams– Decide who are appropriate members of literacy
team prior to formulating grant proposal
2. Conduct a thorough data review of all schools and establish a school feeder pattern that has capacity and would benefit from this type of literacy reform effort
3. Conduct your needs assessment for each school
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Suggestions
• Grant writer vs. school developed applications• Frequent request for technical assistance• Frequent questions by email and phone• Grant administrator• School and system buy-in
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Fluid Review
Fluid Review is an online data management system that will allow us to do all of our grant development and management in one location.
It allows us to set up work flow so that you will upload and manage your grant development and then we will manage the review.
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GA Striving Readers Listserv
• Send an email to [email protected]
• Request membership on the list serv
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SRCL Timeline• September 16, 2013 Grant application available on GaDOE website• October 2013 Fluid Review available for use (Webinar training)• Sept. – December 2013 Technical assistance upon request from GADOE
• December 13, 2013 Applications due to the Georgia Department of Education’sFluid Review site
• January 2014 Review of application components; incomplete applications will not be forwarded to readers for scoring
• January 2014 Reader review and scoring • January 2014 Federal compliance review and analysis of applications
• February 2014 Recommended sub-grantees submitted to State Board of Education for action
• February 2014 Cohort three awards announced with 20% start up funding• March – April 2014 Performance plans and budget timelines due• June 2014 Kick off meeting (TBD)
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Technical Assistance
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Please contact us in the Striving Reader Office at:
Julie MorrillProgram Manager
Joshua ToddProgram Specialist, [email protected]
404-823-4901
Beverly CoxProgram Specialist, Pre-k -5
[email protected] 404-823-4512
Joyce KelleyAccounting clerk