SRCL Grant Awareness Sessions
Grant Award Systems and Schools
• GA’s SRCL Grant Systems and Schools:
http://www.gadoe.org/CurriculumInstruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-andInstruction/Pages/Literacy-Reading.aspx
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GA Striving Readers Listserv
• Send an email to jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us
• Request membership on the list serv
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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.
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
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Site-Based Literacy Team
Do you already
have a school
literacy team?
Who is on it?
Does it include
special area
teachers?
Does its work
inform the
system team?
How often
does it meet?
How does it
function?
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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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Eligible applicants
• LEAs and non-profit providers of early learning
35% or more qualifying for free/reduced lunch
based on the 2011 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
providing professional learning for child care
providers
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Award
• Georgia was awarded $25,650,000 for year one.
– 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.
• Pending Congressional budget approval, the State should
receive approximately $27,000,000 per year for an additional
4 years.
• We plan to request an award in the amount of $27,000,000
for cohort two
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Cohort One Sub-grantees
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Bartow
Brantley
Cartersville City
Clarke
Fulton
Jeff Davis
Jefferson County
Morgan
Rome City
• Grant writer/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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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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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 one average awards:
Large
• $4,551,025
Mid
• $3,193,574
Small
• $2,308,413
• Distribution band average
awards:
B-5
• $878.67
Elem.
• $488.57
Middle
• $744.98
High
• $542.99
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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 two then have until
September 30, 2018 to draw down, or actually
spend, the FY 2013 portion of their grants.
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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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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
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Teacher training and professional development should be a primary focus of SRCL
funding
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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)
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Use valid and reliable assessments (Universal screeners, formative, summative,
diagnostics, as well as the use of Lexiles); SRCL grantees must use program
assessments
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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 not associated with the
extension of the Pre-K days
• 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 quarterly 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 quarterly 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)
• Modules will be developed beginning this summer
• 10 modules are currently available at
http://www.comprehensivereadingsolutions.com/
• Early Reading Teacher Academies can be found at
http://www.professionallearning.gadoe.org/Pages/Cou
rseCatalogPublic.aspx
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Assessment
Purposes
Properties
Skills Measured
Test Frequency
Dev. & function
2 X per year
Birth - Three
DP-3
S
Yes
Four-Year Old
PALS-Pre-k
S, PM, O
Yes
AK, PA, CoP, OL
3X per yr.
PPVT4 Form A/B
S, PM, O
Yes
V, OL
2 X per yr.
CLASS
T-S interactions
Yes
Classroom
1 X per yr
AR, PA, ORF
3 X per yr
K-5
DIBELS Next
S, PM, O
Yes
CRCT
O
ELA
1 X per yr
IPI
D
Decoding
3 X per yr
SRI
S, PM, O
RC-Inferential
3 X per yr
CRCT
O
V, RC
1 X per yr
SRI
S, PM, O
RC-Inferential
3 X per yr
End-Of-Course Test
O
ELA
1 X per yr
Language
1 X per yr
6-8
Yes
9-12
Yes
K-12
ACCESS for ELLs
S
Yes
AK-Alphabet Knowledge, PA-Phonological Awareness, CoP-Concepts of Print, OL-Oral Language, PN-Picture Naming, A and R-Alliteration and Rhyming, OL-Oral Language,
NWF (Decoding), ORL-(Oral Reading Fluency), V-(Vocabulary), RC-(Reading Comprehension). S=Screening, PM=Progress Monitor, O=Outcome , D=Diagnostic; DP3=Developmental Profile; screen for developmental delays; PALS-Pre-k=phonological awareness and literacy screening; PPVT =measures receptive vocabulary; CLASS=
assesses classroom quality in pre-k-3 classrooms; IPI=Informal Phonics Inventory, SRI=Scholastic Reading Inventory; ACCESS for ELLs=English language proficiency test
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Assessment
• Outcome measure for yearly evaluation
– CRCT, EOCT, Class, Access
• Universal Screeners (mandatory)
– Dibels Next, Scholastic Reading Inventory, PALS
Pre-k and PPVT
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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. Develop Review Room
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What is Review Room?
Review room 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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Review Room
Link
• The URL is: gastrivingreader12.myreviewroom.com/
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Create your Log-in
• You will need to create a log-in for your district
• You will use your district email and create a
password.
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Create your district profile
As the district administrator, you will develop
the district profile. You will use the access
code to begin development of this.
The district Access code is: (it is case sensitive)
SRCL2012GAdistrict
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After the district profile is created
• You will send the school access code to a
school/center contact that will begin
development of the school profile.
• Each school will develop their own, you must
pre-populate the school or center that will
develop a grant.
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Create your school profile
• You will need the school access code
• SRCL2012School (case sensitive)
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Next Steps
• Once all of your profiles are created, you will
need to wait until the grant application is
released.
• I will send out an email on the list serve that it
is ready. You will then log back into your site
and see that you have more work to do.
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SRCL Timeline
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July 2012
Review Room launches
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Sept. – December 2012
Technical assistance upon request from GADOE
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December 14, 2012
Applications due to the Georgia Department of Education
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January 2013
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January 2013
January 2013
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February 2013
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February 2013
March – April 2013
Review of application components; incomplete applications will
not be forwarded to readers for scoring – Phase 1
Reader review and scoring – Phase 2
Federal compliance review and analysis of applications – Phase
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Recommended sub-grantees submitted to State Board of
Education for action
Cohort two awards announced with 20% start up funding
Performance plans and budget timelines due
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Technical Assistance
Please contact us in the Striving Readers Office at:
Julie Morrill
Program Manager
jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us
404-657-8318
404-425-2975
Beverly Cox
Program Specialist, Pre-k -5
bcox@doe.k12.ga.us
404-823-4512
404-656-2483
Joshua Todd
Program Specialist, 6-12
jtodd@doe.k12.ga.us
404-823-4901
404-656-2590
Joyce Kelley
Accounting clerk
jkelley@doe.k12.ga.us
404-656-2093
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