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
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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 (nonprofit 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
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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/CurriculumInstruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-andInstruction/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:
Large
• $3,292,885
Mid
• $2,329,644
Small
• $1,909,687
• Distribution band per pupil
allocation:
B-5
• $1449.76
Elem.
• $459.69
Middle
• $403.13
High
• $386.34
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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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Details of the Application
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Needs Assessment
• Needs Assessment and Literacy Planning docs
can be located at:
http://www.gadoe.org/CurriculumInstruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-andInstruction/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.
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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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 (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
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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 jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us
• Request membership on the list serv
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SRCL Timeline
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September 16, 2013
October 2013
Sept. – December 2013
Grant application available on GaDOE website
Fluid Review available for use (Webinar training)
Technical assistance upon request from GADOE
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December 13, 2013
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January 2014
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January 2014
January 2014
Applications due to the Georgia Department of Education’s
Fluid Review site
Review of application components; incomplete applications will
not be forwarded to readers for scoring
Reader review and scoring
Federal compliance review and analysis of applications
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February 2014
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February 2014
March – April 2014
June 2014
Recommended sub-grantees submitted to State Board of
Education for action
Cohort three awards announced with 20% start up funding
Performance plans and budget timelines due
Kick off meeting (TBD)
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Technical Assistance
Please contact us in the Striving Reader Office at:
Julie Morrill
Program Manager
jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us
706-473-3159
Beverly Cox
Program Specialist, Pre-k -5
bcox@doe.k12.ga.us
404-823-4512
Joshua Todd
Program Specialist, 6-12
jtodd@doe.k12.ga.us
404-823-4901
Joyce Kelley
Accounting clerk
jkelley@doe.k12.ga.us
404-656-2093
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