2003-2004
Grant
Title: Region V Project Gateway
Grant
Amount: $286,403.00
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Barbara Bankens and
Charlotte Gallemore
Grant
Description: The purpose of Project Gateway is to create building–level leadership
capacity for school improvement and to elevate and sustain teacher and student
content knowledge and performance in PK-16+ education, through standards-based
learning supported by quality professional development. Project Gateway will
serve as a catalyst for the institutionalization of systemic, standards-based
reform in schools, districts and universities.
Participating districts and schools in year one of Project
Gateway are:
1.
2.
3.
Project
Gateway shall address the following priority:
Increase the academic performance of students with
disabilities through implementation of researched based reading interventions in inclusive settings.
The Region V
Consortium believes that the activities contained within Project Gateway
represent a major shift from what is currently taking place to create effective
building-level leadership capacity in tandem with staff development that is
aligned with the National Staff Development Council’s Revised Standards for
Staff Development (NSDC, 2001). In addition, emphasis on research-based reading
instruction and professional development consistent with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 will ensure high levels of learning for
all students. Job-embedded professional
development strategies for general and special education personnel included in
Project Gateway are 1) Principal Mentors and Instructional Coaches; 2) Analysis
of Aggregate and Subgroup Data; 3) Analysis of Student Work; 4) Focused Study
Groups; and 5) School/University Partnership.
Grant
Title: 8 (g) Local Teacher Quality
Funds
School
System:
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Wayne Savoy
Grant Amount: $72,625.00
Purpose: The 8(g) Local Teacher Quality
Block Grants program provides funds to assist in addressing teacher certification
shortage issues, professional development activities and leadership development
needs.
Grant
Title: Tiger and Technology Lab (TNT)
School:
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Kay Victorian
Grant Amount: $88,573.00
Purpose:
The purpose of TNT is to
increase academic achievement in the areas of mathematics, English Language
Arts, and social studies through the use of technology. The TNT Lab will better prepare 305 students
to improve academically through the use of instructional software and
technology.
Grant Title: ETC-Educational Technology, Content, and
Standards Project
School:
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant:
Grant Amount: $99,956.00
Purpose: The ETC project will provide state of the art
technology tools for 300 first, second and third graders to enhance the
standards-based curriculum. ETC will improve student achievement in mathematics
with the integration of technology and standards-based performance assessment
and instructional tasks. The objectives
focus on the improvement of student mathematical computational skills and
problem solving skills in open-ended math instructional tasks through the use
of standards-based instruction and assessment while providing opportunities for
direct interaction with the home.
Grant Title: K-3
Name of Persons
Applying for Grant: Dolores
Hicks-Phyllis Hess
Grant
Amount: $535,836.00
Purpose: The Louisiana K-3 Reading and Math
Initiative is to improve the reading and math skills of public school students
in kindergarten through third grade by providing comprehensive and ongoing
staff development to teachers so that they will learn and employ effective
strategies for reaching children with diverse learning styles and special
needs.
Grant
Title: LEAP 21 Tutoring Program
School
System:
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Dolores Hicks and Charlotte Gallemore
Grant Amount: $183,264.00
Schools: All Elementary and Middle Schools
Purpose: In an effort to increase the students' chances for
success, the Department of Education has designed the LEAP 21 Tutoring Program
to provide supplemental instruction for low-performing students. This program will provide the opportunity for
additional intense and focused instruction to the following groups of students:
·
4th - and 8th-grade students who have been
retained because of their having scored at the unsatisfactory level on LEAP 21
·
4th - and 8th- students whose 3rd -
and 7th - grade Iowa Test scores were below the 35th percentile
Grant
Title: After School For All
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Charlotte
Gallemore
Grant Amount: $170,000.00
Purpose: To provide an academic after school and
summer program emphasizing Mathematics while integrating English/Language Arts,
the Arts and Recreational activities.
Four school sites will participate with approximately 120 students in
the program. The program will recruit
and enroll at-risk students in grade 6-8 that scored below basic on the fourth
grade LEAP 21 in either mathematics or English/Language Arts,
have low NRT/CRT test scores or have been retained one or more years.
Grant
Title: Community Technology Centers Program
Grant
Amount: $351,656.00
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Sheryl
Abshire
Grant Description: The MASTER (Multiple
Application Strategies and Technology Educational Resources) Plan will increase
digital inclusion by promoting guidance and education that supports community
members who come from technologically disadvantaged households. These offerings will increase digital inclusion
by promoting guidance and education, supporting approximately 3,000 members of
the community who come from underserved, technologically disadvantaged
households. The Calcasieu Parish School
System, in conjunction with the
The
centers are located:
·
C & I Building on 600 South Shattuck Street next to the Ralph
Clifton Reynaud 21st Century Community Center (North)
·
Educational Resource Center at Simon Properties Prien
Lake Mall (South)
Grant Title: 8(g) Statewide Distributive Learning
Network
Schools: De Quincy High, Starks High, Lake
Charles-Boston High,
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Bill Jongbloed
Grant Amount: $ 13,875.00
Purpose: The goal of the Statewide Distance Learning Network
(SDLN) is to improve student achievement by providing students and teachers the
opportunity to access needed courses and appropriate curriculum and enrichment
programs utilizing telecommunications systems. Students are provided access to
BESE-approved core curriculum courses required for University admission,
Louisiana Tuition Assistance Plan, TOPS, and Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
The current modes of distance education include tele
learning, satellite, compressed videoconferencing, and online web-based courses
via the
Grant
Title: Education Excellence Fund
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Dolores Hicks, Charlotte
Gallemore, Bill Jongbloed
Grant
Amount: $265,980.00
Purpose: The Education Excellence Fund supports the LINCS
grant in providing content leaders that work with teachers in the classrooms of
29 elementary, middle, and high schools to improve student mathematics skills school-wide. The goal of the project
is to provide teachers and support staff with a variety of instrcut9ional
strategies designed to raise student achievement.
Grant
Title: LINCS-Learning-Intensive
Networking Communities for Success
Grant
Amount: $327,030.00
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Dolores
Hicks, Charlotte Gallemore, and Bill Jongbloed
Grant
Description: The purpose of LINCS is to
build and strengthen the ability of K-12 classroom teachers to design and
implement standards-based lessons into their daily instruction. This program will ultimately improve the
capabilities of K-12 students to perform at higher levels of competency as
demonstrated by increased performance on LEAP-21, the Iowa Tests of Basic
Skills and increased School Performance Scores.
Schools
Participating: (29 Schools)
Elementary
Schools include: Brentwood, Barbe,
Middle
Schools include: S.P. Arnett, DeQuincy Middle, LeBlanc, Molo,
Moss Bluff,
High Schools
include:
Grant
Title: LA 4
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Dolores Hicks-
Grant Amount: $3,118,125.00
Purpose: The LA 4 program’s purpose is to provide universal
pre-kindergarten classes and before-and-after school childcare to four-year-old
children who are eligible to enter public kindergarten the following year.
Program
components of the Early Childhood Development Program are:
§
Before-and-after care
§
Class “A” day care center standards for space
and facilities
§
Transportation
§
Collaboration with other governmentally funded providers of early
childhood education and care serving children residing within jurisdiction of
the LEA
The
overall objectives of the support services to children and families shall
promote:
§
Child Health
§
Child Development Knowledge, Parenting Skills, and Mental Health
Services
§
Adult Literacy and Employment Counseling
Participants
must be four years old by September 30th of the entering year. Each of the school sites shall host a maximum of (18) students (dependency on space/facilities
checklist), one (1) teacher, and one (1) paraprofessional per class.
Grant Title: Starting Points
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Dolores Hicks-
Grant Amount: $184,734.00 ~ $61,578/school
Purpose: Starting
Points is designed to improve the kindergarten readiness skills of children
eligible to enter kindergarten the following year and who are at risk of being
insufficiently ready for the regular school program, based on screening
results.
School Participating: College Oaks Elementary, E.K. Key Elementary,
and Oak Park Elementary.
Grant Title: 8 (g) Student Enhancement Program
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Dolores Hicks-
Grant Amount: $403,998.17 ~ $66,333/school
Purpose: 8(g) Student
Enhancement Program is designed to improve the kindergarten readiness skills of
children eligible to enter kindergarten the following year and who are at risk
of being insufficiently ready for the regular school program, based on
screening results.
School Participating: Fairview Elementary, J. J. Johnson Elementary,
Western Heights, Henry Heights, Clfiton Elementary,
and D. S. Perkins
Grant
Title: 21st
School:
Grant Amount: FY 2003-2004 $6,295,240.56
Name of Persons Applying for
Grant: Charlotte Gallemore
Purpose: To provide a comprehensive program for students, their families, and
the community members that address the educational, health, social services,
cultural, and recreational needs of the community that will provide "safe
havens" for students, their families, and the community.
Goal
1 of the
Plant a Seed Project is to provide activities that offer significant
expanded learning opportunities for students and their families in the
community that contribute to academic achievement and reduced delinquent
behavior.
Goal
2 of the
Grant
Title: Teaching American History Grant Program
Grant
Amount: FY 2003-2004 $310,770.05
Name
of Persons Applying for Grant: Dolores
Hicks, Charlotte Gallemore, and Bill Jongbloed
Grant
Description: The
purpose of “The
Teaching American History” Grant program will support programs to raise student
achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation
of American History.
The
objectives of the project are:
·
Provide American History teachers with the tools that will help them to
empower their students to become independent, responsible, confident, excited
researchers and learners of
·
Upgrade strategies for developing higher order thinking from simply
recalling facts to sharing a wealth of information through a variety of student
generated products
·
Raise student achievement in American History by upgrading the teaching
strategies and techniques of the district's American History teachers.
The project supports an
assortment of unique and exciting partnerships and activities that include the
most current and successful teaching strategies and techniques. Summer institutes and workshops will provide
participants with classroom ready lesson plans, teaching materials, tours,
hands-on classes, demonstrations, and field trips that will add to the learning
experience of American History teachers and also enhance the learning
opportunities for students. As a result
of these research based methods for improving the
quality of instruction, teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of
American History will improve student achievement.
Target
Population: Approximately 150 teachers
·
Fifth Grade Teachers of American History
·
Eighth Grade Teachers of American History
·
Eleventh Grade Teachers of American History