By: Monica Schoonard and Joy Porter
Grant Proposal for C-L-K Public Schools
(This is a basic outline containing a proposal for a grant to build more staff development activities and opportunities to better the educational outcomes of C-L-K Schools)
Grant Total: $90,000
The grant total is based on a 1-2 year program.
Problem grant is addressing:
C-L-K Schools is experiencing a major decrease in advanced technology that the educational world is seeking to pursue. In this area, C-L-K has a vital problem in providing and presenting the technology. There is a gap between the technological devices schools use and the ones that our students use at home Fishman (2006). The Trends Update Report from Speak Up (2009) says that students acknowledge that they have to “power down” when they go to school and then “power back up” when they go back home. It seems that schools need to make some major moves forward in the uses of technology in educational settings. With this being the case, C-L-K is seeking a grant proposal solution to the problems.
1) Staff Development training and evaluation in the advanced technology – teaching, usage, and presentation.
2) Each and every student needs the opportunity to experience and learn these new technologies that are becoming a part of their futures more and more. With our staff development solutions in this area, students will have these opportunities made available to them without any drawbacks.
Reason for Grant:
C-L-K Public Schools is seeking a grant for more opportunities and activities on staff development. This will not only include training and review sessions, but it will also contain meetings, retreats and workshops, to better our staff in bringing about their full potential and teaching techniques and skills to educate our students.
This grant has been researched throughout the last two years - seeing the affects of low staff development in the technological area. Fishman (2006) says that the best way to increase student learning is through professional development opportunities. According to TechLearning (2007), only 17% of professional development directors believe that their program is prepared to use technology to enhance student learning. However, 73% of superintendents think professional development is extremely important in using technology.
Though it has been researched and evaluated, there have also been techniques used by all the staff members that need assessment which comply with the demands of the educational technological world. This makes our proposal all the more important.
The staff development needs focus on student learning through the use of technology. It should give teachers time to practice and get comfortable with technology that they are not comfortable using (Fishman, 2006). These professional development sessions that teach technology need to integrate curriculum standards as well as use data to make decisions in student learning (TechLearning, 2007).
This area in educational, concerning only the students, needs to be addressed and progressed as soon as can be. The students learning, interests, efforts, and futures where this technological area will take them are at upmost concern. Though it will be based on staff development in providing these technological opportunities for the students, it effects the students the most because the development of the staff only pertains bettering their skills so the students can also better their own where they can. It will be made available for them through our staff.
Purpose for Grant:
(The purpose of this grant is based ONLY on staff development opportunities and activities, as well as evaluation, which will allow our staff to focus on this technological area and adequately present it and provide its usage.)
This grant for staff development in the C-L-K schools is an endeavor to enhance the teaching skills, efforts, and instructional approach of our educators. We will do this in an attempt to provide updated information as well as professional advisers from around the world. Activities and opportunities will take affect for each staff “teaching” personnel.
This grant will also contain development for the administration of the C-L-K schools. They take effect on the learning outcomes of the students as much as the educators and we look at this as just important.
In using tools to development the administration as well as the educators, we seek to be able and distribute new, and old, techniques and skills to provide accurate information to the students.
In this case, the grant works to help “each” and “every” student of C-L-K schools.
TECHNOLOGICAL EFFORT:
In seeking a grant for staff development opportunities and activities for each and every member of our C-L-K schools, we also seek to advance, advise and focus on the area of new technology.
Because newer technologies are opening up widely, and rapidly, in education today, we yearn to focus much of our time and efforts on our staff learning and presenting in these areas as well.
Educating our students to the 100% in this area is so vastly imperative to where it will benefit them the most.
This is becoming a far greater demand on our students today, and the grant will allow our staff to be trained, prepared, and competent for using these new technologies to educate today.
With this grant, our students will be ready and prepared for their futures.
NEEDS /AMOUNTS:
These amounts and needs grow in detail but it gives a clear idea of where we are looking for development progress.
This is a grouping list of what we need to make the development flow smoothly. These groupings include the areas for activities and opportunities that will be provided to all the staff of C-L-K.
As of this point, these are basic listings. Again, this grant proposal is the presentation of a design based on a 1-2 year program. Evaluation techniques will take place following the programs. These techniques have yet to be published, but they are noted to take place on an every 6 month basis. – They will be simply structured in the beginning to see if they also are working toward the staff development.
- Staff Training - $25,000 (includes evaluation procedures)
- Set-up and Clean-up Equipment - $15,000
- Consultants - $15,500
- Substitutes - $35, 800 (Needed often)
- Educational Tech. Activities – $38,400 (includes some evaluation procedures as well)
- Guest Advisors - $10,000
- Equipment/Tools - $13,000
SPECIFICS:
There are some groupings not listed because of the fact we are not aware of them. With everything in education, new things happen, so we will definitely need to consider this area of the grant.
References:
Fishman (2006). It's not about the technology. Retrieved January 21, 2010 from http://tcrecord.org.
Tech and Learning (2008). Technology in U.S schools: Overview on key trends. Retrieved January 20, 2001 from http://www.techlearning.com/PrintableArticle.aspx?id=7568.
Tempel, Eugene R. Hank Rosso’s Achieving Excellence in Fundraising. 2nd Ed. 2003.
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