From mmillican at osrhe.edu Tue Aug 6 09:56:02 2002 From: mmillican at osrhe.edu (Millican, Marvanna) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] 2003 Summer Academy RFP (Request For Proposals) Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C49291010C32@ms.osrhe.edu> Dear 2002 Eisenhower Project Directors: Some of you may be interested in the Summer Academy RFP or know others who are so please forward to those interested. The new Eisenhower RFP which will be known as NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001 STATE GRANT PROGRAM, TITLE II, PART A, will be available very soon, hopefully before the end of the month. The 2003 Summer Academy RFP (Request for Proposals) has been posted on the State Regents' website. (www.okhighered.org) The direct link is: http://www.okhighered.org/grants/home.html. A letter was sent to your president with this information. A question-and-answer workshop relating to the Summer Academies Program (Submission of Proposals) has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 10, 2002. It will be held in the State Regents' Conference Room (2nd floor at 655 Research Parkway) from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. As well as the workshop, we have set up a list serve that will be used to answer questions and make suggestions related to the RFP. Please encourage any faculty interested in submitting a proposal to subscribe to the list serve on this website ( - Name of list serve: SA-RFP). Please forward this information to any other faculty and/or staff who may be interested in submitting a proposal. Closing date for 2003 proposals is Tuesday, October 1, 2002. Several changes have been made to the RFP; some are highlighted below: * Proposals are to be submitted via e-mail. * No proposals will be accepted in hard copy. * Only 2 pages will be required in hard copy - Statement of Assurances and an endorsement letter. * The contact person for this next year has changed - Mr. Nathan Gann will be your new contact. Please submit any questions and proposals to him. (ngann@osrhe.edu) If Nathan is unavailable, I will still be able to assist you. Please take careful note of all bolded or capitalized wording within the RFP as the wording is new or it is very important in the submission of proposals. Marvanna Millican Coordinator of System Advancement and Economic Development Projects Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 mmillican@osrhe.edu From mmillican at osrhe.edu Wed Aug 14 10:04:05 2002 From: mmillican at osrhe.edu (Millican, Marvanna) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] Summer Academy Proposal Question and Answer Workshop Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C49291010C50@ms.osrhe.edu> CLARIFICATION: The question-and-answer workshop relating to the Summer Academies Program (Submission of Proposals) has been scheduled for Wednesday, TUESDAY, September 10, 2002. It will be held in the State Regents' Conference Room (2nd floor at 655 Research Parkway) from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Marvanna Millican Coordinator of System Advancement and Economic Development Projects Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 mmillican@osrhe.edu From mmillican at osrhe.edu Wed Aug 14 10:19:54 2002 From: mmillican at osrhe.edu (Millican, Marvanna) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] ONE MORE TIME Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C49291E594@ms.osrhe.edu> I did a strikethrough on the word Wednesday in the message before, but it did not come though on the listserve. THE WORKSHOP WILL BE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. CLARIFICATION: The question-and-answer workshop relating to the Summer Academies Program (Submission of Proposals) has been scheduled for TUESDAY, September 10, 2002. It will be held in the State Regents' Conference Room (2nd floor at 655 Research Parkway) from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Marvanna Millican Coordinator of System Advancement and Economic Development Projects Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 mmillican@osrhe.edu From sweinand at osrhe.edu Fri Aug 16 08:34:19 2002 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] NCLB RFP is posted (formerly IKE) Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C492910102A8@ms.osrhe.edu> The RFP has been posted. http://www.okhighered.org/grants/home.html Please share this message with other interested faculty. Stacey Weinand From sweinand at osrhe.edu Fri Aug 16 10:00:56 2002 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] NCLB RFP is posted (formerly IKE) Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C492910102AC@ms.osrhe.edu> The RFP has been posted. http://www.okhighered.org/grants/home.html Please share this message with other interested faculty. Stacey Weinand _______________________________________________ NCLB-RFP mailing list NCLB-RFP@lists.onenet.net http://lists.onenet.net/mailman/listinfo/nclb-rfp From sweinand at osrhe.edu Tue Aug 20 12:00:31 2002 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] Scientifically Based Research Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C492910102D6@ms.osrhe.edu> Here is an article that came my way.... Just what is "SCIENTIFICALLY BASED RESEARCH," as called for in the No Child Left Behind Act? Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) devotes its summer newsletter to this issue. http://www.ecs.org/html/newsMedia/e-Connection.asp#gr From sweinand at osrhe.edu Mon Aug 26 14:35:22 2002 From: sweinand at osrhe.edu (Weinand, Stacey) Date: Tue Mar 23 20:16:41 2004 Subject: [Ike] No Child Left Behind article Message-ID: <21500A334B01C84D89FE28F0F8C49291010333@ms.osrhe.edu> Here is an article that is a good summary of the NCLB Act as it relates to schools. It's testing time for schools By JAY COOPER World Staff Writer 8/25/2002 Tulsa World Federal accountability law applies exam scores to measure progress School administrators will pay close attention to standardized tests this year as school districts prepare for the first year of accountability under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. "(Test scores) were not on the radar screen like it is now. This is the year where you have a performance target," said Kathy Dodd, the director of assessment for Union Public Schools. Test scores from last school year gave schools a baseline for how much they need to improve, but this is the first year that districts must show improvement -- or be held accountable. Each state must come up with its own way to measure a school's progress. Each state's method needs federal approval. The systems will be based predominantly on test scores. Oklahoma will submit its proposed measurement system in January. Officials at the State Department of Education have said the state's system will most likely be the same as the state's Academic Performance In dex - which was released last year to give schools a way to measure performance and improvement. State Assistant Superintendent Katie Dunlap said using the Academic Performance Index was "the closest we have in Oklahoma for what they're wanting." Although federal guidelines for measuring adequate progress have yet to be completed, they will be based on test scores and other statistics from last school year. The state's system for measuring accountability will be based on several test scores, including core curriculum tests in math and reading for both fifth- and eighth-graders, the third grade Stanford 9 test, and end-of-instruction tests in English II and algebra for high-schoolers and the ACT test. Scores from all of those tests will be indexed together to measure academic progress each year. Attendance, graduation and dropout rates and college remediation rates will also figure slightly into the equation. Eventually, test scores from all grades -- third through eighth -- will be used to measure adequate yearly progress. Schools' test results for this year will have to show improvement from last year's scores. The amount of improvement needed varies among schools. The No Child Left Behind Act calls for all schools to have all of its students scoring "proficient" on state-mandated tests by 2012. Oklahoma's core curriculum tests do not have a category labeled "proficient." Their categories are: "unsatisfactory," "limited knowledge," "satisfactory" and "advanced." Jennifer Morris, the state director for the Academic Performance Index, said scores of "satisfactory" or "advanced" would count as "proficient." Schools that performed well on tests last year have a smaller gap to close to get all of their students scoring "proficient," so less improvement will be expected from them each year. Schools that have not performed well on standardized tests will have a greater gap, so they will have to show more improvement each year. The target for the lower-performing schools is to improve their scores by 10 percent each year. Schools that do not show the expected improvement for two years in a row will go on the School Improvement List. A school on the list must provide transportation to other schools for students whose parents want them to switch schools. A school on the School Improvement List for a second year in a row must pay for support services such as after-school or weekend tutoring. If the school stays on the list for three years straight, the state will have the right to revise the curriculum or retrain the teachers. A fourth year on the list could mean a school would be restructured or closed. Some Oklahoma schools are on the school improvement list already because of a federal law that was passed before the No Child Left Behind Act became law. The earlier law, the 1994 Improving America Schools Act, started the focus on standards and assessment. It required states to set guidelines to determine whether a school needed to improve. In Oklahoma, schools labeled in need of improvement had 30 percent of their students scoring "unsatisfactory" on the math or reading portions of the state's core curriculum tests for two years in a row. The No Child Left Behind Act said that schools already on the improvement list from the earlier act would automatically be placed on the new list. Those schools will have to provide transportation to other schools this school year. Tulsa district schools on the list are Anderson, Bryant, Springdale and Mark Twain elementary schools, and Madison and Monroe middle schools. Tulsa Public Schools sent letters to parents of students in those schools July 29. "There have been a fairly large number of families that have expressed interest in moving (schools)," said Robert Nelson, the district's director of testing. Jay Cooper, World staff writer, can be reached at 581-8474 or via e-mail at jay.cooper@tulsaworld.com.