[Okgrantsmanship] Regents' 2010 Teacher Quality Sate Grants program RFP

[Mason, Linda]

From: Sarani, Saeed 
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:42 AM



Good morning.

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education invites applications via a request for proposal (RFP).  The RFP is now posted on our websites: http://www.okhighered.org/itq/2010.shtml <http://www.okhighered.org/itq/2010.shtml> .  Title II, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), authorizes the Highly Qualified Teachers and Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Program. The goal of the program is to ensure that all students have highly qualified teachers; that is, teachers with the subject-matter knowledge and teaching skills necessary to help all children achieve high academic standards, regardless of individual learning styles or needs. Also, as NCLB clearly states, the purpose of teachers' professional development is to design activities that increase teacher content knowledge, teacher effectiveness, and teacher conceptual understanding in the subject areas they are teaching. 

Approximately $900,000.00 will be awarded to eligible partnerships to support innovative and effective continuing professional education that improves; (1) teacher content knowledge in mathematics, science, or reading and language arts, (2) teacher instructional practices designed to support effective teaching, and (3) teacher knowledge about data-driven decision-making processes in the classroom. Projects may also incorporate establishing peer-teaching or co-teaching among project participants and strategies to help ELL, ESL, and low income students integrating math, science and reading/language arts content and pedagogy. Two award types will be available this year; Award A and Award B.  The State Regents intend to select multiple qualified proposals for Award A and Award B.  

Grant Program Eligible Partnerships: The partnerships will use the funds to conduct professional development activities in reading/language arts, mathematics, or science.  A partnership must include, at a minimum: (1) a private or public institution of higher education (IHE) and the division of the institution that prepares teachers and principals; (2) a school of arts and sciences that awards baccalaureate degrees; AND (3) a high-need local education agency (LEA). The education department (Partner #1) and the school of arts and sciences (Partner #2) may be housed within the same IHE.  A high-need LEA is defined by the U.S. Department of Education as: 

*	(A) a LEA that serves not fewer than 10,000 children from families with incomes below the poverty line OR for which not less than 20 percent of the children served by the agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line,  

	AND 

*	(B) a LEA for which there is a high percentage of teachers not teaching in the academic subjects or grade levels that the teachers were trained to teach, OR for which there is a high percentage of teachers with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification or licensing

A Technical Assistance Meeting will be held on Sept. 3, 2009, at the offices of the State Regents in Oklahoma City from 10 a.m. to noon.  We look forward to reviewing your applications.  Feel free to forward this email to others in your department who might be interested to apply.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Good luck!

Saeed

 

Saeed Sarani, M.S., M.B.A.

Curriculum Advisor, Teacher Education and 

Minority Teacher Recruitment Center

Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

655 Research Parkway, Suite 200

Oklahoma City, OK  73104-3603

405-225-9192

ssarani at osrhe.du <mailto:73104-3603│405-225-919│ssarani at osrhe.du> 

 

 

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