(HISTORICAL) Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) State Grants Program (Nebraska)

 
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    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education

    Summary

    The purpose of this program is to increase student academic achievement by helping to ensure that highly qualified teachers, paraprofessionals, and principals have access to sustained and intensive high quality professional development in core academic subjects. The program provides grants to partnerships comprised of Nebraska institutions of higher education and high-need local educational agencies for projects to improve the skills of teachers, paraprofessionals, and principals.

    The following types of activities are allowed:
    • A. Professional Development activities related to content knowledge in core academic subjects, including the use of computer related technology. Core academic subjects are English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography. Activities can:
      • 1. Ensure that teachers and highly qualified paraprofessionals, and, if appropriate, principals, have subject matter knowledge in the academic subjects that teachers teach, or
      • 2. Ensure that principals have the instructional leadership skills that will help the principal work effectively with teachers to help students master core academic subjects.
    • B. Professional Development activities related to state academic content and student academic achievement standards and state assessments. Activities can:
      • 1. Ensure that teachers, highly qualified paraprofessionals, and principals are able to use the standards and assessments to improve instructional practices and improve academic achievement, or
      • 2. Intensively prepare an individual who will return to the school to provide instruction related to the professional development in B.1.
    • C. Professional Development activities related to improving teaching and learning at low-performing schools (see 2014-2015 state of the schools report – Federal accountability, PLAS http://reportcard.education.ne.gov for schools identified by the Nebraska Department of Education as low-performing). Activities should provide assistance to local education agencies, and the teachers and staff of each agency, for sustained, high-quality professional development activities.
     
    The Commission is most interested in projects that address one of the following:
    • A. Providing professional development for teachers teaching in K-12 academic shortage areas, especially those who do not currently hold an endorsement in the subject area in which they are teaching. The shortage areas for the 2016-2017 academic year that are applicable to this grant are: world languages, sciences, math, language arts, music, and art. This priority also includes special education teachers who are required to teach content, but are not endorsed in the content area.
    • B. Projects that are new, creative, or innovative and, ideally, not previously or recently funded through this grant.
    • C. Improving teaching and learning at low-performing schools. (A low-performing school is not necessarily the same as a high-need LEA. Both would be required for this priority.)
     

    History of Funding

    Previous recipients can be viewed on the program website.

    Additional Information

    The following criteria will be used in the evaluation of proposals:
    • Demonstrated Need - in addition to basic eligibility of high-need LEA (20 points);
    • Plan of Action (20 points);
    • Applicant's Commitment and Capacity (5 points);
    • Budget and Cost Effectiveness (20 points);
    • Long-Term Impact (25 points); and
    • Evaluation Plan (10 points) - an external evaluator is encouraged, but not required.
     
    Other characteristics of proposals may be considered in making awards, which may include:
    • The number of partnerships which receive awards;
    • The geographic distribution of the partnerships;
    • Other appropriate considerations.

    Contacts

    Kathleen Fimple

    Kathleen Fimple
    P.O. Box 95005
    Lincoln, NE 68509-5005
    (402) 471-0030
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Federal regulations for this program require that funds be awarded only to partnerships that consist of:
    • An institution of higher education and the division of the institution that prepares teachers and principals;
    • A school of arts and sciences; and
    • A high-need local educational agency.

    In addition to the required three partners, partnerships may also include one or more of the following: other local educational agencies (including those that are not classified as high-need), elementary or secondary schools, educational service agencies, nonprofit educational organizations, other institutions of higher education, nonprofit cultural organizations, entities carrying out pre-kindergarten programs, teacher organizations, principal organizations, or businesses.

    Deadline Details

    Applications must be submitted by November 8, 2016. This is the last year that Improving Teacher Quality grants will be offered.

    Award Details

    Approximately $285,000 is anticipated to be available in total funding for FY16-17. Awards typically range between $40,000 and $70,000. All projects must be completed by August 1, 2018. Since the federal program is ending, there will be no extensions.

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