Title II-A: Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) Grant Program (Montana)

 
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    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Montana Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education (OCHE)

    Summary

    The purpose of the Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) Grant program is to ensure highly qualified teachers and principals are in high-need middle school and high schools. Title II, Part A legislation provides state education agencies with the flexibility to use these funds creatively to address challenges to teacher quality. Grant projects must provide high-qualified professional development. Professional development includes, but is not limited to, activities that:
    • Improve and increase teachers' knowledge of academic subjects and enable teachers to become highly qualified;
    • Are an integral part of broad school wide and district wide educational improvement plans;
    • Give teachers and principals the knowledge and skills to help students meet challenging state academic standards;
    • Improve classroom management skills;
    • Are sustained, intensive, and classroom focused and are not one-day or short-term workshops;
    • Advance teacher understanding of effective instruction strategies that are based on scientifically based research, and
    • Are developed with extensive participation of teachers, principals, parents, and administration.
     

    History of Funding

    Previous awards can be viewed on the OCHE website at http://mus.edu/che/arsa/TitleII/TitleII_currentproposals.asp

    Additional Information

    The priority for this grant is to support programs that provide accessible professional development, at little or no cost to program participants, for teachers seeking to be qualified to teach concurrent enrollment courses. Proposals must meet each of the following:
    • Support the training, development, recruitment, and/or retention of concurrent enrollment educators in rural, low performing, and/or high-need public school districts throughout the state of Montana at all grade levels and in all disciplines.
    • Create options for innovative convenient, accessible, affordable, distance delivery of graduate, undergraduate content, and specified training necessary for educators seeking content for concurrent enrollment in content areas identified as needed. Key considerations in evaluating amounts requested are institutional financial support and the relative cost effectiveness of the proposals submitted in terms of the number of participants served, the cost per participants, priorities and assurances of participation by school districts.
    Grant projects must:
    • Show evidence that it is research based.
    • Develop and maintain a significant and equitable partnership involving: o one institution of higher education, including its school of education AND one school of arts and sciences; and o instructors from at least one k-12 school identified as rural, high-need, or low performing.
    • Develop a project that contributes to increasing the number of teachers in the state qualified to deliver on-site dual enrollment (concurrent enrollment).
    • Develop a project that offers accessible and convenient professional development necessary (in the form of graduate and undergraduate courses, as well as training) needed for teachers to meet the educational qualifications for delivering concurrent enrollment.
    • Develop a project that focuses on helping a high-need, rural, minority-serving, and/or low performing school ensure its teachers are qualified to deliver dual enrollment courses on-site (concurrent enrollment) and have the knowledge and teaching skills they need to help all students achieve via this educational program with demonstrated value.

    Contacts

    OCHE Staff

    OCHE Staff
    2500 E. Broadway Street | P.O. Box 203201
    Helena, MT
    (406) 444-6570
    (406) 444-1469
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are Montana school districts that are in high-need.

    Deadline Details

    Proposals must be submitted October 28, 2016 at 5:00 PM Mountain Standard Time (MST).

    Award Details

    Approximately $330,000 is available in funding for 2017. Between three (3) and six (6) awards are expected to be granted. Award amounts will vary.

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