(HISTORICAL) Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) Grant Program (Kansas)

 
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    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Kansas Board of Regents

    Summary

    The purpose of the state grant program is to increase student achievement by helping ensure that highly qualified teachers, paraprofessionals and principals have access to sustained and intensive high quality professional development in core academic subjects.
     
    The focus of the 2016 Kansas Improving Teacher Quality Grant program is on providing high quality professional development projects that increase the academic achievement of all students. Funds will be used to improve teacher and/or principal knowledge to increase student achievement in meeting state academic content standards in the following area:
    • Using Kansas College and Career Readiness Core Standards to help students improve 21st Century Skills. Providing professional development activities that primarily concentrate on content areas and integrate the broad school-wide and district-wide educational improvement plans is imperative.
     
     
     

    History of Funding

    Previous recipients can be viewed on the program's website.

    Additional Information

    The following personnel may participate in grant activities:
    • Teachers currently teaching core academic subjects in Kansas public schools, charter schools, and private schools are eligible to participate in the grant activities. Teachers at the beginning of the summer project sessions who have contracted with an eligible school for fall teaching responsibilities in the topic area are considered in-service teachers. The following teachers are not eligible to participate in grant activities: teachers and discipline-area supervisors who do not have teaching responsibilities in the grant area topic, pre-service teachers and teachers not teaching in a classroom; and
    • States may also provide professional development for principals responsible for instructional leadership so they have knowledge of subject area matter and pedagogy to provide appropriate support for teachers in core academic subjects. To be eligible to participate in ITQ-funded projects, principals must be responsible for instructional leadership in the proposed topic area. Principals are eligible to participate only in those sessions that are designed specifically to meet their needs, and are not eligible to participate in sessions designed for teachers. For the purposes of Title II, Part A, an assistant principal is considered a principal.

    Contacts

    Connie Beene

    Connie Beene
    1000 SW Jackson Street, Suite 520
    Topeka, KS 66612-1368
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Federal regulations for this program specify that three partners collaborate. Those partners must be:
    1.  A four-year public or private higher education institution's (IHE) division that prepares teachers and principals;
    2. A four-year public or private higher education institution's school of arts and sciences; and
    3. A high-need local educational agency (LEA) must meet both poverty and teaching challenges. A high-need LEA is defined as a school district where at least 20% or 10,000 children served are from families below the poverty line, and for which there is a high percentage of teachers teaching outside their content area or with emergency, provisional, or temporary certification or licensing.
     
    While the program provides grants to partnerships comprised of IHEs and high-need LEAs, the grant application must be submitted by the IHE and the IHE must serve as the fiscal agent of record.
     
    Partnerships may also include one or more of the following:
    • Kansas public school districts that do not qualify as high-need;
    • Private K-12 schools;
    • Regional offices of education;
    • Community colleges;
    • Nonprofit educational organizations;
    • Another institution of higher education, a school of arts and sciences or the division that prepares teachers and principals within such an institution;
    • Nonprofit cultural organizations;
    • Entities carrying out pre-kindergarten programs;
    • Teacher organizations;
    • Principal organizations; or
    • Businesses

    Deadline Details

    The deadline to submit applications was January 15, 2016. This record is for historical purposes only.

    Award Details

    Approximately $450,000 is available in total funding. Awards range from $100,000 to $200,000 each.

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