ESU 8 Fall Title I Meeting Deb Wragge Professional Development, Title I Contact [email protected]...

ESU 8 Fall Title I Meeting

Deb WraggeProfessional Development, Title I Contact

[email protected]

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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Purpose & Goals• The Purpose of this meeting is:

– to discuss and clarify the implementation of Title I programs

• The Goals are:– Operating a Title I Program using the

Guidelines: The Musts and Must Nots– Involving Parents beyond the Basic

Involvement Activities

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Agenda• 9:00-9:10 – Welcome and Introductions• 9:10-10:15 – Title I 101 & Discussion• 10:15-10:25 – Break• 10:25-12:00 – More Title I 101 with more

Discussion• 12:00-12:30 – Working Lunch on Site• 12:30-1:45 – Parent Involvement• 1:45-2:00 – Additional Questions and Wrap Up

ESU 8 Title I Wiki

• One can always access via the ESU 8 Homepage:– Departments → Staff Development → Staff

Development Wiki → Title I (Found as you scroll down the left Blue Menu)

• Direct Access: http://esu8-staff-development.wikispaces.com/Title+I

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http://esu8-staff-development.wikispaces.com/Title+I



Program Description• Title I, Part A (Title I) of the

ESEA Act, as amended provides financial assistance to LEAs and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.

• Funding Sources to the LEA:– Basic Grants– Concentration Grants– Targeted Grants– Education Finance Incentive

Grants (EFIG)

• Additional Funding Sources:– Neglected (Reserve)– Reallocation

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2013-14 Allocations

http://esu8-staff-development.wikispaces.com/Title+I+101+&+Strategies+to+Enhance+Parent+Involvement

Spending of the Dollars Allocated

• Allocations continue to dwindle• Allowable Title I Expenditures

– Federal Funds used for Prizes, Incentives or Reward

– Expenditure items which always require supporting documentation

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Time and Effort Logs

• Any person who is paid from Federal Funds must maintain a Time and Effort Log.– NOTE: Required for every staff member in a

Schoolwide Program paid with any source of Federal Funds

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• Logs must be signed – By the employee – AND their supervisor

• Verifications:– Monthly are required if paid from multiple cost

objectives and the schedule fluctuates– Semiannual are required if being paid from only

one source or working on a single cost objective– AND…

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New for 2013-14: Verifications• If an employee has a set schedule, even if

working on multiple cost objectives, s/he may

complete semiannual verifications. – Verifications (schedule) must be signed and kept on

file.

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2 Formats of Title I ProgramsTargeted Assisted

• Model provides additional educational services to identified “Title I children” who are low-achieving or at risk of low-achievement.

Schoolwide• Model funds a

comprehensive school plan to upgrade all the instruction in a high-poverty school without distinguishing between “eligible” and “ineligible” children.

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2013-14 ESU 8 Title I ProjectsTargeted Assisted

• Chambers PS• Battle Creek PS• Lynch PS• NE Unified #1 (Orchard,

Clearwater, Verdigre)• Osmond PS• Pierce PS• Stuart PS• West Holt PS• Wheeler Central PS

Schoolwide• Elgin PS: Elem & HS• Elkhorn Valley PS: Elem• Madison PS: Elem & MS• Neligh-Oakdale PS: Elem• Newman Grove PS: Elem• Norfolk PS: 5 Elem Bldgs• O’Neill PS: Elem• Plainview PS: Elem• Stanton CS: Elem• West Boyd SD: Elem

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Highly Qualified Staff (Teachers)

• Building principals must annually certify in writing all teachers in the building are highly qualified: Attestation Form

– Need NOT be sent to NDE Title I Office. – DOES need to be kept on file in the school building.

• Reviewed during ESEA/NCLB Monitoring visits.

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Highly Qualified Staff (Paras)

• Prior to working with students, Title I Instructional paras MUST meet ESES/NCLB requirements.

– Targeted Assisted Programs • Includes any para funded by Title I

– Schoolwide Programs • Includes ALL instructional paras

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Parent Notification• Parents of students may request, and the district

will provide to the parents, information regarding the professional qualifications of the student’s

teacher(s). – Notification a parents can request this information

must be shared annually. – May be located in the schools’ handbooks,

newsletters, etc.

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Non-Regulatory Guidance for Title I Fiscal Issues (February 2008)

• Maintenance of Effort • NDE determines and maintains this requirement

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– Comparability• The district uses State and local funds to provide

services in Title I schools that are at least comparable to the services provided in schools that are not receiving Title I funds.

• If the LEA serves all of its schools with Title I funds, the LEA must use State and local funds to provide services that are substantially comparable in each

Title I school.

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– Supplement, Not Supplant• Targeted Assistance Schools

–An LEA may use Title I funds» only to supplement

– In no case may Title I funds be used» to supplant--i.e., take the place of—funds

from non-Federal sources. –An LEA is not required to provide Title I

services using a particular instructional method or in a particular instructional setting

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• Provide programs that do not remove children from the regular classroom during regular school hours for Title I services and, instead, provide extended learning time –e.g., extended school year, before- and

after-school, and summer programs etc. are per se supplemental.

• LEAs and schools are encouraged to be creative in the way they provide services to Title I children

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– Carryover• ESEA limits from one fiscal year’s allocation

– Not more than 15 percent of the total Title I, Part A funds

– May not use carryover funds to provide services in a school ineligible for Title I

• An LEA has considerable discretion in handling carryover funds.

– Adding carryover funds to the LEA's current-year allocation and distributing them to participating areas and schools

– Allocating to schools with the highest concentrations of poverty

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– Consolidating Funds in Schoolwide Programs• Allows a school in which 40 percent or

more of its students are from low-income families to use its Title I funds, along with other Federal, State, and local funds:

– to operate a program to upgrade the entire educational program to improve the academic performance of all students, particularly the lowest-achieving students

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Break Time

• 10 Minute Break

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To operate a Schoolwide Program

• A school must:– Have a poverty level of 40% or more– Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of

the entire school – Develop a comprehensive plan which meets the

requirement – A Listing of the 2013-14 NE Schoolwide Programs



• And is not required:– to identify specific students as eligible to

participate– to demonstrate the services provided with

Title I funds are supplemental to services that would otherwise be provided


This is in contrast to a targeted assistance program, in which Title I funds may be used only for supplementary educational services for children identified as being most at risk of not meeting State standards.


The underlying purpose of the schoolwide approach is to enable schools with high numbers of at-risk children to integrate the services they provide to their children from Federal, State, and local resources.


The LEA or school is not required:• to maintain separate fiscal accounting

records by program – which identify the specific activities supported

by those particular funds

in order to demonstrate that the activities are allowable under the program.

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• Each school, however,– must identify the specific programs being

consolidated, and – the amount each program contributes to the

consolidation – and maintain records that demonstrate that

the schoolwide program addresses the intent and purposes of each of the Federal programs whose funds are being consolidated to support the schoolwide program.


What is the purpose of the Comprehensive Plan?

– To assist a schoolwide program school effectively design and implement a comprehensive plan to upgrade the entire educational program in the school based on the school’s needs identified through its comprehensive needs assessment


What are the benefits?

• By consolidating funds from Federal, State, and local sources a school can address its needs using all of the resources available to it


The school’s comprehensive schoolwide plan

• must describe how it will upgrade its educational program relative to the State standards.

• Strategies for upgrading a school’s educational program must include – instructional strategies based on scientifically based research that

strengthen the core academic program,– increase the amount and quality of learning time, – address the needs of the lowest-achieving children – strategies to attract and retain highly qualified teachers,– provide high-quality professional development, – increase parental involvement.

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How can a schoolwide program demonstrate that it supplements, and does not supplant, State and local

funds?

• An LEA should be able to demonstrate, through its regular procedures for distributing funds and resources, that it distributes State and local funds fairly and equitably to all its schools–including schoolwide program schools–without regard to whether those schools are receiving Federal education funds.

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Non-Public Participation:• Every public school district in Nebraska having one or

more nonpublic school located within the district’s geographic boundaries requires every district receiving grants for federal program(s) must provide:– equitable services and meet the needs of eligible

Nonpublic School students and/or teachers and other education personnel.

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Working Lunch

What – Questions,– Concerns,– Discussion, or Further Discussion

do you have after this morning’s presentation?


Parent Involvement

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Title I Parental Involvement Requirements

• Six Types of Parental Involvement • Title I Parental Involvement Policy• Title I School--Parent Compact• Title I Annual Parent Meeting (at least one per year)• Assessing the Parental Involvement Component• Providing Opportunities for Training Parents• Title I Annual Review Meeting• Informing Parents of Student Eligibility • Informing Parents of Student Progress


Research shows that…• No matter the socioeconomic status, when

parents are involved, students are more likely to …– Earn better grades -- Attend school regularly– Obtain better test scores -- Have better social skills– Earn credits -- Graduate– Pass courses -- Continue their education– Be promoted to the next grade -- Adapt to school

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A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002).

Common Forms of Parental Involvement

• Assisting with homework• Classroom volunteers• Field trip chaperone• Member of the PTA or other Parent Organization• Letters sent home with students• Handbooks• Conferences

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“If a school uses the same old approach to involve families and community, it will get the same old lackluster results.”

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (2000) Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (2000)

Six Types of Parental Involvement

• Parenting• Communicating• Learning at Home• Volunteering• Decision Making• Collaborating with Community


Resources to Assist:

• Beyond the Bake Sale by Anne T. Henderson – shows how to form essential partnerships and

how to make them work– how to build strong collaborative relationships – offers practical advice for improving

interactions between parents and teachers

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A Toolkit for Title I Parental Involvement by

providing information to those who are implementing Title I Part A parental involvement provisions.

Providing two types of information:• Explanations for Title I, Part A notification and

involvement provisions• Possible tools


Title I Parent Policies • Must be reviewed annually and updated

as needed. – These policies are to be shared with parents of

participating students—this means ALL students in a Schoolwide project.

– Parent policies are required• for the district AND each Title I building.

– Though it is called a policy, Board approval is not required.

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School--Parent Compact

• Must have a written school--parent compact• Must include all necessary information• Plan to distribute the compact to parents every

year• Update the compact each year

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Parent Compacts• Schoolwide Project: To be signed by all parents,

all students, and the students’ teacher. – Schoolwide projects may include the compact in the Parent

Handbook – The compact should be

• removed from the handbook, • signed by the appropriate parties, • returned to the school, and kept on file.

• Title I Targeted Assistance Schools: Signatures by parents and participating students are optional, but strongly encouraged.

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Annual Parent Meeting

• Preferably, held in the beginning of the school year

• Describes – The Title I program– How the Title I students will be assessed– How the parents will be kept informed– Parental involvement opportunities

• Document the meeting with minutes/agenda/sign-in sheets


Annual Assessment of Parental Involvement

• At the end of each school year• Gives parents an opportunity to voice how

effective and realistic the parental involvement plan was

• Must be documented• Use the results of the assessment at the

Annual Review Meeting


The Importance of Parental Involvement

“Studies show when parents and community members are engaged in schools, students perform better, attendance increases and dropout rates are lower.”


•Questions, Comments and/or Discussion


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