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Grants and Other Financial Assistance Programs

FY2019 Fund Codes: 144/218

High Quality Instruction—Summer Planning Grants

Funds Allocated:$146,296 (State)     $52,844 (Federal)
Funds Requested:$199,137
Purpose: The purpose of this competitive grant program is to provide districts with funding to support teachers to deepen their understanding and implementation of high-quality instructional materials, methodologies and programs to support the revised 2017 English Language Arts-Literacy, 2017 Mathematics Curriculum Frameworks, and the 2016 Science and Technology/Engineering (STE) standards. Grant applications may take three paths:

Path 1. Planning for high-quality instructional materials
Path 2. Implementing high-quality instructional materials
Path 3. Piloting high-quality middle school STE instructional materials (OpenSciEd)

Number of Proposals Received:56
Number of Proposals Recommended:21
Number of Proposals Not Recommended:35
Result of Funding: Grant recipients proposed activities to support teacher-led professional development studying, implementing high-quality instructional materials, and participating in the Piloting program for OpenSciED. Districts are seeking to ensure that their curricular materials are aligned to our challenging state standards, and with good reason. Recent research has found that, in some cases, the adoption of high-quality instructional materials produced a larger effect on student learning than the effect of having an experienced teacher versus a novice teacher. For the context of this grant, high-quality instructional materials are defined as those that have been verified as aligned to rigorous college- and career-ready standards by a neutral third-party evaluator.

RecipientsAmounts
Fund Code 218 State 
Amherst Public Schools9,780
Athol-Royalston Regional School District9,941
Boston Public Schools (2 awards)28,000
Central Berkshire Regional School District9,620
Chelsea Public Schools8,000
Fall River Public Schools20,000
Fitchburg Public Schools and Leominster Public Schools (Joint award)10,000
Haverhill Public Schools9,960
Holyoke Public Schools9,995
Lynn Public Schools13,950
Northampton Public Schools6,300
North Brookfield Public Schools5,755
Winchendon Public Schools4,995
Total State Funds:$146,296
Fund Code 144 Federal 
Barnstable Public Schools$4,500
Hadley Public Schools8,500
Narragansett Regional School District9,500
Pentucket Regional School District7,500
Plymouth Public Schools8,151
Reading Public Schools5,190
Weymouth Public Schools9,500
Total Federal Funds:$52,841
Total Funds (State $146,296) and (Federal $52,841)$199,137

Last Updated: March 15, 2019

 
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