Applies for a $200,000 New Venture Fund grant to support multilingual learners in PK-2
The Board is asked to approve an application to the New Venture Fund for a $200,000 Emerging Bilingual Collaborative grant. The money would support schools with the most multilingual learners, including bilingual and dual language schools and those with many newcomers, and would build professional communities of teachers across PK-2. The grant period would be October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023, and it is not yet awarded.
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- Vendor / partner
- New Venture Fund
- Action
- Grant or funding in
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- Classroom & academic programs
- Term
- Oct 1, 2021 – Sep 30, 2023
- This vote
- $200,000
- Funding
- Emerging Bilingual Collaborative Project Grant
- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
21-2178· agendaV.-21- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Oct 13, 2021
Official text
Approval by the Board of Education of a Grant Application to the New Venture Fund seeking Emerging Bilingual Collaborative Grant in the amount of $200,000.00, in funding for focus on two grade levels: 1) allow District to fully align PK through primary grade efforts and 2) elementary schools that tend to create professional communities grouping TK-2 teachers and 3-5 teachers, so a PK-2 will best fit into current structures to engage District schools with the highest concentration of Multilingual Learners, with special attention to schools with bilingual / dual language programming as well as schools with high concentrations of newcomers, via the English Language Learner and Multilingual Achievement (ELLMA) Department, for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report