Educational Equity Program Funding Proposal Guidelines
1. Proposed programs must align with at least one of the Educational Equity Alliance goals to be considered;
§ Student achievement: To foster student success and learning with innovative initiatives while identifying and addressing the systematic barriers that impede academic success.
§ Increase intercultural competency of staff, students, and board members.
§ Increase opportunities cross- cultural interactions and opportunities for integrated learning environments.
2. EEA gives preference to programs that are ongoing throughout the year.
3. EEA will provide an evaluation tool.
4. If you are currently employed by either ISD 832 or 622 you must use the approved staff hourly rate of $ 35.74. Any prep time needs to be verified with the EEA coordinator prior to submission.
5. EEA will automatically fund transportation and Interpretation when requested.
6. Refreshments must not exceed 10% of your total budget.
7. Proposal forms must be legible.
8. The approval process may take a several months. Please the follow submission timelines:
a. Fall program: April 30th
b. Winter program: September 30th
c. Spring program: December 31th
d. Summer program: January 31th
Date: ____2012-2013______District: ______ISD 622______
STAFF Name: __Angelica Toralba-Olague____Title: Youth Program Coordinator
Phone: __651-748-7446______Email:
STUDENT APPLICANTS:
Cheng Leng Xiong, Senior at North
Zang Her, Junior at Tartan
Hayat Butta, Junior at Mahtomedi
Heven Woledi, Junior at Tartan
Grimson Burgos, Junior at North
Jada Mitchell, Junior at Tartan
Objectives/Outcomes (explicitly stated, how will you know?):
The objective of Project SWAG is to have more teachers, administrators, school staff, community members and students learn more about the achievement gap and what can students in partnership with adults do about it.
SWAG stands for Students Working on the Achievement Gap. The project is initiated by the Youth Leadership Council (YLC). SWAG has multiple parts and this proposal is to request funding to help us reach out to more groups through workshops and help us grow the cross-age mentoring program.
During the 2011-2012 school year, the YLC initiated Project SWAG which had three parts. The first part was a peer workshop which was implemented on MLK Day. The goal was to learn from one another about the achievement gap through simulations led by the YLC members. The second part was a cross-age mentoring program which 40 high school students made a one-on-one impact with 40 elementary students. The program was once per week for seven weeks and provided reading support and enrichment activities that the mentors and mentees did together. The third part was to create a video to educate others about the achievement gap. The hope for the video was to show it to different community and school groups.
Because of Project SWAG’s success, the YLC students want to grow Project SWAG in two ways for the 2012-2013 school year:
1) Now that the SWAG video is complete, the YLC is interested in developing a workshop that goes with it and present it at staff development days, community or parent meetings and youth leadership conferences. The outcome is to have over 1,000 people view the video, and have direct training to impact at least 100 staff and 100 students. We will have a survey that the participants will complete to show an increase in cross-cultural competence and interaction.
2) Now that we have piloted the Cross-Age Mentoring program for seven weeks in Spring 2012, we would like to increase our impact by adding a fall semester. This is due to the requests from teachers and parents from our surveys. In addition, in partnership with our YLC/SWAG Advisors, we will track the elementary students’ progress through grades, MCA scores and/or a report from their teacher. We will also track the high school mentors progress as well.
We will complete a report at the end of the year which will include the workshop participants’ responses and the cross-age mentoring progress results.
How does this program align with Educational Equity Alliance goals (establish a clear connection)?
The workshops will align with the last two goals of the EEA: a) Increase intercultural competency of staff, students, and board members, and b) Increase opportunities cross- cultural interactions and opportunities for integrated learning environments. Our workshop about the achievement gap will present the various factors that the YLC learned: Home, background, teachers, schools and the individual. The workshop includes the students’ experiences, peer stories and training that they have received by the National Youth Leadership Council. We will also show this through survey for the participants to fill out.
The cross-age mentoring program will align with the first goal of: Student achievement - To foster student success and learning with innovative initiatives while identifying and addressing the systematic barriers that impede academic success. In partnership with the YLC/SWAG Advisors, mentors’ and mentees’ progress will be tracked.
Program Description (who, when, how long location):
We want to grow Project SWAG the Workshops and Cross-Age Mentoring programs.
WORKSHOPS
We have three types of workshops.
1) The first is “Youth Perspectives on the Achievement Gap” which is for-youth by-youth.
2) The second workshop is in the process of being developed and it is titled “Youth & Adult partnership to create a successful mentoring program” which is geared for youth and their youth allies.
3) The third workshop is also in the process of being developed and it is inspired by a College of St Catherine student who called her training / presentation to the faculty at St Kate’s, “My Wish.” This workshop’s main audience would be teachers, school staff and administrators. This would also be appropriate for community members and parents to learn more about how teachers and our school culture can impact the achievement gap.
We plan on finishing the two workshops at our YLC retreat in September. Below are our current planned trainings:
Date / Workshop / Audience / Participation / Partners / LocationSeptember 2012 / #1
Finish developing #2 and #3 / High School Youth
15-20 / NYLC “Youth Solutions to the Achievement Gap”
Rebecca, “My Wish” founder / Concordia Language Villages
October 2012 / #1 / High School Mentors
40 / Schools / TBD
January 2013 / #3 / Teachers and School Staff
30 / Schools / TBD
March 2013 / #2 / Teachers, School Staff, Administrators, Community staff, Youth
100 / NSLC / Colorado (TBD)*
April 2013 / #2 / Youth & Adults
100 / Youthrive / Minneapolis, MN
May 2013 / #3 / Teachers, School staff, administrators, community, youth
30 / EEA / DEC
*We are submitting a workshop proposal that is due on September 20th and we will know in October if our application was accepted.
CROSS-AGE MENTORING
Date / To DoSeptember 2012 / Recruit & train mentors
Teacher recommends mentees
October – November 2012 / Fall Mentoring program
December 2012 / Recruit & train mentors
Half progress report
January – February 2012 / Spring Mentoring program
PROJECT DETAILS:
Budget- Estimated Costs:
Facilities: / $500Staffing-
In district: / $1000
Staffing-
Out of district: / $3000
Registration / $1000
Materials/Supplies / $3500
Transportation: / $3500
Childcare: / $0
Refreshments: / $1500
Hotel: / $1000
Community Ed Match / $14,000
GRAND TOTAL / $29,000
In-kind from Community Ed / $14,000
TOTAL Requesting from EEA / $15,000
Please submit this form to your district Equity/Integration Coordinator.
(ISD 622- Tom Howley/ ISD 832- Lindsey Olson)
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Signature of Author Date
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District Coordinator Date
Program proposals will be reviewed by district coordinator and then by Ayanna Farrell, Educational Equity Alliance Coordinator. Final approval will be made by the Community Collaborative Council. Should you have any questions about the process, please email or call Ayanna at 651 748-7535 or
This program was approved on ______, 20_____.
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Community Collaborative Council, Chair
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Educational Equity Alliance Coordinator