Applications for New Awards; Technical Assistance and Dissemination To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities—Model Demonstration Projects To Improve Literacy Outcomes for English Learners With Disabilities in Grades Three Through Fiv
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
Solicitation Title: Applications for New Awards; Technical Assistance and Dissemination To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities—Model Demonstration Projects To Improve Literacy Outcomes for English Learners With Disabilities in Grades Three Through Fiv
Funding Amount: Cooperative agreement. Estimated Available Funds: $1,200,000. Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make additional awards in FY 2017 from the list of unfunded applications from this competition. Estimated Range of Awards: $375,000 to $400,000. Estimated Average Size of Award: $400,000. Maximum Award: We will reject and not review any application that proposes a budget exceeding $400,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. Estimated Number of Awards: 3.
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, April 21, 2016
Solicitation Link: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-03-07/pdf/2016-05026.pdf
Solicitation Number: (CFDA) Number: 84.326M
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RODA ID: 86
Solicitation Title: Applications for New Awards; Technical Assistance and Dissemination To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities—Model Demonstration Projects To Improve Literacy Outcomes for English Learners With Disabilities in Grades Three Through Fiv
Funding Amount: Cooperative agreement. Estimated Available Funds: $1,200,000. Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make additional awards in FY 2017 from the list of unfunded applications from this competition. Estimated Range of Awards: $375,000 to $400,000. Estimated Average Size of Award: $400,000. Maximum Award: We will reject and not review any application that proposes a budget exceeding $400,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. Estimated Number of Awards: 3.
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, April 21, 2016
Solicitation Link: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-03-07/pdf/2016-05026.pdf
Solicitation Number: (CFDA) Number: 84.326M
Overview
<p><span>The purpose of the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program is to promote academic achievement and to improve results for children with disabilities by providing technical assistance (TA), supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research.</span></p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p><span>Applicants must propose models that meet the following requirements: (a) The model’s core intervention components (e.g., services, assessments, processes, data collection instruments) must include: (1) A framework that includes, at a minimum, universal screening, progress monitoring, and effective core instruction; 6 (2) Culturally responsive principles within each component of the framework; (3) Interventions that meet the needs of the specific population and are supported by scientifically based research; (4) Practices that are valid and reliable and ensure appropriate identification of ELs as having disabilities; (5) Measures of literacy outcomes,7 using standardized measures when applicable, and teacher and systems outcomes, when appropriate; (6) Measures of language proficiency in the child’s first language and English; and (7) Measures of the model’s social validity, i.e., measures of educators’, parents’, and students’ satisfaction with the model components, processes, and outcomes. (b) The model’s core implementation components must include: (1) Strategies for selecting 8 and recruiting sites, including approaches to introducing the model to and promoting the model among site participants, 9 with consideration given to the following criteria: (i) Each project must include at least three elementary schools with students in grades three through five or three through six. Each school must have at least 40 percent and no fewer than 100 students who have been identified as ELs in these grades; and (ii) In each of the schools, at least 10 percent of the identified ELs in grades three through five or three through six must be ELSWDs with literacy goals on their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs); (2) A lag site implementation, which involves selecting one of the three sites in year one of the project period to begin implementation of the project’s model for at least three years, with the other two schools beginning implementation in year two; (3) A professional development component that includes an evidence based coaching strategy to enable staff to implement the interventions with fidelity; and (4) Measures of the performance of the professional development (e.g., improvements in teacher instructional delivery and knowledge) required by paragraph (b)(3) of this section, including measures of the fidelity of implementation. (c) The core strategies for sustaining the model must include: (1) Documentation that permits current and future practitioners to replicate and tailor the model at any site; 10 and (2) Strategies for the grantee to sustain the model, such as developing easily accessible training materials or coordinating with TA providers who might serve as future trainers. To be considered for funding under this absolute priority, applicants must meet the application requirements contained in this priority. Each project funded under this absolute priority also must meet the programmatic and administrative requirements specified in the priority.</span></p>Last Updated:
RODA ID: 86