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Consistent with the priorities and criteria in the June 12,
2002, North Dakota Consolidated State Application, the NDUS will make
awards from
Improving Teacher Quality State Grants funds to support the following
three types of partnership activities to enhance student achievement
in participating high-need LEAs:
- Professional development activities
in core academic subjects to ensure that:
- Teachers and highly qualified
paraprofessionals (and, when appropriate, principals)
have subject matter knowledge in the academic subjects that
the teachers teach (including knowledge of how to use
computers and other technology to enhance student learning); and
- Principals have the instructional
leadership skills to help them work more effectively
with teachers to help students master core academic
subjects.
- Development and provision of assistance to LEAs and to their
teachers, highly qualified paraprofessionals, or school principals,
in providing
sustained, high-quality professional development activities that:
- Ensure
that those individuals can use challenging State academic
content standards, student academic achievement standards, and
State
assessments to improve instructional practices and student academic
achievement;
- May include intensive programs designed to prepare
individuals to provide instruction related to the professional
development
described in the preceding paragraph to others in their schools;
and
- May include
activities of partnerships between one or more LEAs, one
or more of the LEAs’ schools, and one or more IHEs for the
purpose of improving teaching and learning at low-performing schools.
Applicants
who choose either numbers 1a., 1b. or 2a., 2b., or 2c. above
must also respond in some manner to the NDUS Absolute Priority,
New Teacher
Mentoring, number 3 below.
- Standards-based, new teacher mentoring activities
in summer institutes and associated follow-up sessions as defined
by the Absolute Priority
described in the North Dakota Consolidated State Application. The
applications will comply with the purposes of the NCLB legislation
and will be conducted
in compliance with the new North Dakota teacher licensure requirements
per the “highly qualified teacher” provisions of NCLB.
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