Targeted Funding Resources
Striving Readers Program Compliance Solutions
The goals of the national Striving Readers grant is to improve literacy learning outcomes, increase the use of data analysis to inform decision making and increase the implementation of effective literacy instruction. Vantage Learning can aid your district in meeting these goals with the Vantage Accountability Solution.
The Vantage Accountability Solution can help your district by allowing educators to make informed decisions based on real-time data to drive one-to-one instruction.
Click here to find out how we can help you address specific program responsibilities.
Common Core State Standards Implementation
The following is from the Common Core Implementation Workbook created by Achieve and the U.S. Education Delivery Institute. The full Workbook can also be found on Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers’ website.
In the section here, you will find summaries of some federal education funding programs that may be used for implementing the Common Core State Standards.
Common Core Implementation Workbook – Funding section
SIG Compliance Solutions
School Improvement Grants (SIG) provide an unprecedented opportunity to raise the levels of student achievement and staff effectiveness in the lowest performing schools. Vantage Learning offers a comprehensive solution to ensure schools are in compliance with the Transformation or Turnaround models and provide a sustainable model for overall school improvement. The key elements in your chosen model that you must adequately address to successfully make use of and ensure funding include:
- Completing a comprehensive needs assessment
- Using aligned strategies, assessments, and resources for intervention
- Cultivating effective school leadership
- Implementing and sustaining school-wide transformation
Vantage Learning’s Accountability Solution allows teachers and school leaders to deliver real-time, ongoing assessments of their students’ skills, while also participating in employing data to facilitate differentiated instruction and curriculum planning.
Click here for a summary of how our solutions meet each one of these criteria.
Integrating Writing into Your Curriculum
Our Web-based, award-winning program, MY Access!®, integrates proven instructional technology to teach all aspects of the writing process through direct instruction, assessment, and data management. The program has been developed as a clear research-based model of what constitutes strong writing skills at multiple developmental levels.
To help you draft a data and research-based persuasive grant proposal to fund your use of MY Access!, we present the 2009 MY Access! Grant Writing Tool Kit and the 2009 I3 Grant Tool Kit.
2009 Vantage Grant Tool Kit (word)
Other possible funding sources for Vantage Accountability Solution elements:
- Title I – Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
- Title II, Title IID – Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT)
- Title III – Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient Children and Immigrant Students
- Title IV – 21st Century Schools
- Title V, Part A – Promoting Informed Parental Choice and Innovative Programs
- Title VI, Part B – Rural Education Initiative
- Title VII – Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education
- IDEA – Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Head Start
- Race to the Top
