Week+4

​Budgets

Find creative ways to utilize the resources in your school to implement your intervention. Identify how you will change the budget allocations and spend your budget dollars, as necessary, to realize your vision, achieve your instructional goal, and implement your intervention strategy. Engage in professional development planning.
 * Administrative Leadership Team Challenge:**

Use the questions below to guide your team discussion in response to the team challenge:

Teachers, classroom aides, and other support staff. Therapists can also review skills with student during therapy and focus on things such as test anxiety
 * //How will you begin to implement your strategy or intervention?//
 * // Through professional development and designating funds in the budget the intervention can be implemented. First, the administrators will meet with the middle school teacher, school testing coordinator, curriculum specialist and mentor teacher to explore the issue of low performance and solutions arriving at the need to implement the intervention. //
 * // We will assess student acheviement and present level of perfomrnace relative to benchmarked curriculum and statewide standards. //
 * //How much money will you need to implement this intervention?//
 * Since it is a fairly small school the amount of money required should be fairly reasonable. Materials and planning time will be somewhat expensive as will paying staff and presenters for professional development time. Beyond that it should be fairly inexpensive in terms of extra money allocated. (badly worded but just putting ideas up)
 * //What financial resources are already allocated that would support your intervention?//
 * Some funds for materials, training, assessment, and personnel can be diverted from existing initiatives to help fund this new initiative.
 * //Will you need to reallocate funds?//
 * See above :-)
 * //What material and human resources already exist in your building? How can you identify what resources are available and if you are using them effectively?//
 * // Survey the teachers on the current assessment methods and desired or preferred ones. Review of inventory. //
 * //What material resources can be repurposed for this intervention?//
 * Existing equipment such as projectors and computers used in current professional development activities will be able to be repurposed for professional development activities to prepare professionals for the new intervention. Much of the existing curriculum will be able to be used in the delivery of the specific instruction aimed at skill remediation. Classroom technology as well as furnishings and other equipment can be used in the intervention.
 * //How will you spend your budget dollars? What do you need to purchase?//
 * Curriculum items, formalized assessments to use in assessing students against benchmarks and for preperaing them for tesing experience.
 * //Who needs to be involved in your intervention? Does it require a shift in personnel, or is it something that can be accomplished with staff members in their current roles?//
 * // Intervention team members: administrator, middle school teacher, teacher specialist, school testing coordinator The teacher specialist is a .5 position that will be pulled to work with students struggling with curriculum //
 * //How can staff members and other community members be used creatively to achieve your intervention (e.g., volunteers, across-age mentors, specialty visitors, etc.)?//
 * Classroom aides can be used to provide individual support to students; volunteers from the community can be invited to read to the students, or professionals strong in math can help students with applying math to real life applications to help students see the real use (i.e. fierfighters use calculations in determining how much water to use for fighting a fire).
 * //What professional development needs to take place to support the intervention? What will be the outcomes of the professional development?//
 * Professional development needs to be instituted to create buy-in for intervention implementation. The goal of improving performance on standardized tests might be a tough sell for some teachers and administrators. How this goal fits in our vision and mission will have to be expressed. Teachers will also need training in any new curriculum materials to be introduced. Also support in the use of standardized assessments in less-formal settings for summative and formative asessment as well as skill development will be needed. Overall trainings in formative assessment would also be beneficial. Any specific instructional methodologies might also need to be taught to professionals prior to implementation. Also logistical, scheduling, and teaming arrangements might need to be discussed in a PD setting.
 * //Who will conduct the professional development?//
 * A collaborative effort led by the school administrator. The curriculum specialist, resource teacher, and school testing coordinator will lead training at the intervention and remediation stage
 * //Can you use existing planning time for professional development, or will you need additional time in the schedule?//
 * // Additional time will need to be scheduled to implement ongoing training for the middle school teacher, and remediations and interventions as needed. Currently, this time is not available in the monthly training schedule //
 * // Consider allocating funds for substitutes to cover classes while teachers attend professional development activities; also consider using classroom aides with specific skill sets, degreed, or interested/able to teach classes. //
 * //Will your professional development or intervention require additional fiscal resources, such as money to hire substitutes?//
 * // A short school day means that PD can happen after school- however we may want to consider inviting curriculum specialists from the LEA to lead PD activities-which may require reimbursement funds //
 * // see above //
 * //How will you monitor staff progress in the professional development? What are the budget considerations for progress monitoring and teacher evaluation?//
 * By integrating the same formative assessment strategies as well as summative assessments relative to benchmarks in the curriculum that we are asking them to implement within the proposed intervention.