001of the discussion of title one planning with Seth Putnham, our title grant coordinator. Take it away, Seth. >> Good evening. It's amazing to think that another year has passed by and here we are talking about uh title one funds. I did want to just start out by u once again thanking you for all your hard work on behalf of the school district. And I just wanted to share just a a few uh facts about uh title one in general because sometimes we get questions that also kind of involve the the bigger picture of things. And it is the oldest and largest federally funded education program in the US with over 15 billion in funds annually that go uh towards improving and enhancing our education programs in title one schools. And uh as of last year
002it was approximately 50,000 schools uh participating and more than 50% of public schools receive title one funding and that's more than uh 26 million children nationwide uh benefiting from title one programs. So, just wanted to start out with that. And then I got thinking about all of our years talking about funds. And I did want to thank our uh consultant uh group that every year um take time out of their summer to read my emails and also come to the district offices to sign off on our required documents. I would like to thank Nikki Sears, Suzanne Nicholas, Katie Lava, Amy Spicer, Josh Dan, Erica Vizio, Brian Mun, Diane Fox, Mark Farmer, and Melissa Butler who sign off of more of a a district level situation. But then we have a group of folks that also
003are uh looking at what we do. And I would like to thank Colleen Lockach from Kids R Us. Nick Hansen is our teaching assistant uh par profofessional uh stakeholder group representative. Uh Amy Miller is our uh parent uh representative. Amy Isabella who's our speech language pathologist. Uh she represents our specialized instructional support person um stakeholder group. Uh Wendy O'Brien, special education teacher. She's uh the teachers from uh Title One Schools rep. Jordana Mollik uh is our local government representative. Um Kathleen Fountain uh represents other school personnel. And it's always fun to talk to our students and find out who will be our student signature. And uh this summer saw Liam Stoddard step up and uh be our student rep. And so I just wanted to recognize our our current group and all of our groups
004in the past that have uh been so uh caring and helpful with our time. Um you can see that our agenda is like other years and we can um talk about the purpose and acceptable use of funds difference between schoolwide and targeted assisted plans. You'll see the funding levels that have been approved by the state. um a little bit about AIS services and uh our parent involvement piece. So with our acceptable use of uh title funds, you can see how examples of uh that is employee salaries and benefits, recruitment and retention of highly qualified teachers, professional development for staff, parental involvement and non-public school services and uh supplies and educational materials. and how that breaks down itemized. You can see here in our staffing and uh grant coordination and then there's our first landing scene
005our line for St. Bernard school where they used funds for AIS teacher stipen. See where uh some more of the funds uh we have required set aside for educational supplies for homeless and unaccompanied youth [snorts] uh which would be school supplies, book bags, warm clothing and shoes to ensure school uh participation and engagement. Um and then you also see the benefits associated with those salaries that we saw on the previous slide. This shifts now to title two and you can see that our um our dollar amount was 30,942 and we have uh professional development uh personal uh professional learning uh communities and we can also see we started out our school year with Dr. Joe Martin and um there's also some benefits related to those professional salaries uh with uh the teacher retirement social security
006workers comp and also St. Bernard's has a piece of that puzzle as well and that goes to the dascese of uh Benburg that's used for professional development and then there's a 5% administrative fee that's payable uh to dasis for that uh professional development. Title four is a student support and academic enrichment line. You can see u some more professional development in our first bullet there talking about technology and one-hour sessions for K12 uh teachers. Um and also you see uh 250 hours at 35 um dollars per hour in this line here. and looking forward to professional development coming up this school year with nationally known keep fading. So that's the situation there with title 4. Rounding that out, you see the St. Bernard school piece using I ready uh reading programs for interventions and then
007benefits associated with those professional salaries. [snorts] And just quickly with AIS services designed to help students achieve the learning standards in ELA and mathematics grades K12 as well as social studies and science in grades 4 through 12. And the important piece of the puzzle is how this supplements the general curriculum and it helps address uh various barriers that can get in the way of student success. parental involvement. It's something in uh 25 years in the district I've seen uh just consistently improve um with the end of the marking period. It's always interesting to hear students seeing their grades real time right in school tool and picturing how parents could be seeing that as well. and uh to think about when I was coming up through school, how it was rather abstract until the uh report
008card was handed out right here on this couch. Sixth period today, students were sharing with each other the the comments from uh their various teachers. Real time engagement there. And uh here's uh this slide speaks a little bit more to that and knowing how parental involvement refers to the participation of parents in regular two-way and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities. And when we talk about things such as parent teacher conferences, again, it's a situation where it's not really talking about anything that's breaking news with that back and forth and that communication in various ways keeps that engagement. A little bit more going into this uh how to also help parents help students. Um, I was at a meeting at Mountain Lake PBS on Friday and talking about different scaffolding and
009different uh ways to engage parents so that they're active participants in their students um education life. So, we do have a required yearly uh family notification document that is available right on our uh school website and it is linked from these slides. Uh we do have u open communication uh in this as well and uh my lines of communication are always open too for any additional questions and concerns. This is that questions slide. >> So the 2526 numbers that's what we applied for. Did have we received 100% of those funds yet? >> We have uh been approved by the state for that. So that is uh all up and running. I don't know if there's been any additional communication since that on the portal, but it was all good news last time I saw. >>
010Yes, [laughter] >> you could see. >> That's okay. >> Yes, that's good. >> Didn't want both of us thinking the other was >> always nice when you see that um great email come through that everything's been approved and We're looking good. >> Anything else for Seth? >> That is great. >> Thank you, Seth. >> Thank you again. Appreciate you very much. >> This part of the meeting will be ajourned. Uh,