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Federal Funding
in Support of Professional Development:
While some schools, districts, and states provide direct funding support for
participation in Schools Attuned, others access any of a number of funding
streams dedicated for high quality professional development to cover the costs
of participation. Some states such as
North Carolina, Oklahoma,
and South Carolina have
gone so far as to subsidize most of the cost of Schools Attuned for a certain
number of participants.
All systems and states have their own policies around accessing professional
development dollars but the following are ways that educators have accessed
federal funding sources in the past:
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Federal formula programs:
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IDEA: Part B
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NCLB
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Title I A: (schools in need of improvement can include funds for Schools
Attuned and Educational Care in their school improvement plans)
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Title II: Improving Teacher Quality State Grants
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Title VI B: Rural and Low Performing Schools
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Federal competitive programs:
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NCLB Title IV B: 21st Century Schools
Other possibilities for accessing professional development funding:
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NCLB Title III B, Subpart 3: LEP Students
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NCLB Title V: Improving Student Achievement
It may be worth noting that in 2003, Congress issued two reports stating
support for expenditures of federal funds for programs such as those offered by
All Kinds of Minds. House Report 108-188 from the Committee on Appropriations
(pg 143) and Senate Report 108-185 addressing IDEA (pp 56-57) state the
following:
"The committee is interested in professional development programs that prepare
school personnel to use a neurodevelopment framework to recognize, understand
and manage students who struggle to find school success because of differences
in learning..."
All federal, state, and local funding options have their own guidelines, but
many have clear as well as indirect connections to understanding learning and
learning variations. Adding language about neurodevelopment to your School
Improvement Plan or grant applications, such as that used in the House and
Senate reports, can increase your opportunities to acquire funding.
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