PRESS RELEASE
Glasgow News 1
The Office of Teaching and Learning is issuing a Request for Application for Kentucky public school districts to apply on behalf of individual schools. [Kentucky School for the Blind and Deaf are] also are eligible to apply.
As specified in Kentucky Revised Statute 158.844, the Mathematics Achievement Fund was created to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics.
The MAF grant provides funding for professional learning and release time for teachers to serve as coaches. The mathematics coach will improve mathematics teaching practices aligned to the KAS by working with teachers in their classrooms:
- observing and providing feedback to them;
- modeling appropriate evidence based instructional practices;
- conducting workshops or institutes;
- establishing professional learning communities; and
- ensuring high quality instructional resources are aligned to the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics in order to meet the needs of primary students and other students who are struggling to meet grade level standards in mathematics.
The school level mathematics coach shall engage in ongoing professional learning (PL) for the two-year renewable grant focused in four areas:
- intensive PL on the KAS for Mathematics;
- intensive PL in mathematics coaching;
- intensive PL in cognitive coaching; and
- enrollment and completion of the elementary mathematics endorsement.
The 13-page RFA document states that the deadline to apply is June 4 at 4 p.m.
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