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Request for Proposals for Fiscal Year 2004-2005
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2002-2003 PDS Study Group Inquiry Projects, click here).
Request for Proposals
Alaska Partnership for Teacher Enhancement (APTE)
Professional Development Study Group Inquiry Projects
Description: For the federal fiscal year
October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005, the Alaska Partnership for
Teacher Enhancement (APTE) is offering grant funds to groups of
educators in Professional Development Schools in the Kashunamiut,
Lower Kuskokwim and Yupiit School Districts and specific schools
within the Anchorage School District who wish to examine an instructional
or curricular problem or issue that they believe demands greater
study. Anchorage schools eligible include: Abbott Loop, Campbell,
Chinook, Kasuun, Mountain View, Spring Hill, Taku, Trailside, Tyson
William, Williwaw and Wonder Park Elementary Schools; Bartlett,
Dimond, East, Service and South High Schools, plus Central, Mears,
Mirror Lake and Wendler Middle Schools.
For the current fiscal year, the award for any
project is up to $1,500. The APTE Director will
review proposals and awards will be announced November 1,
2004.
Purposes of Grants: (1)
to enable educators to address issues that demand attention and
resources that are beyond the normal school improvement resources;
and (2) to support educators in developing their capacities to carry
out inquiries into curricular and instructional issues.
Deadline for Submission:
October 15, 2004. (If available funds are not all
committed during this first round of proposals, we will accept proposals
that come to us after that date until the funds are depleted).
Address for Submissions:
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Send
the electronic copy to Betty Meyer, APTE Program Coordinator at
anbjm@uaa.alaska.edu.
If you have questions, please call (907) 786-4307.
Eligibility
• Applicants: Educators
at APTE Professional Development Schools in rural Alaska and those
within the schools specified above in the Anchorage School District
are eligible to apply for funds.
• Collaboration:
Proposed projects must involve at least one other APTE partner or
partner school. APTE partners include Alaska Department of Education
and Early Development (DEED), Anchorage Education Association (AEA),
Anchorage School District (ASD), College of Arts & Sciences
(CAS), University of Alaska Anchorage, College of Education, (COE)
University of Alaska Anchorage, General Communications, Inc. (GCI),
Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of
Alaska Anchorage, Kashunamiut School District (KSD), Lower Kuskokwim
School District (LKSD), National Education Association-Alaska (NEA-Alaska),
President’s Office, University of Alaska (UA), Provost’s
Office, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Yupiit School District
(YSD).
APTE 2004-2005 Study
Group Proposal Preparation
In no more than 2 double-spaced pages (using at
least 11-point font), list the title of your program and then describe
the following:
1. Research question or problem and its importance.
(5 pts)
2. Relationship of question or problem to overall school improvement.
(10 pts)
3. Plan of inquiry: data to be collected (or literature to be reviewed),
method for collecting data, plan for analyzing data and presenting
results. (10 pts)
4. Key participants in inquiry, including division of responsibilities
for carrying out the inquiry tasks described above and contact information.
(5 pts)
5. APTE affiliate and contact information. (5 pts.)
6. Budget. (5 pts)
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