Cross your fingers!

I am paid out of Title One, thus one of my yearly goals is to try and recover some if not all of my salary through grant writing. Sometimes I can, but usually I can't. The Governor's Office of Student Achievement is sponsoring Innovation in Mathematics grants (here it is for all parties https://gosa.georgia.gov/innovation-fund) for up to $150,000 - that would be about three Kolt Bloxsons. After reviewing the criteria, I knew exactly what I wanted to do but am saddened because I have only won a couple of grants and this is kind of a biggie.

My overall goal is to equip at least one teacher on every grade level at every school in my cluster with a Mathematics and Science endorsement. This strategy would not only increase the pedagogical content knowledge of each grade level at each school but it would also equip grade level teams with a persons capable of designing rigorous, standards-based matheamtics. This could be huge for us, and we kind of need it. By sponoring both a Mathematics and Science endorsement for my local cluster of schools (APS is operating on a charter system, cluster model with the clusters basically being high school feeders), my ultimate goal is to increase teacher retention by formally training them with endorsement classes, and improve student growth and achievement. Get it?

The problem I faced was that no one, not a single person wanted to help me write this grant :( so I feel a bit like David and Goliath and I am hoping that I did a decent job with my detailing of budgets (thanks  School Operations team for your support!) and long term action plans. If anyone would like to help or even give me feedback, I would truly apprecaite it. If not, well, cross your fingers! :)