Competitive Grants: Promoting K-12 Student Achievement at Military-Connected Schools

The DoDEA Educational Partnership Grant Program provide resources for local education agencies [LEAs] to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of the highly mobile military-connected students in their community. The Grant Program specifically provides resources to military-connected LEAs to develop and implement projects that are designed to: � Engage students where disciplines converge, including programs that meaningfully integrate science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) subjects as well as other disciplines such as Career and Technical Education (CTE), arts & humanities. � Designing innovative remote learning experiences to teach literacy, mathematics, computer science, and/or other CTE courses. � Develop partnerships or consortia approaches to implement education and outreach programs with a holistic approach to understanding real-world applications. � Fill gaps in schools that lack necessary infrastructure through innovative programming and/or novel interventions to address student achievement gaps in any curricular subject. OR progress World Languages for military-connected student through one on the following: 1) Establish and implement programs that showcase a meaningful integration of world language(s) across subject areas. Projects under this scope would include world language immersion or partial world language immersion of any of the languages included on the DoD SLL (Appendix D) and/or ASL. 2) Establish and implement an exploratory pilot program that seeks to create new world language experiences for students. For example, this...

Awards are be made to local educational agencies (LEAs) on behalf of their eligible school(s). To qualify all participating schools must have a 10 percent or greater military dependent student enrollment. School districts apply on behalf of eligible schools.

The selection of proposals are based on five criteria. They were weighted in the following order: implementation plan, evaluation plan, needs assessment, goals/outcomes, and budget/sustainabilty. Additionally, the funding decisions are based on the following specific criteria: Evaluation of risks posed by applicant to include history of performance and ability to effectively implement requirements; Application scores, as determined by peer reviewers; and the availability of Federal funds.

Fiscal year 2018: For FY18 and FY19 all grant funded projects have a period of performance of approximately 54-months and are aimed to equip military-connected school districts with College and Career Ready resources necessary to successfully build and/or expand their Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programming. I have also attached a spreadsheet of all of our funded projects to date to include their specific amount and project abstract. The FY20 grant program focus will most likely continue to prioritize STEM as directed by the SECDEF. Fiscal year 2021: High school students in Kittery School District are part of a unique program that has supported social-emotional learning and STEM efforts during the COVID environment. The Wood Island Life Saving Station Association (WILSSA) in Kittery, Maine, strives to preserve the century-old Kittery site previously manned by predecessors of our modern-day Coast Guard. As part of educational efforts to raise awareness of the heroic surfmen of the old US Life Saving Service, WILSSA is partnering with Traip Academy, the town�s public high school, to create a unique boatbuilding class. More than a dozen Traip students are not...