Teachers and Technology Application/Instructions

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Please read and follow carefully the application instructions. Applications must be postmarked by March 10, 2009, to be considered for the program. Direct specific application questions to .

Application Instructions

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A classroom teacher or a team of classroom teachers who are employed by an eligible school district may apply for one Qwest Teacher and Technology Grant by complying with the following steps:

STEP 1

Please be sure that your district is listed among the eligible school districts for this grant award. List is the final page of this application.

STEP 2

Please complete the cover sheet. The cover sheet requires you to provide contact information for yourself, your school, and your school principal. The cover sheet also requires you to provide additional information that is relevant to your grant proposal. This document must be signed by you and your school principal. Note: If a team of classroom teachers is applying for a Qwest Teacher and Technology Grant, each team member must complete a separate cover sheet.

Note: The cover sheet shall be the only document that contains personal or identifying information about you, any of your teammates, your school, your school principal, or your school district.

STEP 3

Please prepare a narrative description of your grant proposal not to exceed four single-spaced pages. Your grant proposal must describe the goals and objectives you want to achieve. At a minimum, your grant proposal must:

describe the different types of student populations and student grade levels that you will serve;
provide the number of students that you will serve;
clearly articulate how you plan to improve student achievement by the integration of technology into your classroom curriculum through innovative ways;
clearly describe how you will measure student achievement gains as a result of integrating innovative technology strategies into the classroom curriculum;
describe any additional outcomes you seek to achieve;
describe how you will measure the success of these additional outcomes;
provide a detailed timeline for the implementation of the grant.

Note: Do NOT include any specific identifying information about you, your school, or your district in the narrative. It is acceptable to include descriptions of your school and its demographics.

Example:
Acceptable: Our school is an urban elementary school with approximately 60% of the students English Language Learners.
Not Acceptable: At Central Valley High in the City Public Schools, we…

STEP 4

Please prepare a budget narrative that describes how you will spend the grant funds. At a minimum, your budget narrative must include the amount of the grant you are seeking and must clearly describe how the grant funds will be spent. Unknown costs associated with certain items that will be purchased with grant funds should be estimated as accurately as possible. The budget narrative must also describe how the innovative technology strategies that are integrated into the classroom will be sustained over time once the grant funds are expended.

STEP 5

Please submit an itemized budget spreadsheet that reflects all relevant expenditures detailed in the budget narrative required in Step 4.

STEP 6

Please submit four copies each of the cover sheet(s), narrative description of your grant proposal, the budget narrative, and the budget spreadsheet via regular mail, postmarked no later than March 10, 2009 to:

Public Education & Business Coalition
RE: Qwest Teachers and Technology Grants
1244 Grant Street
Denver, CO 80203

APPLICATION REVIEW AND NOTIFICATION

The Qwest Teacher and Technology Grants will be awarded through a competitive process. All proposals for a grant will be reviewed and evaluated by a selection committee of individuals who are education, business, and civic leaders. Grants shall be awarded solely on the basis of the merit of each proposal. The scoring of each proposal shall be confidential and individual feedback will not be provided. Grants will be awarded to individual applicants or team leaders on behalf of their team.

Funds will not be issued to schools and/or districts.

All individual applicants and team leaders will be notified whether or not their respective proposals have been selected to receive a grant no later than May 8, 2009. Funds for 75 percent of the grant shall be awarded by May 29, 2009. Funds for the remaining 25 percent of the grant shall be awarded after the recipient has submitted the expense report that is no later than October 9, 2009 (see the following Expenditure of Grant Funds).

Note: Identical applications will not be considered.
Note: Only one application per teacher is allowed.