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Applicants should address how the LEA’s Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan (CCIP) supports their grant proposal. Describe joint planning that occurred as well as the level of commitment among all parties (district and building level ). Include CIP alignment information as it relates to the overarching educational goals. It is critical that the applicant’s educational goals are aligned with the project’s educational needs. The project must also correlate closely to the local technology plan and reflect the state's priorities for academic achievement.

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 * Our CCIP/OIP supports the grant proposal by reducing the number of basic and limited students by 12% in the content areas of reading and mathematics as measured by the current state-mandated assessment. The emphasis will be placed on the ninth grade core class curriculum in correlation with our feeder middle schools’ data. The only way to successfully achieve this is by providing instruction that utilizes 21st century technology that is relevant, rigorous, and engages students. Technology will link students in Chaney to a global reality. The need for assistance in acquiring, using and integrating technology from the ARRA Grant will help teachers gain mastery of technology through professional development. The teachers then can facilitate an understanding of 21st century technology to the students in order for them to master the key concepts. The students will master the multi-dimensional abilities required for them to succeed in the 21st century. As stated in the District’s Technology Plan, English and mathematics teachers will attend professional development enabling them to incorporate keyboarding, interactive Smart Boards, wikis, virtual field trips and distance learning. On February 17, 2010 ** t**he leadership team and administration of Chaney High School committed to the ARRA grant proposal by setting a schedule for joint planning.** **Daily meetings, wiki conversations regarding articles, writing sessions, meeting and phone conversations with technology department teacher liaison, meeting with Western Reserve Public Media, collaboration between middle schools and high schools in the district, meeting with Cardinal Mooney, meetings with math department and English department discussion of professional development needed and technology, meeting with building sysops on the use and support of technology in the classroom, meeting with other building deans on progress of ARRA grant. On Tuesday, March 23, 2010, all staff members in the district that have a vested interest in the grant proposal met and exchanged information and ideas to facilitate the writing of the grant. All parties aforementioned are committed to building a program for the success of students in the 21st century. The educational goals that will be addressed are reading, specifically communications - oral and visual; and mathematics, specifically measurement, data analysis, and probability. Students will be able to deliver presentations, informational or persuasive in nature, that are logically sequenced, organized including relevant facts, from multiple research sources, utilizing a variety of delivery methods, visual displays, and technology, design experiments to test a theoretical probability, and explain their results. The students will learn how to gather information using technology to compute probabilities of compound events, independent events, and simple dependent events. As aligned with the OIP, the educational goals of the ARRA Grant will be professional development of the 9th through 12th English, math and core content area teachers using critical thinking skills and technology. This professional development will be vertically aligned with feeder schools and horizontally aligned with our non-public partners. By moving our school into the 21st century with technology and instruction, our success will reflect the state’s priority for academic achievement by applying technological knowledge in decision making.** 