11.+Budget

The itemized budget should identify costs of no more than the amount that the school is awarded for **Phase One** (Appendix H). For this phase of the grant, expenditures may be used for the state-sponsored professional development ($18,000) and other professional development, supporting the team’s participation in the summer professional development, stipends for professional development (excluding any contractual school days), travel, substitutes and release time during the school year for professional development. A laptop and a MP3 player must be purchased for the team members if they do not already have one that meets the specifications (Appendix D). NOTE: The Ohio Department of Education and eTech Ohio will not enter into negotiations as to final salary amounts for coaches - this is up to district policy to govern. NOTE: A budget for Phase Two will be developed along with the Action Plan for Phase Two in August 2010.

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 * 21st Century Skills Grant ||  ||
 * Budget for Phase One, Spring and Summer 2010 ||
 * iTouch MP3 Players || $199.00 || $2,000.00 ||
 * Lenovo Laptops || $1,059.78 || $6,358.68 ||
 * State Sponsored PD ||  || $18,000.00 ||
 * Additional Summer PD ||  || $1,000.00 ||
 * Travel Expenses ||  || $500.00 ||
 * Additional PD for full grant ||  || $37,000.00 ||
 * Technology Coach .5 FTE ||  || $20,000.00 ||
 * Stipends for Summer ||  || $7,500.00 ||
 * ||  || $92,358.68 ||
 * Stipends for Summer ||  || $7,500.00 ||
 * ||  || $92,358.68 ||
 * ||  || $92,358.68 ||
 * ||  || $92,358.68 ||

Your "Additional PD for full grant" will consist of the following PD plan listed below... CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SCHOOL YEAR: I would then recommend, in the action plan for phase 2 that there will be three full day PD sessions for your teacher teams each nine week period. The PD sessions will look at a specific technology (i.e. SmartBoards) with an orientation session the first training session of the nine week period...three weeks later a "how did you use the technology" session...then three weeks later (end of nine weeks) continued support and then orient for the next technology that will be purchased. SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ORIENTATION ON EQUIPMENT PURCHASE: So, you will purchase a piece of technology in Phase 2 and we will support that technology's integration into the classroom. Some of the technologies might be bought together, for instance, I could see the purchase of SmartBoards, Student response systems and doc cams...then we could come in and conduct PD that works with your teachers integrating that "suite" of technology. Maybe the second nine weeks would be podcasting. Your technology purchase might just be USB headsets, iPod Touchs for each teacher, Camtasia and Snagit Software and then we would spend the next nine weeks with three different full day sessions on how to create and utilize Podcasting in the classroom. Towards that end of the second nine week period we would talk about iTunes and the iPod Touch. Then move into the third nine weeks to develop skills beyond the podcasting capabilities of the iPod Touch and more about how to use this handheld computer in their classroom. The fourth nine weeks would focus on how to work with FlipVideo cameras and create content that the teachers could utilize the rest of the year and into future years. ACCESS TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS AT KENT: I will also make available our regular schedule of professional development sessions, to your building team at no cost to your district. Also, any other interested educators/administrators from your district can attend sessions at our facility in Kent at the Comprehensive member rate which saves you 50.00 a class (not including technology). Cost for this will be $30,000 for the grant duration. This is on top of the cost for the Tech Coach.