Senate Bill 191. Great Teachers and Leaders: Ensuring Quality Instruction through Educator Effectiveness. Retrieved from http://www.mikejohnston.org/issues/sb-10-191/

HB 387 has key elements as permanent funding is incorporate to support student learning with a minimum of 60% of the funds following the student. What are those key elements?

1. Personalize opportunities? What might this mean?

Individualized Pathways:

Since a nation at risk in 1983 - the message for success has been go to college. While college is one pathway, it is not the only one, unfortunately it was billed as the only path and students fell by the wayside.

Did you know that GEMS shows a 41% capture rate of 2017-18 graduates into the MUS system? What happened to the other 59%?

The bill is looking for initiatives that include school, community, industry, students and family initiatives. Innovation is encouraged.

What initiatives come to your mind?

The goal is to continue to foster the potential of each student and ensure that an advanced opportunity plan exists for each participant.

This requires knowing:

Developing self-directed student learning is one of the key efforts identified in the bill.

While there is still room for additional research regarding the practices that effective teachers demonstrate, there is growing evidence that student growth, when anchored with standard performance criteria, and measured with thoughtful input with the folks who live at the point of delivery could yield greater levels of content proficiency.

The question is: can we afford to ignore or resist this process? Ought implies can. Can we create capacity that provides for all students to achieve proficiency?

The district's strategic plan must include measurable goals and objectives around advanced opportunities for youth.

This bill has permanent funding attached which means that it is part of the budget development each biennium.

Funding for FY 2021 is capped at $750,000.00 and if you visit the OPI website Transformational Learning, you will find the guidance sheet that outlines the preliminary draft of future funding years.

financial support is base on your prior year QEP and if you take your total amount and multiply it by the factors below, you can calculate your funding eligibility.

the BOPE will finalize rule making around deadlines at their November 7th meeting. This is the proposed schedule for each fiscal year moving forward.

This bill due to finite funding is a first-come, first-served model.

The OPI Transformational Learning Page will have the final application live later this week. It can be form-filled and downloaded for board chair signatures. On the first Monday of December (12/2), the application window will be open by 8:00 a.m. for submission of applications.