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2019 - Stepping up Technology Implementation, CFDA 84.327S Informational Webinar - YouTube
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This conference will now be recorded
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Welcome to this pre-recorded
informational webinar for the
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Educational Technology, Media and
Materials for Individuals with
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Disabilities Program. This webinar is for
the 20 FY 2019 Stepping Up Technology
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Implementation Grant Competition
administered by the Office of Special
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Education Programs or OSEP. My name is
Terry Jackson I'm a project officer at
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OSEP, and I'm also the competition manager for the specific grant funding
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opportunity. I'll provide an overview for the purpose
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of the educational technology media
materials program and the absolute
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priority which is the stepping up
technology implementation as well as
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submission procedures, formatting
recommendations, sections of the
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application selection criteria and the
general requirements. The purposes of
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the OSEP educational technology media
materials program is to improve results
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for students with disabilities by
promoting the development, demonstration,
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and use of technology; Support
educational activities designed to be of
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educational value in the classroom for
students with disabilities; Provide
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support for captioning in the video
description that is appropriate for use
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in the classroom and; Provide accessible
educational materials to students with
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disabilities in a timely manner. The
purpose of the absolute priority is to
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identify strategies needed to
effectively implement technology tools
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based on promising evidence that benefit
teachers, children with disabilities, and
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children with high needs develop and
disseminate products that will help a
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broad range of sites to understand use
and implement these technology
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tools, provide ongoing coaching and
professional development supports
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educators that allow them to integrate
the technology into classroom curriculum
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or early childhood programs to support high expectations with children disabilities,
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service providers, and families and scale
up and disseminate to additional sites.
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Now I want to talk about the
requirements for the absolute priority
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that applicants must include in the
application. First they must include a
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project design that is based on
promising evidence a logic model or
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conceptual framework that depicts at a
minimum the goals, activities, project
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evaluation methods, project evaluation
methods, performance measures, outputs and
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outcomes of the proposed project. The plan to implement the activities described in
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the project activities section of this
priority. A plan linked to the proposed
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projects logic model or conceptual
framework for formative evaluation of
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the proposed projects activities, that
plan must describe how the formative
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evaluation will use clear performance
objectives to ensure continuous
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improvement in the operation of the
proposed project including objective
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measures of progress and implementing
the project and ensuring the quality of
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products and services. The documentation
assuring that the final products
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disseminated to help sites effectively
implement technology tools will be an
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open educational resource and licensure
in open access licensing authority. Open
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educational resources are teaching and
learning materials that the public may
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freely use and reuse at no cost
unlike fixed copyrighted resources. OERs
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have been authored or created by an
individual or organization that chooses
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to retain few if any ownership rights
and then we have the link here that you
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can retrieve more information about OERs.
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You must also include documentation that
the technology tool used by the project
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is fully developed based on promising
evidence and addresses at a minimum the
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following principles of Universal Design
for Learning that includes multiple
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means of presentations, multiple means of expression, multiple means
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of expression engagement. I want to emphasize here that this grant competition is
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about the implementation of a fully
developed existing technology with
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promising evidence. So if there's any parts of the technology that
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needs developing it should be very minor.
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Projects must also include a plan for
how the project will sustain the work
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after funding ends as well as a plan for
how the applicant will
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recruit and select the three development
sites, the four pilot sites, and the ten
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dissemination site. Please note
applicants must include the names of the
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school sites or LEAs for the
development of pilot sites only.
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Dissemination sites are determined along
with a OSEP Project Officer if an applicant
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is funded. The development sites are
where the iterative development of the
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products and resources intended to
support the implementation of technology
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tools will occur, applicants must start
implementing the technology to one
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development site in year one of the
project period, and two additional site
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development sites in year two. The pilot
sites are where the applicants are
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testing or trying out the technology
along with formative evaluation and
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refinements of the products and
resources will occur. Applicants must
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work with the four pilot sites during
years three and four
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of the project period. The dissemination
sites will be selected if the project is
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extended for a fifth year. This is also
about the dissemination sites are is
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also about scaling up the work and
refining the products were used by teachers
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in evaluating the performance of the
technology tools. Sites will see in the
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dissemination sites will receive less
technical assistance from projects been
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developed in the development of pilot
sites. Also at this stage
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dissemination sites will extend the benefits of the
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technology tool to additional students.
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The applicants should note that a site
may not serve in more than one category.
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So for the four pilot school sites, the
four pilot school sites must be
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different from the three development school sites and the ten
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dissemination sites must be different
from the development pilot sites . So
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at the end of the project an applicant will have worked with at least 17 different school
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sites combined. Additionally a minimum of two of the seven development and pilot sites
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must be in settings other than
traditional public elementary and
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secondary schools. A minimum of three of
the 10 dissemination sites must be in a
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setting other than the traditional
public elementary and secondary schools
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where students students are served under
IDEA. Applicants must also provide
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information on the development and pilot
school sites including student
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demographics and other pertinent
pertinent information where children are
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supported under IDEA and the school sites
identified for comprehensive or
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targeted support and improvement under
ESEA.
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Applicants must also include a budget
for attendants at the following at a one
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and a half day kickoff meeting to be
held in Washington DC at the receipt of
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an award and an annual planning meeting
it's also held in Washington DC with the
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OSEP project officer and other relevant
staff during each subsequent year of the
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project period. Applicants must also
include a three-day
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project directors conference in
Washington DC during each year of the
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project period and two annual two-day
trips to attend department briefings,
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department sponsored conferences, and
other meetings as requested by OSEP.
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Please know that applicants should
carefully review the project activities
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that follow the priority requirements in both the NIA and in the
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full application.
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The technology implementation grant opportunity has a
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CFDA number of 84.327s. This is a
five-year project for that's being
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funded between 450,000 to 500,000
dollars per year. So the applicants
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budgets should be $500,000 or less for
each of the five project years. Eligible
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applicants for this grant competition
include SEAs,
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LEAs including public charter schools
that are considered LEAs under state law,
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IHEs, other public agencies, private
nonprofit organizations, outlying areas,
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freely associated States, Indian tribes or tribal organizations
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and for-profit organizations.
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Registering in the systems of for award
management is also required before
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submitting an application. We strongly
encourage you to start this process as
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soon as possible the NIA provides
additional information on registering
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on SAMs. Once the SAMs registration is
active it will take between 24 to 48
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hours for the information to be
available in grants.gov and applicants
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must be submitted through grants.gov.
Applications must be submitted
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through grants.gov. Applicants who are
unable to submit an application via
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grants.gov by the application deadline
due to inactive SAMs registration will
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not be considered for funding. At the
time of this recording, the NIA is
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not available so please check the NIA
closely for the closing date for this
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grant opportunity. Applicants having
problems submitting to grants.gov before
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the closing date should contact
grants.gov customer support at
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1-800-518-4726. Applications will not be accepted
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after 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern time
of the closing date and there are no
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exceptions to this. Applicants are strongly encouraged to verify the
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grants.gov received the application
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submission on time and that the
submission was validated successfully.
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Applicants can verify through the track my
application link on the grants.gov
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that a successful submission will
have the date and time
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received in G5 earlier than 11:59:59 p.m.
Washington DC time on the deadline date.
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As the application moves successfully
between grants.gov and the department's
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G5 system the status moved through 3 status: Validated, Received by
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agency, and finally Agency
tracking number will be assigned.
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All applications must be submitted
electronically in either PDF or
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Microsoft Word and we recommend
applicants submit all documents as
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read-only flattened PDFs. Any fillable PDF
files must be saved and submitted as non
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fillable PDFs. When a department's G5
system successfully retrieves an
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application from grants.gov a second
confirmation is regenerated, this second
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confirmation includes the proposal
request number or PR award number. This
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number typically begins with the letter
H followed by the CFDA number and alpha
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the two last digits of the federal
fiscal year. And finally a four digit
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number that is generated in the
order in which the applications are
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received. For example the first
applications the first application
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submitted through the stepping up
technology grant program in 2019 will
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receive a PR award number of H 327S.19.001
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All of our funding opportunities CFD
numbers start with H the 327 S
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is the funding opportunity for our
technology program, 19 is the year
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and the last four digits 0001 is the order the application was
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submitted. We discourage paper
applications but if electronic
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submission is not possible such as not
having access to Internet an applicant
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must do certain things. They must
provide a written statement of intent to
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submit a paper application no later than
two weeks before the application
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deadline which is 14 calendar days. The
applicant must mail or fax a written
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statement to the department explaining
the reason for their exception
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preventing you from using
Internet to submit your application and
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submit original application and along
with two copies on or before the
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application deadline to the department. I
have to say that we haven't had paper
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submission over the past two years,
but if you are needing an exception this
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is the process.
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Applicants requesting a submission exemption must provide a
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written statement of intent to submit a
paper application and mail to me at the
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address listed here. If you mail your
written statement to the department it must
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be postmarked no later than two weeks
before the application deadline. So again
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make sure you check in the when the NIA does come out to check the deadlines.
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A few words about formatting
recommendations of the application. First
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the application narrative which is part
three is where applicant addresses
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selection criteria that reviewers used
to evaluate the application. We recommend
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the following formatting guidelines. That
the page limit in the narrative section
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should be no more than 50 pages with
one-inch margins double-spaced. All text
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in the narrative section including
charts, tables, screenshots, graphs,
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headings, footnotes, and citations. And use a 12.5 inch font in one of the
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following: Times New Roman, Courier, Courier New, or Arial.
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A page is considered 8.5" x 11" on one side only with one-inch
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margins at the top, bottom, and both sides. Page limit and spacing does not apply to
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Part 1 - the cover sheet, or Part 2 the
budget section, or Part 4 the
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assurances and certifications, or the
abstract page.
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The abstract should precede the table of
contents and application narrative.
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The abstract template is located in the
hyperlink in the slide and is also in
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the application be included in the
application package. Again four parts of
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the application include Part 1 which
is the application for federal
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assistance which includes the SF-424
form, Part 2 is the budget information
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and that's form 524, Part 3
is the application narrative, and Part
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4 are the insurances and
certifications.
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Reviewers will be instructed to review
content of Appendix A as they review the
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application narrative but they will not
be required to review any other
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appendices. Appendix A is to be used only
for charts, tables, figures, graphs,
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screenshots, and logic models that
provide information directly relating to
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the application requirements for the
narrative. It should not be used for
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supplementary information.
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Listed here are the selection criteria
that reviewers will be using in
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evaluating individual applications. Each of the selection
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criteria have assigned point values. We
have six different selection criteria.
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Significance which is worth 10 points.
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Quality of Project Design worth 20 points,
Quality of Management Plan for 20 points,
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Adequacy of Resources for 10 points, and
Quality of the Project Evaluation that is
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worth 15 points. So there will be a total
of 100 possible points that an applicant
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can earn. Applicants should carefully
review all selection criteria and sub
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criteria and address all in their
applications.
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Whats in here is the criteria for
significance which is worth 10 points
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and its sub criteria. As you see listed
here that the five factors are sub
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criteria under significance include the
significance of the problem are issues
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to be addressed by the proposed project,
the magnitude or severity of the
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proposed problem to be addressed by the
proposed project,
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the extent to which specific gaps or
weaknesses in services, infrastructure,
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or opportunities have been identified and
will be addressed by the proposed
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project including the nature and
magnitude of those gaps or weaknesses.
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The potential contribution of the
proposed project to increase knowledge
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or understanding of educational problems
issues are effective strategies; and the
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potential replicability of the proposed
project or strategies including as
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appropriate the potential for
implementation in a variety of settings.
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So I'm not going to read each of the
sub criteria here for
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for the remaining five selection
criterion but please note that the
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selection criterion are also in the NIA
and the application package an applicant
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should carefully review. Here is the
quality of project here for the quality
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of project services is worth 25 points.
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The quality of project of the project
design is worth 20 points, and it's
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following sub criteria.
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Here's quality of management plan and its
worth 20 points and it's following in
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its sub criteria.
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Adequacy of resources worth ten points.
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Quality of project and project evaluation it's
worth 15 points.
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In addition to the six selection
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criteria applicants will also need to
address General and Special Requirements.
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Applicants should list in the table of
contents all general and special
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requests, special and other requirements
for the priority and along with the
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corresponding page number or number
where requirements are addressed within
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the application. This will assist
reviewers in the review process.
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The general special requirements for
this particular priority are projects
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funded under this notice must make
positive efforts to employ and advance in
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employment qualified individuals with
disabilities in project activities, and
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you can see this under Section 606 of
IDEA. And applicants and grant recipients
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funded under this notice must involve
individuals with disabilities or
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parents of individuals with disabilities
ages birth through 26 in planning,
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implementing, and evaluating the project
and you can see this under
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section 682(a)(1)(a) of IDEA.
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If applicants have any additional questions after reviewing
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this competition specific webinar I
encourage you to contact me. Thank you
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for your time and your attention as you navigate the process
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of applying for the Stepping Up
Technology Implementation Grant
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opportunity.
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