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The Comprehensive School Reform Capacity-Building Grants are intended to help organizations improve the quality of their reform models and satisfy increased demand from schools that want to adopt those models. In September 2000, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement awarded $37 million to 15 groups to improve and expand their national CSR models. To qualify, the groups had to show their models are operating successfully in at least 15 schools and that there is a significant unmet demand for their services.
In an effort to serve more schools well over time, the Capacity-Building Grants emphasize "scaling up" to accommodate more clients, tracking data, offering feedback on professional development, and gauging the usefulness of materials, effectiveness for special populations and low-performing schools, staff support, and evenness of implementation over multiple sites.
For more information about Capacity-Building Grants, contact Lisa Ward at (202) 219-0372, or via email at Lisa Ward@ed.gov
THE GRANTEES
America's Choice School Design Model (ACSD)
ATLAS Communities Model
Child Development Project Model
Community for Learning Model
Co-nect Model
Different Ways of Knowing Model
Effective Schools Model
The Literacy Collaborative Model
Modern Red Schoolhouse Model
Onward to Excellence II (OTE II) Model
QuESt-Quality Educational Systems: Tools for Transformation Model
School Development Program Model
Success for All/Roots and Wings Model
Talent Development Model
Whole School Change Model
Grantee: National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), One Thomas Circle, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 2005
Project Director: Mary Anne Mays, 202-783-3668, mamays@ncee.org
Total Funding: $2,992,974 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Based on ACSD-developed performance standards and assessments and math and English/language arts curricula that match the standards, which all students are expected to meet
Population Served: K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Maintain high quality while ensuring that ACSD's burgeoning staff gets the orientation and training it needs to increase the model's capacity for growth
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
Number of Sites: 91 schools, a large proportion in New York City; Rochester, New York; Washington, DC; Hawaii, and Jacksonville, Florida (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 100-150 schools to the ACSD network
Grantee: Education Development Center, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
Project Director: Linda Gerstle, 617-969-7100, lgerstle@edc.org
Total Funding: $2,999,955 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Internally driven transformation and community building fueled by changes in beliefs, behaviors and relationships and by the Teaching for Understanding framework
Population Served: Pre-K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Improve communication of the ATLAS core philosophy and tenets, evaluate implementation success more clearly and consistently, and create a system that provides ATLAS with feedback on the quality and effectiveness of its services
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: Rosenblum Brigham Associates
Number of Sites: Nearly 100 schools in 13 states across the country (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 80 schools with regional dissemination strategy
Grantee: Development Studies Center (DSC), 2000 Embarcadero, Suite 305, Oakland, CA 94606
Project Director: Eric Schaps, 510-533-0213, eric_schaps@devstu.org
Total Funding: $2,798,800 for 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: A comprehensive, multifaceted school change program that supports students' academic achievement and fosters their social and ethical development
Population Served: K-6
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: To strengthen the literacy component of the model and build the Development Studies Center's capacity to disseminate the model effectively to greater numbers of schools
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: TBA
Number of Sites: 28 schools in 4 states (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 35-50 schools and prepare to add another 35-50 schools
Grantee: Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 933 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Project Director: JoAnn Manning, 215-204-3001, jmanning@nimbus.temple.edu
Total Funding: $2,353,755 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Unites people and resources to improve teaching and learning, with a focus on urban and rural schools with a high concentration of disadvantaged students
Population Served: Pre-K-12
Model Essential Components
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Incorporate advances in research and practical applications to effectively respond to diverse student populations and enhance technical assistance offered to schools
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluators: Kenneth Wong of the University of Chicago and Barbara McCombs of the University of Denver
Number of Sites: 136 schools (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 6 regional demonstration-professional development centers
Grantee: Co-nect, Inc., 1770 Massachusetts Ave., No. 301, Cambridge, MA 02140
Project Director: Bruce Goldberg, 617-995-3151, bgoldberg@co-nect.net
Total Funding: $2,256,729 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Population Served: K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Increase the number of rural and isolated schools served, strengthen literacy and mathematics components of curriculum, develop and implement a process to continually assess and improve the model
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluators: University of Memphis Center for Research, Rockman et al
Number of Sites: 135 schools in more than 60 districts in 27 states and the District of Columbia (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 175 schools
Grantee: The Galef Institute, 5670 Wilshire Blvd, 20th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036-5623
Project Director: Sue Beauregard, 310-479-8883, sue@galef.com
Total Funding: $2,997,347 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Arts-infused, integrated curriculum that is aligned to standards and follows a four-phase model
Population Served: Elementary and middle schools
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Develop a data-collection and feedback system, develop processes and materials designed to help staff address the needs of lowest-performing schools, track effectiveness of materials and model
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: James S. Catterall, UCLA
Number of Sites: 197 schools across the country (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Assist 80 new partnerships and 39 others in various stages of development with upgraded technical assistance
Grantee: National Indian School Board Association, P.O. Box 790, Polson, MT 59860
Project Director: Carmen Cornelius Taylor, 406-883-3603, carmen_taylor@skc.edu
Total Funding: $1,978,115 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Provides a framework, aligned with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, that includes a common language and common goals for improvement of Indian schools
Population Served: Tribal schools on Indian reservations
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Refine and build capacity to use a continuous improvement process, strengthen curriculum and instruction, develop processes to support the lowest-performing schools, develop processes to serve special populations of students, and expand to serve more schools
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: John Tippeconnic of Pennsylvania State University
Number of Sites: 17 schools in 7 states
Scaling Up: Add 17 schools
Grantee: Lesley College, The Center for Reading Recovery, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
Project Director: Irene Fountas, 617-349-8406, ifountas@leslev.edu
Total Funding: $2,967,690 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Provides long-term professional development and systemic support for teachers who are helping children learn effective literacy skills
Population Served: Grades K-6
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Expand the current K-2 Literacy Collaborative model to include an intermediate (grade 3-6) component, and develop a district-based model for training primary and intermediate-level literacy coordinators
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: Program Evaluation and Research Group
Number of Sites: More than 250 schools and 100 districts (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 20 schools
Grantee: Modern Red Schoolhouse Institute, 208 23rd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37203
Project Director: Sally B. Kilgore, 615-320-8804, skilgore@mrsh.org
Total Funding: $951,998 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Standards-driven instruction for high-poverty, low-performing schools
Population Served: K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Develop a Web-based instructional support system for teachers
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: Center of Excellence for Research and Policy on Basic Skills
Number of Sites: 90 schools in 24 states (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 34 sites
Grantee: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 101 SW Main, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97204
Project Director: Robert E. Blum, 503-275-9615, blumb@nwrel.org
Total Funding: $2,646,458 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Research-based model for high-poverty, low-performing schools served by a network of six centers
Population Served: K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Create a system in which schools, trainers, and regional centers can chart implementation and progress of OTE II schools
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator:Dickson Corbett and Bruce Wilson
Number of sites: 48 schools in 14 states
Scaling Up: Add 29 sites
Grantee: Quality Educational Systems, 4 Office Park Circle, Suite 315, Birmingham, AL 35223
Project Director: Diane Rivers, 205-879-9161, sdrivers@aol.com
Total Funding: $930,000 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Based on the philosophy and belief that school improvement starts with changes in process. The model is designed to improve all aspects of the school environment in an integrated fashion
Population Served: Middle schools
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Increase student learning through curriculum mapping and alignment of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies with state standards, best instructional practices, and state-level assessments
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: T. R. Carr, Southern Illinois University
Number of Sites: 45 schools in 3 states (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 14 rural middle schools in 14 states
Grantee: Yale University, 53 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510-3208
Project Director: Edward Joyner, 203-737-1020, edward.joyner@yale.edu
Total Funding: $2,575,892 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: To help teachers, parents, and administrators bring about change in schools and districts in high-poverty and often isolating environments that put students at risk. It uses education to break the cycle of poverty and gives students a chance to enter the mainstream.
Population Served: K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: To strengthen and expand the model's instructional services and improve the effectiveness of program implementation
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: George Noblitt, William Malloy and Carol Malloy of University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Number of Sites: 400 schools in 21 states (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: Add 10 new rural school districts and 3 trainers and launch 3 Teaching and Learning Academies for 30 school districts
Grantee: Success for All Foundation, 200 W. Towsontown Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21204
Project Director: Robert Slavin, 410-616-2310, rslavin@successforall.net
Total Funding: $2,982,434 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Improving elementary student achievement in reading and mathematics especially in high-poverty schools
Population Served: K-6
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: To implement a broad range of improvements in the model's materials and training, all designed to increase school performance on state accountability measures
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
Number of Sites: 1,800 schools
Grantee: Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-3888
Project Director: James McPartland, 410-516-8803, jmcpartland@csos.jhu.edu
Total Funding: $2,995,434 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Helping to turn around low-performing middle schools and high schools that have both high-poverty students and weak learning environments
Population Served: Grades 7-12, especially high-poverty students in urban and rural areas
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objectives: Create smaller learning communities through such approaches as career academies; implement high-standards curricula and effective instruction; improve partnerships among schools, parents, and other community members; improve professional development for teachers and school staff
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluators: Manpower Research Demonstration Corporation and H. Dickson Corbett and Bruce Wilson
Number of Sites: 47
Scaling Up: Add 12 to 16 new sites each year in large districts of several states, including Texas and New Jersey
Grantee: The Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools Foundation, 6 Beacon St., #615, Boston, MA 02108-3810
Project Director: Ellen C. Guiney, 617-227-8055, eguiney@bpe.org
Total Funding: $3,000,000 over 3 years, beginning September 30, 2000
Model Focus: Provides intensive, on-site professional development linked to district learning standards and specific needs of each school's students and has been credited by outside evaluators with changing teacher practice and improving student achievement
Population Served: K-12
Model Essential Components:
Capacity-Building Project Primary Objective: Establish a district-level focus for comprehensive school reform
Capacity-Building Project Description:
Third-Party Evaluator: Education Matters and Policy Studies Associates
Number of Sites: 122 schools (as of Fall, 2000)
Scaling Up: An additional 8 schools to encompass the entire Boston school district