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| CARE | CHRYSALIS | NEW HORIZONS | MAKING THE GRADE |
| MAESTRA | SYNERGY | DESTINY (HEP) |
Project CARE
Critically Advancing Results from Educators
PROJECT CARE is a five-year federally
funded Title III grant which will provide 200 educators and related staff
with the support necessary to complete professional development in SIOP training
and with their ESL endorsement.
PRIMARY GOAL: Increase the number and enhance the
quality of ESL teachers and general classroom teachers needed to serve the
growing number of English Language Learners in targeted high need/low performing
schools in the Emporia, Kansas School District.
Project CHRYSALIS
PROJECT CHRYSALIS is a federally funded grant program developed in conjunction with the No Child Left Behind Act; which employs a professional development program designed to recruit, train, and retain ethnically diverse teachers in order to assist school districts in the State of Kansas to remove the cultural and linguistic barriers that hinder the understanding, effective communication, and the academic achievement of the increasing Limited English Proficiency (LEP) student populations.
PRIMARY GOAL: To increase the number of ESL endorsed educators in order to strengthen the language instruction educational programs in the Salina and Wichita School Districts, and to serve the ever-increasing needs of the growing LEP student population in these "high need" districts.
Project NEW HORIZONS
NEW HORIZONS is a federally funded
Title III grant, designed to maximize a research-based professional development
model that will strengthen the capacity of classroom teachers in these low
performing schools and provide training to become endorsed in English Second
Language (ESL) education.
PRIMARY GOAL: Increase the quantity
of and improve the quality of approximately 190 classroom teachers serving
ELL/LEP students
in these low-performing schools. This project is designed to improve teacher
preparedness through the SIOP professional development model in sheltered
instructional strategies.
Project MAKING THE GRADE
MAKING THE GRADE is a Training for All Teachers program aimed at recruiting new teachers each year to team with experienced educators over an eighteen week period to:
* Attend professional development activities to learn how to better meet the needs of English language learners/limited English proficient students,
* Team teach within their own content and grade level, and
* Develop adapted and modified curriculum for ELL/LEP students
PRIMARY GOAL: To provide for an effective Training for All Teachers program leading to systemic change, thus, preparing teachers to work successfully with all students and setting the stage for not only culturally and linguistically diverse students, but for all students to access post secondary opportunities in a highly competitive skills-based job market.
Project MAESTRA
PROJECT MAESTRA stands for Mentoring
Administrators and Educators through Sheltered Training: increasing Rural
student Achievement. Kansas State University (KSU) along with the Southwest
Plans Regional Service Center (SPRSC) have collaborated to develop a project
designed to provide rural educators with long-term, professional development
concerning the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students.
PRIMARY GOAL: The goal of Project MAESTRA is
to increase the number and enhance the quality of ESL teachers needed to
serve the growing number of LEP students in ten high-need rural Kansas
school districts.
Project SYNERGY
PROJECT SYNERGY is a National Professional development, funded
by the U.S. Department of Education’s office of English language Acquisition
under the provision of title III, is currently in its third year of operation.
This teacher preparation
project serves as a collaborative effort between Kansas State University
(KSU), Garden City Community College (GCCC), and Seward County Community
College (SCCC).
PRIMARY GOAL: The goal of Project Synergy is to increase the number of English as a Second
language (ESL) endorsed teachers with bilingual capacities, highly qualified
to meet the high standards of professional practice in the areas of south
west Kansas teacher capacities, highly qualified to meet the high school
standards of professional practice in the area of southwest Kansas teacher
with a high number of English Language Learners (ELL) and Limited English
Proficiency (LEP) students.
Project DESTINY
PROJECT DESTINY: Kansas State University’s
High School Equivalency Program (HEP), which began in 2001, serves approximately
75 students per year. All
of the
students
who attend HEP are from families whose primary source of income is migrant
and seasonal farmwork. Approximately 98 percent of HEP students are from Hispanic
ethnic descent. HEP students generally range in age from 17-21. They are recruited
to Kansas State University and its satellite offices in Region 1 (Garden City
Community College), Region 2 (Emporia School District) and Region 3 (El Centro
in Kansas City) through the efforts of an extensive recruitment network which
includes the State Departments of Education and Labor, local school districts
and community agencies.
PRIMARY GOAL: The goal of Project DESTINY is to
collaborate with local, state and national agencies and organizations to improve
education and related services
for migrant
children
and their families
through the development and study of programs and training addressed at specific
needs.
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