Specifications include, but are not limited to: Funds for requested services are allocated through federal funds. The intent of this proposal is to provide job-embedded professional development and on-site consultation to teachers and administrators during the 2019 – 2020 school term. Professional learning and student test preparation activities must be specifically designed to increase the academic success of all subgroups of students as measured by the Mississippi Assessment Program. Specific, attainable growth goals will be determined and agreed upon between the service provider and the Walthall County School District administrative team. These services shall be provided to Dexter Elementary during the 2019-2020 school term. The services should include K – 8th grade ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies content areas of intense on-site job-embedded professional learning, consultative services, student support and classroom management that is conducted within the classroom with students and teachers and with building-level school administrators, leadership skills for administrators. Job embedded professional learning will include data analysis, data-driven Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards, reading instruction in the content areas, instructional coaching, modeling of instruction, and student test preparation for MAAP re-testing and firsttime test takers. Services should also include Service Providers will be required to submit: • Written reports to the superintendent, assistant superintendent/instructional supervisor, building level administrator, and assistant superintendent/federal programs director within two days of a site visit. • On-site briefings with the superintendent and appropriate district-level administrators. Content-Based Professional Learning: The project must focus on professional learning in K – 8th grade ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies content areas based on Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards, as well as reading instruction in the content areas for teachers in grades K-12. Alignment to the K – 8th grade ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards and the National Staff Development Council Standards must be well defined. Each project will be required to implement a professional learning model which includes intensive onsite professional development.
