Specifications include, but are not limited to: Th The Contractor shall: 1. Provide the following services and products listed below. Components may be modified through negotiations and/or by written contract modification issued by the Virginia Department of Education and will be made a part of the Agreement. The contract awardee will provide services and products to the Virginia Department of Education for the Mathematics High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) Training of Trainers. This project will be supported by a contract with a vendor providing two main projects (services and products) for Mathematics: 1) training for contracted math textbook reviewers to assess the components of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM); and 2) training for math trainers for the Math Standards of Learning, crosswalk between 2023/24 standards and NAEP, and HQIM to support implementation of standards. The department 4 has two similar RFPs for English and Mathematics and is willing to split the contract into two projects for ELA and two projects for Mathematics. 2. Project One: develop and facilitate training on textbook and resources and how HQIM should be designed to meet new ELA and Math Standards. The targeted audience for the training will be state-approved textbook reviewers, which may include school division personnel: teachers, principals, administrators, content specialists, reading and mathematics specialists, or other educators who have content-area expertise. As deliverables, the contractor will have to develop 12 hours of training content on HQIM and 2023 Mathematics Standards of Learning, host one in person day (6 hours of delivery) and one virtual day of training (6 hours of delivery) on approved training content for each content area (contractors can be separated for two content areas of ELA and Mathematics), provide model textbook evaluation tools for each content area (contractors can be separated for two content areas), and support the VDOE in technical assistance of the review of HQIM. HQIM training should be aligned to the Council of Chief State School Officers’ guidance on HQIM, including professional learning focused on adopting and launching a curriculum with HQIM, providing ongoing support to teachers as they implement HQIM, and designing systems that foster ongoing professional learning for teachers to build the capacity of school leaders to drive strong HQIM implementation. 3. Project Two A: develop training on the implementation of Mathematics Standards of Learning for the train the trainer experts for the 2024 Summer Symposiums. The targeted audience for the training will be state-approved trainers, which may include school division personnel: teachers, principals, administrators, content specialists, reading and mathematics specialists, or other educators who have content-area expertise. (Contractors can be separated for two content areas.) This training must include 3 hours of content for Mathematics (contractors can be separated for two content areas), 3 hours of content on HQIM and the standards, 3 hours of content on lesson planning cycle, and 3 hours on coaching models to support implementation of standards, HQIM, and the lesson planning cycle. Contractors must use existing resources including the VLA Implementation Playbook (for ELA), HQIM deliverables used during Spring 2024 Literacy Implementation Network (for ELA) and the lesson planning cycle (for ELA and Mathematics) as foundational components of this training.
