| Improving Teaching |
| $37.4-million |
To provide schools with money to hire curriculum experts and pay participating teachers for their extra hours required by the improvement project, as well as for collecting and analyzing data about student performance |
| $5.1-million |
For stipends for education majors from eight local colleges and universities, who get course credit for working in schools, and for students, teachers, and college professors to attend retreats to discuss professional development |
| $3.2-million |
To help teachers learn to analyze data to determine what students and schools need, and to train teachers in new instructional strategies |
| $276,717 |
To help teachers prepare to go through national certification process |
| $271,000 |
To train teachers in schools that belong to the collaborative |
| $24,000 |
To hire consultants with specific areas of expertise to help teachers in areas such as reading instruction or child development |
| Peer Review |
| $1.2-million |
To teams of trained educators who review grant applications of those who wish to participate in the reform project, and annual gatherings for schools to evaluate each other’s progress |
| $11,500 |
To determine the feasibility of having groups of teachers use their classrooms for research in the reform effort |
| Evaluation |
| $1.6-million |
To Stanford University’s Center for Research on the Context of Teaching to evaluate entire program |
| $17,000 |
To hire an evaluator to work with one underperforming school to develop strategies for improvement |
| Minority Students |
| $515,400 |
For a staff person working with a small number of schools that are testing specific strategies for improving grades, test scores, and graduation rates of minority and low-income students |
| Helping School Administrators |
| $806,000 |
To prevent high turnover and burnout among school principals by restructuring the job, developing new approaches to evaluate principals, and putting them more closely in touch with classroom activities |
| $12,411 |
For a series of seminars to help schools review budgets and direct finances toward solving student-achievement problems |
| Technology |
| $1.3-million |
To design computer-based projects to assist teachers in devising strategies for improving student achievement |
| Improving the Curriculum |
| $1.7-million |
To develop academic programs that prepare students for specific careers |
| $1.4-million |
To help teachers develop curriculum by giving them access to the Library of Congress’s National Digital Library |
| Literacy |
| $241,000 |
To train school principals to set up systems for collecting information on student literacy and to train teachers to better help students improve their literacy skills |
| $63,000 |
To hire literacy expert to work with teachers in improving literacy skills among young students |
| Sharing Ideas |
| $2.2-million |
For annual conferences to discuss the school-improvement efforts that are working |
| $1.6-million |
For annual week-long retreats in which school employees, consultants, and parents analyze student-achievement problems, come up with strategies for tackling them, and devise ways to measure the success of those approaches |
| $94,000 |
For students to create a newspaper that reported on the school-improvement effort |
| $80,000 |
For representatives of schools to meet to design the school-improvement effort |
| Program Support |
| $2.5-million |
For the collaborative’s operating budget |
| $1.1-million |
To let the public know about the improvement effort — and how they can help |
| $870,000 |
To raise matching funds required to receive Annenberg Foundation money |
| $200,000 |
To hold focus groups and meetings to discuss the next five years of the program |
| $100,000 |
For meetings and retreats for the collaborative’s Board of Trustees |
| $100,000 |
For miscellaneous administrative expenses |
| $30,000 |
For a planning retreat for members of the collaborative staff |
| SOURCE: Bay Area School Reform Collaborative |
