VariQuest Funding Resources

COVID Funding Sources - CARES Act, CRRSA Act

• Create and customize directional posters, floor markers, and room labels to promote social distancing and designate restricted areas/entries
• Organize PPE equipment with custom labels for
  organization, cleaning and sanitization needs, and
  healthcare items
• Produce social-emotional learning supports including calming charts, mental health check-ins, feelings discussion diagrams, flash card exercise collections, and more

Title I

• Differentiate instruction for visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners.
• Reinforce teachings with visual representations, graphic organizers and tangible study aids.
• Encourage cooperative learning and peer recognition via group activity and award templates.

IDEA, Part B

• Supply instructional and hands-on, sensory equipment for all learners to reinforce educational concepts and a kinesthetic approach to learning.
• Promote activities which involve problem-solving, collaborative group work and critical thinking to develop 21st Century Skills.

Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act

• Provide occupationally-relevant equipment allowing the creation of displays for academic, entrepreneurial, and technical purposes.
• Deliver inclusive technology fit for operation and skill-building by learners of all needs and types.
• Support 16 career pathways, especially functions as they relate to student-run entrepreneurial venture programs.

Title IV, Part A - Student Support and Academic Enrichment

• Customize colorful posters and banners to foster healthy, drug-free schools, and build confident classrooms for greater student achievement.
• Implement STEM instruction with standards-aligned curriculum and manipulatives for a hands-on learning approach.
• Access online resources, including professional development, to maximize learning experiences backed by technology. 

Title IV, Part B - 21st Century Learning Centers

• Implement student-based enterprises to build real-world skills and career readiness.
• Promote community awareness by designing publication materials to encourage fundraising, involvement, and event-building efforts.

Association of Student Body Departments

• Create and sell customized posters and banners for profit—Prom and Homecoming Dances, graduation, athletic teams/players, birthdays, community business sponsors
• Create and sell customized bumper stickers for profit—school name and mascot, student of the month, honor roll members, school athletic teams

Charter Schools Program Funding

• Produce learning aids that represent core concepts in mathematical models, scientific forms, artistic images, historical replicas and more
• Incorporate instructional strategies that encourage student engagement
• Construct learning activities that meet the diverse needs of the 21st Century student populations

Literacy & STEM Grants

• Motivate students with personalized reading awards
• Create charts to communicate program goals and progress
• Reinforce key learning concepts by enlarging strategies and reminders
• Provide teachers with resources to visually show abstract STEM concepts through posters and banners for the classroom

Parent/Teacher Organizations

• Create posters to communicate fundraising programs and events such as book fairs, school carnivals, car washes, community yard sales and fun runs

The Partnerships in Character Education Program

• Post anti-bullying messages throughout the school
• Create posters to define and encourage positive attributes such as attitude, respect, citizenship, fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness
• Reward good character and good behavior through the use of awards and stickers

Title IIa - Developing High Quality Teachers and Principals

• Create progress maps for students and classes to track progress
• Provide recognition through customized awards created for each child, group, or class
• Provide teachers with tools to support key learning activities through poster-size maps, reminders, models, process maps, graphic organizers, etc.

Title III - English Language Acquisition

• Create bilingual classroom visuals and signage such as graphic translation, vocabulary posters, and bulletin boards
• Create a school environment where limited-English parents feel welcome and involved
• Reinforce vocabulary words with labels throughout the classroom
• Create bilingual awards that honor the first language of the student as well as reinforcing English

FFE List (Furniture, Fixtures, Equipment) and Construction BEL (Basic Equipment List)

• Make posters, cutouts, manipulatives and bulletin board displays for classroom instruction.
• Create building and parking lot signage to assist students, teachers and parents
• Post rules and expectations in every classroom

General Budget

• Save time by utilizing pre-designed poster, award and bulletin board templates

Title V, Part D - Gifted and Talented Education

• Create posters outlining multiple-step processes as part of the complexity pillar of differentiated instruction