| Funding Source |
Purpose |
VariQuest Alignment |
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Title I
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Supports academic achievement, specifically helping low-income students meet performance. |
- 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.
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IDEA, Part B
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Offer differentiated instructional support to raise educational success for all students and close the achievement gap |
- 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.
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Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act
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Support career and technical education programs; strengthen the connections between secondary and post-secondary education and careers |
- 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.
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Title IV, Part A - Student Support and Academic Enrichment
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Provide students with a safe, well-rounded, technology-supported learning environment for improved academic achievement |
- 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.
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Title IV, Part B - 21st Century Learning Centers
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Support additional services, programs, and activities that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students |
- 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.
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Association of Student Body Departments
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Raise funds and encourage school pride |
- 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
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Charter Schools Program Funding
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Increase the number of high-quality charter schools available to students |
- 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
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Literacy & STEM Grants
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Support goals and key concepts of awarded 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
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Parent/Teacher Organizations
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Raise funds through parent, teacher, student and community involvement |
- Create posters to communicate fundraising programs and events such as book fairs, school carnivals, car washes, community yard sales and fun runs
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The Partnerships in Character Education Program
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Support school, state and community character education initiatives |
- 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
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Title IIa - Developing High Quality Teachers and Principals
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Increase the number of highly qualified teachers, principals, and assistant principals, and hold schools accountable for improvements in student academic achievement |
- 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.
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Title III - English Language Acquisition
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Promote language instruction for limited English proficient and immigrant students |
- 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
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FFE List (Furniture, Fixtures, Equipment) and Construction BEL (Basic Equipment List)
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Communicate through the use of building signs and posters |
- 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
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General Budget
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Help teachers, administrators, volunteers and staff work more effectively and improve student achievement |
- Save time by utilizing pre-designed poster, award and bulletin board templates
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Title V, Part D - Gifted and Talented Education
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Support differentiated instruction |
- Create posters outlining multiple-step processes as part of the complexity pillar of differentiated instruction
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