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 **Innovate-Educate and NMSTE Announce ** ** Qwest Innovation Grants ** C ompetitive Mini-Grant Application Package Grant Applications

Non APS: & read below

APS ONLY:

Application Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2009 Administered by Innovate-Educate  Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant Application

The Qwest Foundation has allocated to Innovate-Educate $25,000 through a Qwest Foundation for Education Grant to be awarded to non-APS (APS grants also available) PreK-12 teachers who demonstrate an innovative use of technology with students. The funds may be used to purchase the following for use in the classroom: supplies and materials, technology, or professional development activities. Any non-disposable supplies and materials or capital objects purchased are the property of the district or school that is awarded the grant. Funds will be awarded during the 2009-2010 school year. Recipients will be awarded in November 2009. The funds must be spent by May 30, 2010. **Deadline for the Award: The application must be postmarked by October 30, 2009. **
 * Introduction **

The purpose of this grant is to:

 For the Innovate-Educate submissions, there will be a competitive priority on the use of virtual technologies. In other words, those grants submitted that address the use of virtual resources to reach more teachers/students will be given priority over other submissions. Sustainability and scalability are also a priority. Proposals postmarked after that date will not be considered. Certified PreK-12 school teachers are eligible to receive a maximum of one Mini-Grant award.
 * 1) Recognize teachers who are using technology in innovative ways with students;
 * 2) Increase an awareness of how teachers are using technology in the classroom;
 * 3) Models best practices with technology integration improving student achievement.
 * Timelines **
 * 1) ** Mini-Grant proposals must be postmarked by October 30, 2009. **
 * 1) Mini-Grants can be applied for in the amounts of $2,500 and $5,000.
 * 2) Panel or poster session presentations of awarded projects will be made at the Innovate-Educate /STE Spring Conference in April 2010.
 * Eligibility **

Award Process ** The Qwest Foundation for Education Grant requires that Mini-Grants be awarded through a competitive proposal process. All proposals will be read and judged by a committee comprised of PreK-12 educators, district administrators, distinguished community leaders, elected officials and available Qwest staff. This panel will determine those applications that best meet the funding criteria using the rubric and scoring sheet included in this application package. Innovate-Educate and NMSTE will notify awardees in person in November 2009.
 * Assistance **
 * Please contact jamai@innovate-educate.org for any questions

Educators who are awarded a Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant agree to participate in the creation of a digitally videotaped technology based lesson or showcase of the project. Educators who are awarded are required to supply proper student release for videotaping permission. Qwest will assist Innovate-Educate in digitizing the video for purposes of sharing Best Teaching Practices via the World Wide Web. The digital video snippet will be posted on the Innovate-Educate website.
 * Required Video Taping **

Educators who are awarded a Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant agree to participate in a panel or poster session on integrating technology in the classroom to other PreK-12 educators showcasing the project.
 * Required Presentation **

Innovate-Educate will require from each awardees, a report on the expenditure of funds as well as a narrative detailing how the goals of your project were met through this award. Guidelines and specific timeline will be provided to each participant awarded funds by through the Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant Program.  Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant Application Procedure
 * Required Reports **

Each Certificated PreK-12 classroom educator may apply for one Mini-Grant and must complete all of the following steps. Please review the following resources for guidance:
 * Introduction **

· ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) NETS (National Education Technology Standards) for Teachers and Students ( [] ) · See Appendix A – Proposal Scoring Rubric


 * Step 1. **Complete the Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant Application Assurance Sheet included in this application package.


 * Step 2. **Prepare a one-page narrative description of your project goals. Indicate clearly the learning and skill development that will occur for both the students and the teacher as a result of their participation in the project. (Use Project Goals page included in this application package.)


 * Step 3. **Prepare a one-page narrative description of how you will use technology with students in innovative ways (with a priority on virtual resources)


 * Step 4. **Prepare a one-page narrative description of how your student-centered use of technology will impact student performance.


 * Step 5. **Prepare a one-page budget narrative of what you are proposing to use the funds and how these funds will enhance your work with students. (Use Budget Narrative page included in this application package.)

 Assemble the proposal application and include **__7 copies of the following, IN ADDITION to the SIGNED ORIGINAL__** in the order listed below, stapled upper left:
 * Step 6. **Prepare a proposed budget. (Use Proposed Budget page included in this application package.)


 * Page 1: **Assurance Sheet
 * Page 2: **Narrative Page – Project Goals
 * Page 3: **Narrative Page – How You will use Technology with Students in Innovative Ways as Aligned to ISTE’s Technology Standards
 * Page 4: **Narrative Page – How Your Student-Centered Use of Technology Will Impact Student Performance as Aligned to the State’s Academic and Technology Standards
 * Page 5: **Narrative Page – Budget Narrative
 * Page 6: **Proposed Budget

Submit the original and 7 copies of your proposal via regular mail and one electronic copy of your proposal (e-mail or disk) postmarked on or before October 30, 2009 to:
 * NO supplemental materials will be accepted. **
 * NO faxed applications will be accepted. **
 * No late postmarks will be accepted. **
 * You may also email the proposal and scan the original signature page **
 * Email to: **
 * Jamai@innovate-educate.org **

Innovate-Educate New Mexico Jamai Blivin, Executive Director, Innovate-Educate P. O. Box 9919, Santa Fe, 87504 (505) 629-7071  Qwest Classroom Technology Integration ** Appendix A **
 * Qwest Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grant Application Proposal Scoring Rubric **
 * || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 ||
 * 1. Prepare a one-page narrative description of your project goals. Indicate clearly the learning and skill development that will occur for both the students and the teacher as a result of their participation in the project.  || Ø  The project goals for students and teacher are not clearly stated and/or are not related to project activities. || Ø  The project goals for students and teacher are clearly stated but not related to project activities. || Ø  The project goals for students and teacher are somewhat clearly stated and related to the project activities. || Ø  The project goals for students and teacher are very clearly stated and related to the project activities. ||
 * 2. Prepare a narrative description of how you will use technology with students in innovative ways, as aligned to the ISTE Standards.  || Ø  The proposal does not address how the teacher will use technology with students in innovative ways, as aligned to the ISTE Standards || Ø  The proposal provides minimal details regarding how the teacher will use technology with students in innovative ways, as aligned to the ISTE Standards. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The proposal provides some details describing how the teacher will use technology with students in innovative ways, as aligned to the ISTE Standards. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The proposal describes in detail how the teacher will use technology with students in innovative ways, as aligned to the ISTE Standards. ||
 * 3. Prepare a narrative description of how your student-centered use of technology will impact student performance, as aligned to the ISTE Technology Standards  || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The proposal does not provide a narrative description outlining student-centered use of technology that will impact student performance, as aligned to the ISTE Technology Standards. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The proposal provides minimal details in a narrative description outlining student-centered use of technology that will impact student performance, as aligned to the ISTE Technology Standards. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The proposal provides sufficient details in a narrative description outlining student-centered use of technology that will impact student performance, as aligned to the ISTE Technology Standards. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The proposal provides a detailed narrative description outlining student-centered use of technology that will impact student performance, as aligned to the ISTE Technology Standards. ||
 * 4. Prepare a budget narrative of what you are proposing to purchase and how this purchase will enhance your work with students, and correlate to proposed Expenditure Plan.  || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The budget narrative does not provide a description of what you are proposing to purchase and how this purchase will enhance your work with students. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The budget narrative provides a minimal description of what you are proposing to purchase and how this purchase will enhance your work with students. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The budget narrative provides an adequate description of what you are proposing to purchase and how this purchase will enhance your work with students. || <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; msobidifontfamily: Wingdings; msofareastfontfamily: Wingdings; msolist: Ignore;">Ø  The budget narrative provides detailed description of what you are proposing to purchase and how this purchase will enhance your work with students. ||


 * || The ** ISTE **  ||
 * ** National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•T) ** ||
 * and ** Performance Indicators ** for **Teachers** ||
 * <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">Effective teachers model and apply the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS•S) as they design, implement, and assess learning experiences to engage students and improve learning; enrich professional practice; and provide positive models for students, colleagues, and the community. All teachers should meet the following standards and performance indicators. Teachers: ||
 * ** 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity ** ||
 * <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers: ||
 * ** a. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness ** b. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources ** c. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes ** d. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments ||
 * ** 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments ** ||
 * <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers: ||
 * ** a. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity ** b. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress ||
 * ** c. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources ** d. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching ||
 * ** 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning ** ||
 * <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers: ||
 * ** a. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations ** b. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation ||
 * ** c. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats ** d. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning ||
 * ** 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility **  ||
 * <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers: ||
 * ** a. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources ** b. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies and providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources ||
 * ** c. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information ** d. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools ||
 * ** 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership ** ||
 * <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers: ||
 * ** a. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning ** b. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others ||
 * ** c. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning ** d. **<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community ||
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