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$$$$$$$$. Federal Programs PLC. How is this expenditure going to help our Donna I.S.D. students learn?. Maricela Valdez, Federal Programs Director. The first ingredient of success. Making good decisions has no real value without the second one, which is practicing good discipline.
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$$$$$$$$ Federal Programs PLC How is this expenditure going to help our Donna I.S.D. students learn? Maricela Valdez, Federal Programs Director
The first ingredient of success • Making good decisions has no real value without the second one, which is practicing good discipline. • Decisions help us start • Discipline helps us finish
A well written plan • Comprehensive needs assessments are beautiful • Strategies on CIP are beautiful • Tutorial proposals are beautiful • OFB’s are beautiful • Budgets are beautiful • BUT, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT YOUR RESULTS?
Dissect an account 211 .11 .6399 .00 .001 .24 .0 .00 211 .12 .6399 .00 .001 .24 .0 .00 164 .11 .6399 .00 .001 .30 .0 .00 164 .31 .6399 .00 .001 .30 .0 .00 162 .11 .6399 .00 .001 .25 .0 .00 OBJECT CODE (Dept.) FUND (Store) FUNCTION (Size) SCHOOL NUMBER
Functions • 11 – Students/Teachers • 12 – Library • 13 – Staff Development • 23 – Administration/Principal • 31 – Counselor • 32 – Clothing • 33 – Eyeglasses • 34 – Transportation • 36 – U.I.L./Extra curricular • 51 – Custodial • 61 - Parental
Plan! Plan! Plan! • Personal Paycheck has a plan • Grocery money should have a plan • Your future should have a financial plan • Your campus needs to have a financial plan
A plan drives your budget • Warehouse orders for the year • Consultants for the year • Travel for the year • Other campus priorities for the year • Prioritize what will be most effective • KEEP EVERYONE ALIGNED TO FEDERAL FUNDING GUIDELINES!!!!!!!!
Classroom- Make small changes that have large impacts. • Elementary 355 minutes/Secondary 390 minutes • Let’s make this time Highly Effective • Data leading decisions • Implement guided reading to the fullest extent • Provide quality guided reading centers
Classroom- Make small changes that have large impacts. • Math/Science classrooms – hands on activities/lots of questioning/lots of vocabulary/lots of monitoring • Parental communication and support
As a Campus • Identify students first • Review master schedule and find tutoring time. (See Sample) • Paraprofessionals during conference period • Counselors to visit high risk students daily • Coach 3rd grade multiplication/science vocabulary/sight words for 2nd.
As a Campus • Utilize college math tutors • Utilize college reading tutors • Organize as needed to meet all student needs • Monitor! Monitor! Monitor! - Progress
Once day is fully utilized you proceed with tutorials • Less students needing assistance • Less teachers needed • Less funding needed • AYP Campuses are applying for additional funding
Budgets 2012-2013 • 162 Bilingual • 164 State • 211 Title I • 212 Migrant • 255 Teacher/Principal Training • 263 Immigrant • See handout – budgets grouped together
Questions answered before approval • Is this expenditure going to help our Donna I.S.D. students learn? • Was the item identified as a need on the comprehensive needs assessment? • Is the item/strategy identified on the CIP? • How will it be evaluated? • Is it reasonable and necessary? • Is it supplemental?
Federal Programs Services • Run campus budget balances for you • Answer any and all questions on budgets • Assist in making recommendations on budget changes to meet campus needs • Take you through the process from beginning to end • Monitor tutorial funds for you • Recycle funds to meet everyone’s needs
Approval at the Federal Programs Office • ALLrequisitions are approved daily • ALL travel is approved within 24 hours assuming there are no errors • ALL contract services are approved within 24 hours assuming there are no errors • ALL field trips, extra duty pay, tutorial proposals, OFB’s, etc. approved within 24 hrs.
Keep in mind….. • “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” • The change is most significant when you have properly planned your expenditures. • Our students deserve it!