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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1421 |
| Transforming Classroom Learning and Performance |
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| Requester: |
Trudie Kibbe Reed, President |
Organization: |
Bethune-Cookman College |
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| Project Title: |
Transforming Classroom Learning and Performance |
Date Submitted |
1/11/2006 5:19:26 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Hill |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Raising Student Achievement through an initiative of the Institute for Civic Participation and Social Responsibility focused on expanding an existing model leadership development and service learning program for at-risk students and a statewide training program providing technical and diagnostic skills for educators who work with at risk, low performing students. |
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| Recipient: |
Bethune Cookman College |
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Contact: |
Shirley Range, Interim VP for College Advancement |
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640 Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd. |
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Contact Phone: |
(386) 451-2983 |
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Daytona Beach 32114 |
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Contact email: |
ranges@cookman.edu |
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| Counties: |
Volusia |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| This program will focus on the needs of at risk students who do not easily conform to or achieve in the traditional classroom environment and through conventional teaching methods. Focused on assisting "divergent learners". This program raises understanding among both students and teachers. The program is dual purposed in that it will build on an existing model where area students who have been struggling, or have been labeled as "difficult to reach" will be engaged in a leadership development and service learning program that coaches, mentors and educates in a learning community featuring value formation sessions and will mobilize a cohort of teachers across the state of Florida capable of recognizing and teaching "divergent learners." Program will utilize the assistance of leading experts in the field and AmeriCorp students. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Program is a proven model currently being adapted and piloted as an effective intervention in helping to increase the number of area students who raise their grades, and assume roles as productive citizens. Providing new methods for the teachers in the delivery of instruction, use of technology and curriculum design, and in helping marginal students learn and embrace new behaviors that help them become academic achievers, the program will focus on raising individual and collective FCAT performance, reducing drop out rates and will address improvements in self discipline and self control among students. Divergent learning expert, Dr. Carol Johnson who recently joined Bethune-Cookman College faculty and is nationally recognized for ground breaking research and program implementation will supervise the program. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$1,000,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$1,500,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Private |
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Cash Amount |
$200,000 |
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In-kind Amount |
$350,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$100,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations, Non recurring operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Institutional, Local, State and National Assessments, private studies and published research. |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Volusia County Legislative Delegation |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
12/15/2005 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
