Community-school task force to improve Hispanic female student achievement

¶ … intervention used to address the program outcome, school and community leadership in its application to improving Hispanic 8th grade females is a creation of a community/school task force, or focus group to address these issues.

To make this decision I used mostly my intuition as it guided me towards this answer. Its simple and the research suggests it can be effectively and economically put into place.

This intervention is superior because it does not exist in the current school's system. Its superiority is measured by the amount of effort that is being placed in the intervention.

This intervention will draw upon selected members of the school's faculty extra time. This task force may need to replenish this resource.

Grant Proposal Draft

Executive Summary

The purpose of this proposal is to inform you about the efforts that our school is making to help achieve new levels of success. We are looking to help bring the school and community together in an effort to raise ideas and concerns that the leadership may advance on the students. We are seeking to create a task force that specifically addresses these issues.

Goals and Objectives

The goal of this task force creation is to set an example for community leadership to follow and improve student achievement. The task force will meet once a week and set its own agenda that addresses the issues and needs it has determined that can best draw the energy of the community together in a novel and positive manner.

Methods, Strategies or Program Design

The task force will consist of the principal of the school and selected faculty members of who are closely related to the Hispanic culture of both the school and the local community. Local business people, the city council member representative, the school board representative and other interested parties are designed to be on this task force. The group itself is not looking for anything specific at first, as this is more of a learning expedition to find out root causes of failure.

Evaluation

This program will be evaluated every three months, while on the 9th month a decision will be made to continue the program for another year. The evaluating parties will be designated by the task force group.

Funding or Sustainability

The task force is mostly self sustaining with only one major resource request of $5,000 for organizational supplies and research associated tasks.

Organizational Information

The school itself is mostly self-funded and organized by the school board. This is an extra effort to help draw in community leadership to help alleviate some problems, and simultaneously gain a benefit from improving the quality of the community and improve their own self-interest.

Budget

$5,000