Consistent with local planning requirements and its needs assessment, the Title II, Part A program offers an LEA the flexibility to design and implement a wide variety of activities that can promote a teaching staff that is highly qualified and able to help all students -- regardless of individual learning needs -- achieve challenging State content and academic achievement standards. Funds can also be used to provide school principals with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead their schools’ efforts in increasing student academic achievement. For example, the statute specifically authorizes the following types of activities:

1. Developing and implementing mechanisms to assist schools to effectively recruit and retain highly qualified teachers, principals, and specialists in core academic areas (and other pupil services personnel in special circumstances).

2. Developing and implementing strategies and activities to recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified teachers and principals. 

3. Providing professional development activities that improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, in:

   a. Content knowledge. Providing training in one or more of the core academic subjects that the teachers teach; and

   b. Classroom practices. Providing training to improve teaching practices and student academic achievement through (a) effective instructional strategies, methods, and skills, and (b) the use of challenging State academic content standards and student        academic achievement standards in preparing students for the State assessments.

4. Providing professional development activities that improve the knowledge of teachers and principals and, in appropriate cases, paraprofessionals, regarding effective instructional practices .

5. Developing and implementing initiatives to promote retention of highly qualified teachers and principals, particularly in schools with a high percentage of low-achieving students, including programs that provide teacher mentoring from exemplary teachers and administrators, induction, and support for new teachers and principals during their first three years; and financial incentives to retain teachers and principals with a record of helping students to achieve academic success.

6. Carrying out programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teaching force.

7. Carrying out professional development programs that are designed to improve the quality of principals and superintendents, including the development and support of academies to help them become outstanding managers and educational leaders.

8. Hiring highly qualified teachers, including teachers who become highly qualified through State and local alternate routes to certification.

9. Carrying out teacher advancement initiatives that promote professional growth and emphasize multiple career paths (such as paths to becoming a mentor teacher)

Based on Current Needs Assessments Bcs Is Currently Using Title Ii Funding To:

• Provide teacher tuition/praxis assistance

• Provide hard to staff sign on bonuses

• Provide Professional Development in areas identified by areas of weakness by stakeholders in bi-annual surveys and annual meetings.

• Implement Bogalusa FIRST (Framework for Inducting, Retaining and Supporting Teachers

Professional Development surveys are issued at the conclusion of each PD Session, and bi-annual surveys are provided to faculty and staff. Annual surveys are provided to students, parents, and stakeholders. This data is reviewed by the District Leadership Team each year prior to completing ESSA Title II Budgets.

Meeting Dates and Survey Links will be posted here when available