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Meeting Date:
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6/21/2018 - 7:00 PM
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Category:
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Consent Calendar
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Type:
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Action
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Subject:
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Title IV, Part A Grant Application
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Objective 1.1
Educational Excellence ACPS will regularly assess and respond to the needs, interests, and abilities of individual students.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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File Attachment:
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Agenda Item Summary:
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In March of 2018, ACPS staff began planning use of current Title IV, Part A grant funding to increase structured nutrition and physical education in the West End elementary schools. Implementation will begin in the fall of 2018 and a large portion of funds will go towards professional development for ACPS teachers. The program will support academic enrichment through the following activities:
1. Sustained focus on students’ monitoring of their own heart rates (with recording and analysis of data integrated into STEM lessons);
2. Sustained focus on students’ monitoring of their exercise regimen and its impact upon their sense of personal well-being (with recording of FitBit data to determine their patterns of exercise and its relationship to their psychological sense of well-being); and
3. Support for students to enhance their understanding of general nutrition while emphasizing fruit and vegetable intake (with STEM lessons to include the study of nutritional choices in each of the early learning grades and taste-testing activities).
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Background:
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Continued funds from this grant support ACPS 2020 Goal 5 (Health and Wellness) objectives:
• 5.3 Physical Fitness, Recreation, and Play
ACPS will promote activities and curricula designed to promote lifelong commitments to active, healthy lifestyles among its students and to creative expression.
• 5.5 Healthy Meals and Nutrition
ACPS will ensure that all students are ready to learn by having the benefit of access to nutritious, appealing school meals and that lessons on the importance of nutritious foods are included in the curriculum.
Additionally, funding would offer sustainability and the possibility for expansion into additional West End Schools (i.e., Samuel Tucker and Ferdinand T. Day) as well as schools on the East End with higher Free and Reduced Meals (FARM) rates (i.e., Cora Kelly and Mt. Vernon).
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board approve the application for Title IV, Part A grant funding for 2018-2019.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Lois Berlin -
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Vote Results:
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| Original Motion | | Member Christopher J. Lewis Moved, Member William E. Campbell seconded to approve the Original motion 'The Superintendent recommends that the School Board approve the application for Title IV, Part A grant funding for 2018-2019.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 8 Nay: 0. | | The motion Carried 8 - 0 | | | | | Ronnie Campbell | Yes | | William E. Campbell | Yes | | Karen Graf | Yes | | Christopher J. Lewis | Yes | | Ramee A. Gentry | Yes | | Margaret Lorber | Yes | | Cindy Anderson | Yes | | Veronica R. Nolan | Yes | |
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