Professional+Development+Grant+Writing

**Introduction to [|Professional Development Grant Writing] **

As a result of professional conversations with colleagues, the need to expand the staff's collective ability to meet the needs of struggling readers emerged. To address this need, I wrote a grant to support a three-year professional development plan for primary teachers, reading teachers, and special education teachers. As a result of this sustained professional development opportunity, teachers will have a greater capacity to meet the needs of students. By creating a common language and using our teaching resources differently, I predict a visible shift in theory and practice will occur, from individual responsibility to collective accountability. The staff will no longer be individuals teaching students, but a school providing instruction to our students.

**Reflection **

By developing highly diagnostic observation skills and a deeper understanding of the continuum of literacy development, each individual’s teaching will be more responsive to student needs. However, it is the sum of the parts that will generate the capacity to prevent reading failure across the school. Our teaching team will know what to observe for, how to provide extremely targeted instruction through modeling and prompting of reading behaviors.

Administrator Standard #3; Content Guideline C