Title II - Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals
Part D - Enhancing Education Through Technology
http://www.ed.gov/programs/edtech/index.html

Purpose - "...provides funds for innovative initiatives to support the integration of education technology into classrooms to improve teaching and learning." http://www.ed.gov/nclb/choice/schools/privbenefits/index.html  

• To improve student academic achievement through the use of technology in elementary schools and secondary school.

• To assist every student in crossing the digital divide by ensuring that every student is technologically literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the student’s race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability.
• To encourage the effective integration of technology resources and systems with teacher training and curriculum development to establish research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented as best practices by State educational agencies and local educational agencies.

Requirements for Title II-D funding:

• Technology Specific needs backed up by DATA

Some Examples of Eligible Activities for Title II-A funds

Therefore, uses could be, but are not limited to, if supported by data are:

• Professional Development in the area of technology integration
• Professional Development in the area of technology skills
• Purchase of a web portal that supports teacher training and resources
• Training in the use of the Internet
• Distance learning initiatives
• Software that is research based and supports student achievement to be used by students
• Some capital purchases for use by students
• Enhance parental involvement

Suggested Ideas for spending Title II-D funds

Purchase of software which is research based for students

Examples:  These are currently being used in TUSD in some schools…

• Graph Club (www.tomsnyder.com)

• Math Missions (www.tomsnyder.com)

• Brain Pop (www.brainpop.com) Subscription-based Internet use

• Roger Taylor (www.rogertaylor.com)

• Study Island Annual Membership (a leading provider of web-based state assessment preparation programs and standards based learning programs). (www.studyisland.com)

• Easy Tech Annual Membership an instructional system for technology integration that helps K-8 educators put technology to work across the curriculum to boost student achievement (www.learning.com)

Capital purchases

(These would need to be tied to Student Achievement)

• Smart Boards and Projectors

• Portable keyboards - AlphaSmart, The Writer

Membership to other Web Portals that support teacher training

Training on How-to-Use Excel Pivot Tables to do Student Data Analysis

Books such as Data Driven Decision Making by Bruce Wellman

Other web resources

Archived Archived Resource Guide to Federal Funding For Technology in Education http://www.ed.gov/Technology/tec-guid.html