Improving Literacy Through School Libraries

Improving Literacy Through School Libraries			OMB No. XXXX-XXXX Exp. Date:XX /XX/XXXX
Cover Sheet/Final Grant Report	1) PR/Award No
See Block 5 on the Grant Award Notification.	S364A07______
District Common Core Data Number
http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch	2) Project Title
Enter the same title as on the approved application.
	3) Recipient Information
Repeat from Block 1 on Grant Award Notification. If address has changed, provide the current address.	Name:
	Address
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	4) Contact Person
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	Title:
	Telephone Number:
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	E-mail Address:
	5) Reporting Period
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	6) Total Expenditures
Report actual budget expenditures for the above performance reporting period. Provide the District’s indirect cost rate	Federal $			Non-Federal $ (if applicable)
	Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate: _____%

Authorized Representative:

To the best of my knowledge and belief, all data in this performance report are true and correct.

Name (typed or printed):	Title:
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improving literacy through school libraries program
Final grant report

Part I. Please provide the following information:

1. Cover Sheet – see attached. Complete the cover sheet according to the instructions provided.

• ED Form 524-B

2. Executive Summary

• Provide a one- to two-page Executive Summary describing the project and highlighting key accomplishments.

3. Project Performance

• Report on how you met each one of your project objectives, i.e., areas proposed in Use of Funds section and/or other applicable sections of your original application.

4. Project Evaluation

• Provide a copy of your program evaluation report.

Part II. Please answer the following questions:

SCHOOLS SERVED AND EXTENDED HOURS

1. On what basis were schools selected for participation in the Improving Literacy through School Libraries Program? (Circle one response on each line.)

If your district has only one school, please check this box and skip to Question 2.

Yes No

a. All schools in the district were selected 1 2

b. All schools serving a particular grade level were served
(please specify level) 1 2

c. The neediest schools based on poverty level 1 2

d. The neediest schools based on lack of library resources 1 2

e. The neediest schools based on those identified for improvement under No Child Left Behind 1 2

f. Other (please specify) 1 2

2. Who participated in the decision regarding which schools to serve? (Circle one response on each line.)

Yes No

a. District school library coordinator 1 2

b. District reading curriculum coordinator 1 2

c. Superintendent(s) 1 2

d. Principal(s) 1 2

e. School library media specialist(s) 1 2

f. Reading specialist(s) 1 2

g. Classroom teacher(s) 1 2

h. Parent(s) 1 2

i. Other (please specify) 1 2

3. How many schools were served under the grant? ______ Schools

4. In the table below, please list each school served under the grant in column 1. The grade levels served under the grant in each school should be entered in column 2; and the number of students served under the grant in each school should be entered in column 3. (While most schools planned to serve all students under the grant, some schools planned to target only certain grades. When only certain grades participated in the grant, only those grades and the total number of students in the targeted grades should be entered in the table.) In column 4, please enter the total number of hours per week that the library in each school was open during nonschool hours (i.e., extended hours) during the school year of the grant. Please include the hours that the school was open before and after school and on weekends. If the library was not open during nonschool hours, please enter 0. In column 5, please enter the total number of hours per week that the library was open during nonschool hours during the school year prior to the grant.

NOTE: Please make as many copies of this page as needed to cover all schools served under the grant.

School served (1)	Grades served (2)	Number of students served (3)	Total number of extended hours per week
			Year of the grant (4)	Year prior to the grant (5)

5. If extended hours were not provided, please check this box and skip to question 7.

During the grant year, how many schools extended hours at each of the following times?

Number of schools

extending hours

a. Before school

b. After school

c. Saturday

d. Sunday

e. Summer

6. During the grant year, how many schools staffed the library with the following kinds of personnel during extended hours?

Number of schools

a. School library media specialists

b. Library aides

c. Classroom teachers

d. Volunteers

5. Other (please specify)

SCHOOL LIBRARY PURCHASES

7. In the table below, please list each school and its CCD# served under the grant in column 1. For each school served, please enter the total number of books purchased during the grant year in column 2, and the total number of books purchased during the school year prior to the grant in column 3. For each school, please provide the number of titles of other media resources (e.g., tapes, DVDs, laser discs, and CD-ROMs) purchased during the grant year in column 4, and the number of titles of other media resources purchased during the year prior to the grant in column 5. For each school, please provide the number of computers purchased for the library during the grant year in column 6 and the number of computers purchased during the year prior to the grant in column 7.

NOTE: Please make as many copies of this page as needed to cover all schools served under the grant.

School served/ CommonCoreDataNumber(1) http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch	Number of books purchased		Number of titles of other media resources purchased		Number of computers purchased for the library
	Year of the grant (2)	Year prior to the grant (3)	Year of the grant (4)	Year prior to the grant (5)	Year of the grant (6)	Year prior to the grant (7)

8. Which of the following areas, if any, did your district target for buying additional books with grant funds?

Yes No

a. Fiction 1 2

b. Updating of science collection 1 2

c. Updating collection on history and/or biography 1 2

d. Filling holes in particular areas (please specify) 1 2

e. General upgrading of entire collection 1 2

f. Decisions on book purchases were made by schools, not the district 1 2

g. Other areas targeted by the district (please specify) 1 2

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

9. Was any professional development provided by the district under the grant?

Yes 1

No 2 SKIP TO QUESTION 12

10. How many of the following types of staff received professional development by the district under the grant?

Number of staff

a. District school library coordinator

b. District reading curriculum coordinator

c. Principal(s)

d. School library media specialist(s)

e. Reading specialist(s)

f. Classroom teacher(s)

g. Paraprofessionals/instructional assistant(s)

h. Other (please specify)

11. How many times per year were the following topics covered in the professional development activities? (Circle one response on each line.)

	Times per year
	7 or more	3-6	1-2	Not covered

a. How to select books and materials that align with the curriculum 1 2 3 4

b. How to integrate educational technology into the curriculum 1 2 3 4

c. Methods in which teachers and school library media specialists can collaborate 1 2 3 4

d. Teaching children to read 1 2 3 4

e. Other (please specify) 1 2 3 4

f. Other (please specify) 1 2 3 4

g. Other (please specify) 1 2 3 4

EXPENDITURES

12. How much of your grant money was ultimately spent in each of the following categories:

a. Acquisition of advanced technology $

b. Acquisition of all other resources, including books $

c. Linkage to the Internet and other resource-sharing networks $

d. Professional development $

e. Operating the school library media center during nonschool hours $

f. Other (please explain) $

13. Who participated in the decision regarding how the money should be spent? (Circle one response on each line.)

Yes No

a. District school library coordinator 1 2

b. District reading curriculum coordinator 1 2

c. Superintendent(s) 1 2

d. Principal(s) 1 2

e. School library media specialist(s) 1 2

f. Reading specialist(s) 1 2

g. Classroom teacher(s) 1 2

h. Parent(s) 1 2

i. Other (please specify) 1 2

14. On what basis was the grant money distributed to the schools in your district? (Circle one response.)

Each participating school received the same amount 1

Each participating school received an amount based on the
number of students in the school 2

All purchasing was done at the district level 3

Other (please specify) 4

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