Overview

BJA’s STOP School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence.

The STOP School Violence Act describes the following categories for school safety projects:

• Train school personnel and educate students on preventing student violence against others and themselves to include anti-bullying training. This can also include specialized training for school officials to respond to mental health crises.
• Develop and implement threat assessment and/or intervention teams and/or operate technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, and websites. Threat assessment and/or intervention teams must coordinate with law enforcement agencies and school personnel.

Aligned Solutions

SafeSchools Staff Training & Exceptional Child Online Professional Development - Educate staff on essential safety topics.

• Courses cover the critical topics to educate staff so they’re better prepared to prevent a safety incident, or to respond should one occur.
• Supports Compliance – courses help comply with state and federal training mandates, including OSHA, Title IX, Mandatory Reporting, FERPA, Working Safely with Students with Disabilities, Bullying Prevention, and more.
• Scenario Based – School-based scenarios make the training relevant and applicable. Key courses include: Bloodborne Pathogens, Sexual Harassment, School Violence, Student Mental, Health, Youth Suicide, and more.
• Built-In Assessments – Every course includes an assessment to measure retention and mastery. Administrators can also activate “test-out” and “pre-test/post-test” options on a course-by-course basis.

SafeSchools Student Training - Equip students with the safety knowledge they need.

• Powerful, engaging courses cover the essential safety topics to educate students to positively impact school culture, and are perfect for primary prevention training or remediation.
• Engaging and Age-Appropriate – Courses feature diverse peer presenters, so all students can more easily connect with each lesson. Customized courses for grades 6-8 and grades 9-12.
• Modular Course Design – Each course includes a full version, as well as standalone modules (5-10 minutes), so the content can be used in the way that best meets student needs.
• Variety of Uses – Assign to individual students, use in a facilitated group setting, or add our courses to your existing LMS.
• Helpful Ancillary Materials – Lesson plans, discussion questions, activities, and assessments.

SafeSchools Alert Tip Reporting System

• SafeSchools Alert is an anonymous tip reporting system designed to help school leaders receive information about potential school safety threats, bullying, or concerns related to student wellbeing.
• Tip lines provide students, who are often reluctant to report information, with an opportunity to submit information anonymously to their school leaders.

Overview

The purpose of the COPS School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) is to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the recipient’s jurisdiction through evidence-based school safety programs. Funding is available under the following purpose areas:

• Coordination with local law enforcement
• Training for local law enforcement officers to prevent student violence against others and self
• Placement and use of metal detectors, locks, lighting, and other deterrent measures
• Acquisition and installation of technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency
• Any other measure that, in the determination of the COPS Office Director, may provide a significant improvement in security

Aligned Solutions

SafeSchools Staff Training & Exceptional Child Online Professional Development - Educate staff on essential safety topics.

• Courses cover the critical topics to educate staff so they’re better prepared to prevent a safety incident, or to respond should one occur.
• Supports Compliance – courses help comply with state and federal training mandates, including OSHA, Title IX, Mandatory Reporting, FERPA, Working Safely with Students with Disabilities, Bullying Prevention, and more.
• Scenario Based – School-based scenarios make the training relevant and applicable. Key courses include: Bloodborne Pathogens, Sexual Harassment, School Violence, Student Mental, Health, Youth Suicide, and more.
• Built-In Assessments – Every course includes an assessment to measure retention and mastery. Administrators can also activate “test-out” and “pre-test/post-test” options on a course-by-course basis.

SafeSchools Student Training - Equip students with the safety knowledge they need.

• Powerful, engaging courses cover the essential safety topics to educate students to positively impact school culture, and are perfect for primary prevention training or remediation.
• Engaging and Age-Appropriate – Courses feature diverse peer presenters, so all students can more easily connect with each lesson. Customized courses for grades 6-8 and grades 9-12.
• Modular Course Design – Each course includes a full version, as well as standalone modules (5-10 minutes), so the content can be used in the way that best meets student needs.
• Variety of Uses – Assign to individual students, use in a facilitated group setting, or add our courses to your existing LMS.
• Helpful Ancillary Materials – Lesson plans, discussion questions, activities, and assessments.

SafeSchools Alert Tip Reporting System

• SafeSchools Alert is an anonymous tip reporting system designed to help school leaders receive information about potential school safety threats, bullying, or concerns related to student wellbeing.
• Tip lines provide students, who are often reluctant to report information, with an opportunity to submit information anonymously to their school leaders.

Overview

The Personnel Preparation program helps meet state-identified needs for adequate numbers of fully certified personnel to serve children with disabilities by supporting competitive awards to:

• Provide research-based training and professional development to prepare special education, related services, early intervention, and regular education personnel to work with children with disabilities
• Ensure that those personnel are fully qualified, and possess the skills and knowledge that are needed to serve children with disabilities
• Ensure that those personnel are fully qualified, and possess the skills and knowledge that are needed to serve children with disabilities

This program supports training activities in a few high priority areas, including:

• General personnel development and preparing beginning special educators
• Personnel serving children with low incidence disabilities
• Leadership personnel

Aligned Solutions

The following information includes all acceptable uses for these funds to provide a complete picture, while the items in bold are those that represent close matches to SafeSchools solutions.

• High-quality interdisciplinary projects that prepare special education, early intervention, and related services personnel at the master's degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree levels for professional practice in natural environments, early learning programs, classrooms, and school settings serving children, including infants and toddlers, and youth with disabilities.
• Builds capacity (e.g., hiring of a field supervisor, providing professional development for field supervisors, and training for faculty);
• Purchasing needed resources (e.g., additional teaching supplies or specialized equipment to enhance instruction)

SafeSchools Staff Training

• SafeSchools Training is a professional development resource that delivers online training, including hundreds of school focused courses by expert-authors, to every staff member.
• Key courses include:
  • Emergency Management
  • Employment Practices
  • Environmental
  • Health
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Nutrition Services
  • Security
  • Social & Behavioral
  • Special Education
  • Transportation

Exceptional Child Online Professional Development

• Exceptional Child is an online professional development system for all educators who support students with exceptionalities.
• Exceptional Child delivers evidence-based, Special Education-related training on ADHD, Autism, Behavior, IEP’s, Transition, Special Education Law, and more.
• Every course in Exceptional Child is multimedia-rich and written by one of the nation’s leading special education experts.

Overview

The purpose of the Perkins Innovation and Modernization Grant Program to identify, support, and rigorously evaluate Evidence-Based and innovative strategies and activities to improve and modernize Career and Technical Education (CTE) and ensure workforce skills taught in CTE programs funded under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, as amended by the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V or the Act) align with labor market needs.

Funds under this grant can be used for a variety of activities, including designing and implementing courses or Programs of Study aligned to labor market needs in new or emerging fields, working with industry to upgrade equipment, technology, and related curriculum used in CTE programs, improving the transition of students, and creating or expanding recruitment, retention, or professional development activities for CTE teachers, faculty, school leaders, administrators, specialized instructional support personnel, career guidance and academic counselors, and paraprofessionals.

Aligned Solutions

The following information includes all acceptable uses for these funds to provide a complete picture, while the items in bold are those that represent close matches to SafeSchools Solutions.

Funding can include:

• Creating or expanding recruitment, retention, or professional development activities for CTE teachers, faculty, school leaders, administrators, Paraprofessional, also known as a “paraeducator,” includes a professional
• Providing educators (including teachers, principals, other school leaders, administrators, Specialized Instructional Support Personnel, career guidance and academic counselors, and Paraprofessionals) with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable students to succeed in Career and Technical Education, to meet challenging State academic standards or to achieve academic skills at the postsecondary level
• Training should be sustained (not stand-alone, 1-day, or short-term workshops), intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, data-driven, and classroom-focused, to the extent practicable
• Evidence-Based, and may include activities that improve and increase educators'
  • Knowledge of the academic and technical subjects;
  • Understanding of how students learn; and
  • Ability to analyze student work and achievement from multiple sources, including how to adjust instructional strategies, assessments, and materials based on such analysis; education assistant and instructional assistant.
• Address the rights of a student or the obligations of an entity under IDEA

SafeSchools Staff Training

• SafeSchools Training is a professional development resource that delivers online training, including hundreds of school focused courses by expert-authors, to every staff member.
• Key courses include:
  • Emergency Management
  • Employment Practices
  • Environmental
  • Health
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Nutrition Services
  • Security
  • Social & Behavioral
  • Special Education
  • Transportation

Exceptional Child Online Professional Development

• Exceptional Child is an online professional development system for all educators who support students with exceptionalities.
• Exceptional Child delivers evidence-based, Special Education-related training on ADHD, Autism, Behavior, IEP’s, Transition, Special Education Law, and more.
• Every course in Exceptional Child is multimedia-rich and written by one of the nation’s leading special education experts.

Overview

The purpose of the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) is to improve student achievement; improve the quality of prospective and new teachers by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities for new teachers; hold teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) accountable for preparing teachers who meet applicable State certification and licensure requirements; and recruit highly qualified individuals, including minorities and individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.

The program supports eligible partnerships that must include a high-need local educational agency (LEA), a high-need school served by the LEA, or a high-need early childhood education (ECE) program; a partner institution; a school, department, or program of education within such partner institution; and a school or department of arts and sciences within such partner institution. Partnerships must implement either (a) teacher preparation programs at the pre-baccalaureate or “fifth-year” level that include specific reforms in IHEs' existing teacher preparation programs; or (b) teacher residency programs for individuals who are recent graduates with strong academic backgrounds or are mid-career professionals from outside the field of education.

Aligned Solutions

The following information includes all acceptable uses for these funds to provide a complete picture, while the items in bold are those that represent close matches to SafeSchools Solutions. 

Funding for:

• Partnerships among institutions of higher education, high-need local education agencies, high-need schools, or other eligible entities that work together to develop a pipeline of profession ready teachers.
• Providing extensive, year-long clinical preparation to teacher candidates.
• Providing an induction program for at least the first two years of a graduate’s teaching career.
• Candidates participating in teaching residency programs commit to teaching for at least three years in a high need field in the high-need district where they were prepared.
• Addressing candidates that are prepared to teach students with disabilities, to teach English language learners, and to teach literacy strategies.

SafeSchools Staff Training

• SafeSchools Training is a professional development resource that delivers online training, including hundreds of school focused courses by expert-authors, to every staff member.
• Key courses include:
  • Emergency Management
  • Employment Practices
  • Environmental
  • Health
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Nutrition Services
  • Security
  • Social & Behavioral
  • Special Education
  • Transportation

Exceptional Child Online Professional Development

• Exceptional Child is an online professional development system for all educators who support students with exceptionalities.
• Exceptional Child delivers evidence-based, Special Education-related training on ADHD, Autism, Behavior, IEP’s, Transition, Special Education Law, and more.
• Every course in Exceptional Child is multimedia-rich and written by one of the nation’s leading special education experts.

Overview

The SEED grant program provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of evidence-based preparation, development, or enhancement opportunities for educators.

Supporting Effective Teachers.

Projects that will implement activities that are supported by:

1. Providing teachers from nontraditional preparation and certification routes or pathways to serve in traditionally under-served Local Educational Agencies (LEAs);
2. Providing teachers with Evidence-Based Professional Development activities that address literacy, numeracy, remedial, or other needs of LEAs and the students the agencies serve; or
3. Providing teachers with Evidence-Based professional enhancement activities, which may include activities that lead to an advanced credential.

Supporting Effective Principals or Other School Leaders.

Projects that will implement activities:

1. Providing principals or other School Leaders from nontraditional preparation and certification routes or pathways to serve in traditionally under-served LEAs;
2. Providing principals or other School Leaders with Evidence-Based Professional Development activities that address literacy, numeracy, remedial, or other needs of LEAs and the students the agencies serve; or
3. Providing principals or other School Leaders with Evidence-Based professional enhancement activities, which may include activities that lead to an advanced credential.

Aligned Solutions

• SafeSchools Staff Training
• Exceptional Child Online Professional Development

Note: The following information includes all acceptable uses for these funds to provide a complete picture, while the items in bold are those that represent close matches to SafeSchools solutions.

Professional Development activities that—

(a) Are an integral part of school and LEA strategies for providing educators (including teachers, principals, other School Leaders, specialized instructional support personnel, paraprofessionals, and, as applicable, early childhood educators) with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable students to succeed in a well-rounded education and to meet the challenging State academic standards; and

(b) Are sustained (not stand-alone, 1-day, or short term workshops), intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, data-driven, and classroom-focused, and may include activities that—

(1) Improve and increase teachers'—

(i) Knowledge of the academic subjects the teachers teach;

(ii) Understanding of how students learn; and

(iii) Ability to analyze student work and achievement from multiple sources, including how to adjust instructional strategies, assessments, and materials based on such analysis;

(2) Are an integral part of broad schoolwide and districtwide educational improvement plans;

(3) Allow personalized plans for each educator to address the educator's specific needs identified in observation or other feedback;

(4) Improve classroom management skills;

(5) Support the recruitment, hiring, and training of effective teachers, including teachers who became certified through State and local alternative routes to certification;

(6) Advance teacher understanding of—

(i) Effective instructional strategies that are Evidence-Based; and

(ii) Strategies for improving student academic achievement or substantially increasing the knowledge and teaching skills of teachers;

(7) Are aligned with, and directly related to, academic goals of the school or LEA;

(8) Are developed with extensive participation of teachers, principals, other School Leaders, parents, representatives of Indian Tribes (as applicable), and administrators of schools to be served under the ESEA;

(9) Are designed to give teachers of English learners, and other teachers and instructional staff, the knowledge and skills to provide instruction and appropriate language and academic support services to those children, including the appropriate use of curricula and assessments;

(10) To the extent appropriate, provide training for teachers, principals, and other School Leaders in the use of technology (including education about the harms of copyright piracy), so that technology and technology applications are effectively used in the classroom to improve teaching and learning in the curricula and academic subjects in which the teachers teach;

(11) As a whole, are regularly evaluated for their impact on increased teacher effectiveness and improved student academic achievement, with the findings of the evaluations used to improve the quality of professional development;

(12) Are designed to give teachers of children with disabilities or children with developmental delays, and other teachers and instructional staff, the knowledge and skills to provide instruction and academic support services, to those children, including positive behavioral interventions and supports, multi-tier system of supports, and use of accommodations;

(13) Include instruction in the use of data and assessments to inform and instruct classroom practice;

(14) Include instruction in ways that teachers, principals, other School Leaders, specialized instructional support personnel, and school administrators may work more effectively with parents and families;

(15) Involve the forming of partnerships with IHEs, including, as applicable, Tribal Colleges and Universities, to establish school-based teacher, principal, and other School Leader training programs that provide prospective teachers, novice teachers, principals, and other School Leaders with an opportunity to work under the guidance of experienced teachers, principals, other School Leaders, and faculty of such institutions;

(16) Create programs to enable paraprofessionals (assisting teachers employed by an LEA receiving assistance under part A of title I of the ESEA) to obtain the education necessary for those paraprofessionals to become certified and licensed teachers;

(17) Provide follow-up training to teachers who have participated in activities described in paragraph (b) of this definition that are designed to ensure that the knowledge and skills learned by the teachers are implemented in the classroom; and

(18) Where practicable, provide jointly for school staff and other early childhood education program providers, to address the transition to elementary school, including issues related to school readiness.