What is the difference between a high quality and poorly written application?
In short: Concrete examples, evidence and data. This is critical. You must provide hard data for every general claim you make. For example: Claim: Parents and community and the students are consistently informed about Sunshine School’s and their child’s/children’s progress. Evidence: Staff communicates with parents through scheduled parent teacher conferences using individual student data (sample reporting form or sample student portfolio). Teachers schedule individual conferences with parents as needed throughout the year. These conferences take place by phone, in person or can be a written report (sample record of additional conferencing). Individual contracts are made with students and parents on issues of improvement (sample contract). Individual progress on meeting the state’s content expectations for reading are monitored and communicated to both students and parents (sample record of progress). Also used to inform parents and community about the school’s progress are the monthly
