Title I

Our School District has an 80% percent Free and reduced lunch count with several students with disabilities. The District will assess all the students in ELA and Math through Galileo and informative assessments in the classroom in order to determine learning loss and then rank the students and put them into Tiers. Tier I students will be taught through the general curriculum. ELA will be Ready Gen and Achieve 3000 along with the standards based supplemental instruction through Beyond Textbooks. Tier II students for ELA will be given supplemental curriculum IXL and Achieve 3000.

Paideia Academies will utilize the federal funds to support the needs of all our students impacted by the COVID Pandemic, including students who have been determined with high needs, students from low-income families, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness, children in foster care, and migratory students. The school will hire additional paraprofessionals who will work with impacted students to close the learning gaps, and an additional school counselor to provide social and emotional support to students.

The Charter Foundation recognizes that education includes addressing the whole student, and not just the academics. To this end, we are taking a wholistic approach within the school setting. The presence of a counselor will allow for group activities, such as team building and the development of social skills within peer groups. Access to a counselor also give students a resource to help with adjustments as they return to school with more intensive focus on academics and peer relations.

MAA is dedicated to providing a superior academic environment. Students will be thoroughly assessed at the beginning of the school year and at regular intervals to ensure that they are making the academic milestones necessary for lifelong success. Students are placed in interventions when needed. Students are progressed monitored regularly using evidenced based assessments. Assessment results are analyzed to determine growth. Our Counselor assesses and prioritizes student's needs.

We are using our set aside funding for summer school for 3 years and adding an SEL component to help with the mental and emotional effect this pandemic has had on our most vulnerable populations. As shown in the Covid related data published recently our English Learners, Special Education students and Title 1 students need intentional interventions to ensure loss of learning is addressed minimially in ELA and math over the next three years. We are focusing on summer school and providing those interventions for our students.

Sunnyside Unified School District will continue to utilize formative assessment in addition to other student data to target interventions for students. Funds will be used to provide additional Professional Development to staff through the use of recorded lessons to model exceptional instructional practice.

SLA service are mostly Hispanic, low-income, special needs, English learners, homeless and foster care students. These are our targeted population.

The Navajo Nation required all Navajo schools to engage in distance learning thus limiting the person to person interaction. However, toward the end of the school year, the COVID-19 cases were decreasing across the Navajo Nation and parents were more inclined to send their student into the building because they know their students did not perform well during throughout the school year. So, a summer school credit recovery program was initiated in the areas of English Language Art and Mathematics.

The intervention teachers will utilize the data from NWEA to guide their instruction to ensure academic loss is effectively addressed for all students with a focus on students in vulnerable populations. Interventionist will utilize McGraw Hill reading and math interventions and NWEA MAP Accelerator. The interventions will be focused on students in vulnerable populations, including but not limited to SPED Students, EL students, and minorities.

Addressing learning loss is paramount to moving forward. More than 20% of the ESSER III related budget can address learning loss. More specifically is the addition of instructional aides and quality tutoring for students. We have hired an SEL counselor to respond to the needs of all students PreK-12, including students from low-income families, students of color, English learners, children with disabilities, students experiencing homelessness and children in foster care. Capturing Kids' Hearts professional development package from the Flippen Group.