Laura Bush Foundation Grant Application PART I: CONTACT INFORMATION & AGREEMENTS

The first thing we need is to know how to contact you at your school. This allows us to get in touch with you to confirm receipt of your proposal, to send an inquiry should there be a question about your application, to pass along any important announcements, or to send you additional information or material if the need should arise. Please tell us: 1. The school's name: * Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School 2. The name of the school district or governing organization: * Clarke County School District 3. The school's mailing address: Line 1 * 1150 Oglethorpe Avenue Line 2 City * Athens State *GA Zip Code 30606 4. The school's telephone and fax numbers (please use 10 digits, no spaces or hyphens): Phone: * 7065490762 Fax number 5. The school's email address. This will be used for notification if you are funded. Be sure to double-check that it is correctly entered: *sugiuchid@clarke.k12.ga.us 6. The principal's name: Last Name * Dunne First Name * Scarlett 7. The name of the person filling out this application: Last Name: * Sugiuchi First Name: * Deirdre 8. The title of person filling out this application: School Librarian 9. The telephone number of the person filling out this application (please use 10 digits, no spaces or hyphens): 7065490762 10. The email address of the person filling out this application. We will send an email to this address to confirm receipt of the application: * sugiuchid@clarke.k12.ga.us 11. Is the person filling out this application also the person responsible for the library operation in the school? * Yes

Please note: Preference will be given to applications that are prepared by the person in your school specifically responsible for the library. We believe that the person on-site has the best understanding of the library's status, needs, and potential. 12. What percentage of your student body is eligible for free and reduced lunch (FRL)? 90-95% Secondary schools may submit verifiable FRL data averaged from all feeder schools.

13. Please provide NCES Information: A. What is your schools NCES ID? 130117000454 Please see:http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/ if you need to find it. B. If this is a secondary school using data from feeder schools, please list all schools that feed into your high school, providing name and NCES IDs:

14. Which of the following best describes the school? If none of these descriptors fit, please write a short description (25 words or less) under Other. * Preschool and/or Kindergarten Primary School Primary/Elementary School Elementary School** Middle School / Jr. High School High School Pre K or Kindergarten through Grade 8 School Grades 7 through 12 School Pre K or Kindergarten through Grade 12 School Other 15. Which of the following best describes the school? Public ** Public alternative Public charter Private 16. How did you learn about the opportunity to apply to the Laura Bush Foundation for a grant award? Check all that apply. Professional journal LBF website

LBF brochure Vendor/Commercial Publisher At a conference or convention Online discussion group Building or district administrator Other If not from LBF website/brochure, please specify: Colleague 17. How much money (up to $5,000) are you requesting from the Laura Bush Foundation to fund your proposal? Please use whole numbers only; no commas, decimals, or fractions: * $ 5000 18. If your school is selected as a recipient of a Laura Bush Foundation grant, do you agree to participate in the Foundations evaluation program? Yes 19. If your school is selected as a recipient of a Laura Bush Foundation grant, do you agree to participate in publicity to promote the goals of the Foundation and for information from this application to be used? Yes

"My lifelong passion for books and reading began when I was a little girl. This new Foundation provides yet another opportunity to share with America's children the magical world of books and reading." -- Laura Bush

PART II: THE HEART OF THE PROPOSAL

This is the most important part of the application. We would like to have the most compelling explanation of your students needs and the clearest description of your proposal that you can provide. Please answer every part of every question. We cannot appropriately evaluate incomplete applications. Important: Please read the Frequently Asked Questions and the Scoring Rubric sections before answering the questions below.

Please also remember that funds are available only for library books and magazine/serial copies and subscriptions. The Laura Bush Foundation is unable to honor requests for staffing, shelving, furniture, equipment, e-readers, software, videos, classroom book sets or any kind of book guides, tests or exams. With all that in mind, please tell us: 22. How many students are there in the school this year? 590 (numbers only, no commas) 23. How many books are there in the library collection? 17000 (numbers only, no commas) 24. How many books per student does that work out to? 28.81 (numbers only, no commas) 25. What is the distance to the nearest public library? Please choose one from the pull-down menu of distances: 1-5 miles 26. Does your school have a certified school librarian? Yes If your school does have a certified librarian, please skip ahead to Question Number 27. If your school does not have a certified librarian, please describe the person who currently has primary responsibility for the library and its operation. (A) Position Description: Volunteer Certified teacher Administrator Certified specialist in some area other than library media Aide or para-professional (B) Is this person full-time or part-time in the library? Full-time in the library Part-time in the library (C) What is this person's education and experience? No degree Bachelors degree Masters degree or higher Library Media Training Has no library media training Has some library media training

Is a qualified library technician Is currently in a library media certification program Has temporary library media certification Is taking on-line training Experience in the library job: First year responsible for the library 1-3 years experience responsible for the library 4 or more years experience responsible for the library Other Duties: Does the person primarily responsible for the library have a second responsibility in the school (e.g., classroom teacher, counselor, administrator, secretary, and clerk)? Yes No If yes, please tell us what that responsibility is in 25 words or less: 27. Does the person responsible for the library (certificated librarian or not) have support staff such as aides, para-professionals, parent/community volunteers, or other help? Yes If yes, please describe that help in 25 words or less:
We have parent volunteers who occasionally come in to help with fundraising, processing, shelving, and checking out books.

28. Please provide the following information concerning the budget for library books for this year. Please use numbers only. Please no commas. (Refer to the FAQ for items that are considered part of the budget for library books). (A) Total library book budget provided by the governing body for the 2012-2013 school year (this would include any monies allocated directly from the district as well as moneys allocated through the principals budget for the building). $ 6000 In answering this question, please remember that a book is a print or Braille bound volume or an audio-book on an audio-tape, CD-ROM, or other digital format. For this definition, books are part of either the reference section or the circulating section of the schools central library collection. (B) Total library magazine/serial budget provided by the governing body for the 2012-2013 school year (this would include any monies allocated directly from the district as well as moneys allocated through the principals budget for the building). $ 1000

(C) Total money from other sources used for books or magazines, such as grants, monies from parent organizations, an educational foundation, book fairs, other fund-raising activities, etc. $
2500

(D) What does all of this work out to on a per-pupil basis for the year? $/pupil: 16.1 29. Will the person filling out this application be the person responsible for carrying out the activities described in the grant proposal plan below? Yes If no, who will be responsible? Please list the name, title, and experience of each person who will have responsibility for implementing the proposal: Last name First name Title: 30. Every school is unique. What distinguishes this school? Please particularly address any condition in the school or community or anything else that demonstrates a unique and compelling book need among the students in this school. Please tell us the schools story. Tell us the students story.
Our Title One school is in Athens, Ga in which 30% of the population is below the poverty line. A large part of our population is comprised of English Language Learners, Special Education students, and students who receive free or reduced lunch. Last year, our standardized test scores in science across the board, for students in all grades and subgroups, were extremely low. After reviewing our collection, we determined that some of our science materials are outdated but also do not cover all of the science standards covered throughout the year. We also have a need for different leveled texts due to the varied reading levels in our school as well as the fact that many science topics are taught at different grade levels. It is important to have content specific texts low enough to reach all of our readers, but it is just as essential to have higher level texts for our advanced readers and for teachers to utilize during instruction.

This answer is limited to 500 words. 31. The goals of the Laura Bush Foundation are to:(A) encourage and foster a love of reading,(B) support student learning, and(C) make books available to students who otherwise would not have access to them. Which goal or combination of goals does your proposal address?
In order to collaborate with classroom teachers and support their instruction and the learning objectives of the school, a library must be able to provide materials that are in alignment with those goals. Our goal is to give the teachers and students support towards reaching their

instructional goals by adding nonfiction texts that address relevant science topics and standards essential to their instruction.

This summary is limited to 100 words. 32. If you were to receive a grant of up to $5,000, how would you use it? In other words, what is your proposal? What is it that you want to do? Who and what would it benefit? Why? (In describing your proposal, please be sure of two things: (1) That you do not request anything other than books or magazines, and (2) that if your plan includes purchasing eBooks or any other electronic materials, be sure to tell us in what ways and how easily your students will be able to access them.)
My primary goal for this grant would be to purchase nonfiction books at varied levels for my collection so that the coverage of most, if not all, of the science standards for grades Kindergarten through fifth are addressed. I want to increase the coverage of science topic at appropriate level in my collection so that both teachers and students alike can benefit. The teachers would benefit by having access to a wide range of books on science topics that they can use for instructional purposes. The students would be benefit by having access to science books on their level in topics related to the instruction they are receiving in the classroom, whether they are accessing these books in their classroom, on their own, or for an assignment.

(In describing your proposal, please be sure of two things: (1) That you do not request anything other than books or magazines, and (2) that if your plan includes purchasing eBooks or any other electronic materials, be sure to tell us in what ways and how easily your students will be able to access them.) This answer is limited to 500 words. 33. What gave you the idea for this proposal? *
This year our school hired an academic enrichment teacher that all students in second through fifth grade see throughout the week. She addresses science topics that either don't receive enough time in the regular classroom, students are having difficulty with, or takes the topic above and beyond the standard required. They hired this teacher due to the standardized test score results in science and I knew that my library could be a part of this goal. That is why I want our collection to have the most coverage of science topics as possible.

This answer is limited to 100 words. 34. How were the specifics of the proposal developed? *
I determined the types of books needed in our collection by reviewing the science standards for kindergarten through fifth grade, talking with the teachers about their needs and experience with science instruction and scores in the past, and conducting an analysis of the books we did have in our collection that would address those specific standards.

This answer is limited to 200 words. 35. If you do receive a grant to implement your proposal, how will you measure and evaluate its impact on the students, on the library, on the school? * Since the standardized test scores in science were what brought our attention to our students' deficit in science, looking at these scores over the next couple of years would be a good indicator of whether the addition of these new science materials helped to support instruction. Another way I would determine the effectiveness of the addition would be by interviewing the teachers regarding their use of the materials in their instruction. Looking up and analyzing circulation records of the materials would also prove helpful in determining if they were being used to supplement instruction. This answer is limited to 250 words. 36. What is your schools Federal Employer Tax Identification Number? * (number only)

PART III: Principals Certification of the Application

Since the principal bears ultimate responsibility for a given schools programs and operations, we need to know that the principal approves this application and certifies the accuracy of the information submitted. Please ask the principal to electronically signal this approval by inserting his or her name and the date approval is granted below. Thank you.
37. I, Principal's name , hereby certify the accuracy of the information provided in this application and fully support its submission. I support this application to the Laura Bush Foundation and the project described therein. Further, I certify that funds granted by the Laura Bush Foundation will not be used to supplant money normally budgeted for the library program. I understand that these funds are to be used for supplemental funding only and may only be spent for books or magazines. I also agree to have the information we have submitted be included as part of aggregated, anonymous data used for research purposes.

If our school is funded, I agree to participate in publicity to promote the goals of the Foundation and to submit an evaluation of the use of the funds a year after funds are received.

PART VI: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please remember that only this on-line application is official. We cannot accept any faxed, emailed, or printed applications. Once you submit this application, it cannot be changed or retrieved. If additional applications are received from your school, only the first will be considered. Please look over your application one more time before submitting. Please double-check that you are not requesting funds for anything except books -- that is, for hardbound print or Braille volumes, for audio-books on audio-tape or CD-ROM, for e-books to be added to either the circulating or reference section of the school's central library collection -- or for magazine/serial copies or subscriptions. Please also double-check that you have answered every part of every question. We are trying to build a profile of your school and its book needs. Unanswered items leave questions and reduce your chances of receiving funds. We also recommend that you save your content information into your own Word file before submission. Thank you for your interest in the Laura Bush Foundation. Best wishes for continued success in the important work you do.