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• Focuses on teachers as central to student

learning, yet includes all other members of

the school community;

• Focuses on individual, collegial, and

organizational improvement;

• Respects and nurtures the intellectual

and leadership capacity of teachers,

principals, and others in the school

community;

• Reflects best available research and

practice in teaching, learning, and

leadership;

• Enables teachers to develop further

expertise in subject content, teaching

strategies, uses of technologies, and other

essential elements in teaching to high

standards;

• Promotes continuous inquiry and

improvement embedded in the daily life of

schools;

• Is planned collaboratively by those who

will participate in and facilitate that

development;

• Requires substantial time and other

resources;

• Is driven by a coherent long-term plan;

• Is evaluated ultimately on the basis of its

impact on teacher effectiveness and student

learning; and this assessment guides

subsequent professional development efforts.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Awards Program for Model

Professional Development; Notice

Inviting Applications for New Awards

for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998

Purpose of the Program: To recognize

a variety of schools and school districts

with model professional development

activities in the pre-kindergarten

through twelfth grade levels that have

led to increases in student achievement.

The FY 1998 competition focuses on

schools and school districts that meet

the eligibility and selection criteria for

this program, as published elsewhere in

this issue of the Federal Register.

Eligible Applicants: Schools (public

and private) and school districts in the

States (including schools located on

Indian reservations, and in the District

of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the

outlying areas).

Deadline for the Transmittal of

Applications: January 15, 1998.

Applications Available: November 3,

1997.

Estimated Range of Awards: Not less

than $5,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 10.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria: The

eligibility and selection criteria and

selection procedures in the notice of

final eligibility and selection criteria for

this program, as published elsewhere in

this issue of the Federal Register, apply

to this competition.

For Application Information Contact:

To obtain a copy of the application or

to obtain information on the program,

call or write Sharon Horn, Office of

Educational Research and Improvement,

U.S. Department of Education, 555 New

Jersey Avenue, NW—Room 506e,

Washington, DC 20208–5644.

Telephone: 202–219–2203 or 202–219–

2187. Inquiries also may be sent by email to sharonlhorn@ed.gov or by FAX

at 202–219–2198. Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternate

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact person listed in

the preceding paragraph.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternate format, also, by

contacting that person. However, the

Department is not able to reproduce in

an alternate format the standard forms

included in the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document:

Anyone may view this document, as

well as all other Department of

Education documents published in the

Federal Register, in text or portable

document format (pdf) on the World

Wide Web at either of the following

sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm

http://www.ed.gov/news.html

To use the pdf you must have the Adobe

Acrobat Reader Program with Search,

which is available free at either of the

previous sites. If you have questions

about using the pdf, call the U.S.

Government Printing Office toll free at

1–888–293–6498.

Anyone may also view these

documents in text copy only on an

electronic bulletin board of the

Department. Telephone: (202) 219–1511

or, toll free, 1–800–222–4922. The

documents are located under Option

G—Files/Announcements, Bulletins and

Press Releases.

Dated: October 24, 1997.

Note: The official version of a document is

the document published in the Federal

Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 8001.

Ricky T. Takai,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational

Research and Improvement.

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