Title I Funding for Schools

Leaps helps school districts meet Title I requirements, improving outcomes for lower-achieving students

Below are some of the key requirements for Title I funding for schools. We have shared information about how Leaps can help meet those requrements throughout the school year.  If you have any questions about how this works, send us an email.

Title I Requirement:
Meet the educational needs of low-achieving children in our Nation’s highest-poverty schools, limited English proficient children, migratory children, children with disabilities, Indian children, neglected or delinquent children, and young children in need of reading assistance.

How Leaps Is Aligned:
Leaps has a broad collection of assessment tools that teachers and adminstrators use to measure and assess key areas of educational need for low-achieving students. Our classroom challenges tool helps teachers monitor and address specific issues by student or in groups and the system provides suggested lessons based on the specific situation in that classroom. Further, Leaps also provides intervention and fidelity reporting by student, class and school, giving administrators a bird’s eye view of how things are managed district-wide.

Title I Requirement:
Close the achievement gap between high- and low-performing children, especially the achievement gaps between disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers. 

How Leaps Is Aligned:
Leaps is a key building block for equity-focused curriculum and tools that can help schools meet this funding requirement. Our lessons, assessments and reporting tools give teachers and administrators important insights as to where gaps may be occuring between student groups. Our schools are able to look at their school data broken down by all manner of data, including any demographic information they decide to track, including race and ethnicity, Free or Reduced Lunch, English Language Learners, and other data points, across each student’s experience in school.

Title I Requirement:
Afford parents substantial and meaningful opportunities to participate in the education of their children.

How Leaps Is Aligned:

Leaps provides many pathways for increasing family engagement in their children’s schools. Our assessments can help teachers better understand current levels of family participation in the education of their children. Parents are also able to be more easily involved in their child’s academic performance and behavior at school through “Go Home” materials, parent assessment tools and more.  Leaps allows school administrators to nurture a culture of elevated parental involvement, engaging parents in a variety of methods to participate in support of their students. 

Title I Requirement:
Significantly elevate the quality of instruction by providing staff in participating schools with substantial opportunities for professional development.

How Leaps Is Aligned:

Leaps provides teachers and faculty with professional development opportunities on a regular basis with free training, live webinars and live support channels staffed by professionals ready and able to answer questions and advice as needed. Leaps includes robust reporting and resources for adminstrators to monitor staff use of the tools as well, with fidelity reporting as well as insights into what’s working and where gaps may be occuring. Leaps makes it easy for teams, coaches, and educator evaluators to engage teachers in data inquiry and to develop individualized professional learning and development based on teachers’ strengths and areas for improvement.

Title I Requirement:
Provide greater decision-making authority and flexibility to schools and teachers in exchange for greater responsibility for student performance.

How Leaps Is Aligned:

Leaps provides classroom-level, school-level, and district-level reports that provide teachers and school leaders with individualized data they can use to improve their support for student performance. Our analytics provide results that take into account each student’s experience and response to learning and allows for reporting that can be viewed separate from other student data points like gender, race and ethnicity, and FRPL status.

Additional Sources on this topic:

• Title I Guide for Parent and Community Engagement
• Department of Education’s Information on Title I (PDF)
• Council of Chief State School Officers’ Guide to Title I (PDF)