Learning Point Associates

We realize that many of the resources that currently exist may not meet your specific needs. Where we can, Learning Point Associates will try to create resources to better assist you in navigating the resources and requirements of the ARRA. Please contact us to let us know what you need. Your ideas and suggestions will help guide our work.

• NEW! Systems and Strategies to Address the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers. Presentations included an overview of the research, information about the requirements and potential funding through ARRA that can be used to address the inequitable distribution of teachers, and a discussion of useful resources from the TQ Center (archived webinar from May 21, 2009).
• NEW! Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: A Workshop Connecting Research to Policy and Practice (archived materials from workshop held April 28-29, 2009).
• NEW! The TQ Center has a new interactive mapping tool for regional comprehensive centers and state education agency staffs to dialogue on strategic applications of ARRA funds to improve teacher effectiveness and equitable distribution.
• NEW! The Education Stimulus: Too Big to Fail.  Learning Point Associates and Mission Measurement interviewed more than 50 education leaders to determine how they are defining successful implementation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. We explored what impact these leaders expect this funding to have on the educational system. We offer considerations for building metrics to monitor success and impact that we derive from our findings.
• NEW! Stimulus Funding Questions and Answers Part 2 provides answers on questions related to afterschool funding, high schools, and other issues including student achievement and investing for the long term.
• Managing Educator Talent, a service that provides solutions-based approaches for states and districts to reach the goals of teacher quality and equitable distribution
• Leveraging Stimulus Funds for Lasting Change
  • Archived one-hour Learning Point Associates webcast from April 8, 2009
    (A PowerPoint presentation without narrator is also available.)
  • Background Information on Federal Guidance—A prewebcast on the distribution and use of education-related stimulus funds. (A PowerPoint presentation without narrator is also available.)
• Start at the Top: How Central Office Reform Is Improving Student Achievement. Archived one-hour Learning Point Associates webcast from March 25, 2009, and related resources.
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Opportunities and Strategies to Advance Teacher Effectiveness. A Special Report of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center).
• Highlights of ARRA Funding Opportunities for Districts
• Letter from the CEO
• Fund Finder: Identifies total distribution of funds to your state.
• April 1st Conference Call Summary on ARRA Funding
• Side-by-side comparison
  The ARRA contains various provisions that permit the U.S. Department of Education to reserve funds for administration and oversight. This table assumes that the Department of Education will reserve the full amount permissible and will adjust each funding stream appropriately, and thus our figures may differ from those in other tables that have been produced.