PT Receives $75,000 in Governor's Expanding Excellence Grant Program
Peters Township School District has been named as one of 17 districts from across Pennsylvania to receive the Governor’s Expanding Excellence Grants. The District will receive a total of $75,000 for programs at Peters Township High School, Peters Township Middle School and Pleasant Valley Elementary. The goal of this program is to pair high-performing schools with low-performing schools to increase overall student achievement.
Eligibilty for the grant was based on a score of 90 or higher on the 2012-13 School Performance Profile. Applicants were required to analyze strategies, processes and techniques, and design research-based models or training tools that can be used by schools across the state to improve student performance.
Pleasant Valley Elementary will share strategies around student data collection and how the building utilizes data meetings to foster academic success. Peters Township Middle School focused on the area of math/algebra proficiency and the use of a scheduled math lab to provide individual student support. At Peters Township High School, the focus was on college readiness and strategies to bolster achievement in advanced placement exams, ACT and the SAT.
Staff from each building will serve as mentors in the program and will share their work with their peers at the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators and the Pennsylvania School Boards Association’s School Leadership Conference in October, and during the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Standards Aligned System Institute in December.
Read more about the program on PA.gov