Personalized Competency Based Learning (PCBL) Grant Program LEA Plan Recommendations April 8, 2021 Background: Code: 53-F-5-501 Signed into law 3/17/2021: HB 181 Board Rule: R277-712

The Personalized Competency Based Learning (PCBL) Grants Program has been created to improve educational outcomes in public schools by advancing student mastery through the following core principles:

● Students are empowered daily to make important choices about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning. ● Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence. ● Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs. ● Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time. ● Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing. ● Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems. ● Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and disposition) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.

The PCBL Advisory Committee reviewed LEA submissions in February and March, according to an established rubric, and recommends the plans on the following page for approval by the Utah State Board of Education. All recommended plans can be accessed by clicking on the LEA’s name in the table.

LEA Plans Recommended for Approval:

Implementation Grant (phase 2) Planning Grant (phase 1)

Cohort B Amount Cohort C Amount July 2021-June 2023 *Up to $400,000/2yrs. July 2021-June 2022 *Up to $100,000/1 yr.

City Academy Year 1: $189,291.82 Canyons School $100,000 Year 2: $197,870.66 District

Ogden City School Year 1: $200,000 Freedom Preparatory $93,312.50 District Year 2: $200,000 Academy Spectrum Academy Year 1: $200,000 Granite School $95,196 Year 2: $200,000 District Washington County Year 1: $159,840.39 $100,000 School District Year 2: $159,840.39 Weber School Year 1: $196,120.59 North Sanpete School $97,773 District Year 2: $203,772.55 District Walden School $100,000

FYI – Cohort A: Cohort A LEAs were already approved by the Board and are currently finishing the first year of their two-year PCBL Implementation Grant award. FY22 will be their second and final year of the implementation phase of the grant program. They will be eligible to apply for “expansion grant” funding in FY23 as part of the third and final phase of the PCBL grant program (pending Legislative funding and the successful implementation of their approved plan).

Cohorts A LEAs include: American Academy of Innovation Davis School District Iron County School District Murray School District