News from the Alignment Nashville Elementary Oversight Committee:

If your organization works with MNPS elementary students, please read this message. Otherwise, it probably will not apply to you. Thanks!

The Alignment Nashville Elementary Committee invites your organization to respond to a NEW Invitation To Participate (ITP) for the Alignment Nashville Elementary Character Education Program. The due date has been extended to July 10, 2009.

If you responded to an ITP prior to May 1, 2009, please do so again. We don’t want this process to take a great deal of time, so keep it very simple. In your own words, just tell us what you do that supports Character Education of MNPS elementary students. Click here and complete as much as you can on the form.

What if Character Education is not the main focus of your organization?

No Problem. Please respond anyway. You may be a group like Book’em, whose mission is related to children’s literacy. Book’em supports character education by training reading role model volunteers, who read aloud to elementary classrooms, to incorporate the Alignment Nashville character education traits into their time with students.

What is in it for you?

When your response is approved your organization will be:

• Included in a published Character Education Resource Guide provided to elementary school administrators and counselors
• Invited to participate in a Character Education Community Fair allowing you to network with elementary school administrators and counselors
  If funding becomes available through Alignment Nashville, your organization will be eligible to apply for the funding

What happens next?

Your response to the ITP will be reviewed by the Alignment Nashville Elementary Oversight Committee for approval.

The committee will be looking at your organization’s:

1. Description of services and locations of services to be delivered;
2. Capacity to deliver these services;
3. Description of plans to document activities and outputs, as well as to measure the outcomes of your program.

We will notify you by August 28, 2009 of your proposal’s outcome.

Please share this information with other groups that you think may be working with MNPS elementary students during school and/or outside of school. If you have any questions about this, feel free to contact me, Melissa Spradlin, at 255-1820 or ceo@bookem-kids.org. Thank you. – Melissa