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SFSF funding


This funding is awarded to the state Governors by the U. S. Department of Education based on a commitment to advance essential education reforms to benefit students from early learning through post-secondary education. Close to $48.6Bn is being made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Suggested uses of the fund

  • Improving Teacher effectiveness
    • Teacher training
    • Teacher Evaluation and effectiveness measurement
  • Establishing data systems and using data for improvement
    • Data systems that provide teachers information on student progress
    • Train educators to use data for decision-making
    • Implement online standards based Individual Education Programs
  • Turning around low-performing schools
    • Launch new instructional programs and additional learning time
    • Offer summer programs that boost student programs
  • Improving results for all students
    • Strengthen early learning
    • Technology to improve teaching & learning
    • Create accelerated tracks to college such as early college
    • Invest in school modernization

If you want to know how much of this fund is allocated to your state and how to apply for this fund, please click the following:
Funds allocated for now,
Funds allocated for summer 2009
If you are already familiar with the process please look at the array of products and services we offer to effectively spend this fund to improve childhood education.

Solutions that will help you achieve your funding goals

Pinnacle Analytics

Any data, anywhere, anytime... that’s the promise and the power of Pinnacle Analytics. Knowledge management was never so simple or effective: high-speed associations occur as the user clicks in the various chosen data objects, utilizing millions of records from multiple data sources with immediate visual results. Your district will be able to swiftly and easily determine what its strengths and weaknesses are and ensure that every child is given opportunities to fulfill their learning potential.

Pinnacle Professional Development

You can’t always double your staff, but you can double their effectiveness. Protect your valuable teacher capital now, by bringing real-time professional development to your staff. Our programs address all four essential areas of reform, by providing job-embedded, on-demand PD that:

  • Improves teacher effectiveness
  • Develops 21st Century teaching skills of teachers
  • Delivers research-based practices on school improvement
  • Brings real value to the idea of data in the hands of teachers

Pinnacle Student Information System

Not all information systems are made equal and Pinnacle puts the “student” back into Student Information Systems. Pinnacle knows standards, and knows how to manage virtual and traditional classrooms in harmony. Scheduling classes based on student performance will also help to increase it and the non-traditional schedules maintained by the Pinnacle SIS give digital-age learners and teachers a more flexible and productive classroom environment, increasing in individualization and creative teaching strategies.

Pinnacle Curriculum and Assessment Support

Bringing all of your school's best practice together in concert is a proven way to increase student achievement. Curriculum and Assessment Management can finally organize all of your classrooms around a common curriculum-instruction-assessment-analysis model, furthering your differentiated instructional goals and empowering an educational community. Seamless integration of data provides a robust cache of information for individual students, classes or schools so that administrators know at all times the status of district curriculum and instructional strategies, and their impact on academic success.

Pinnacle Gradebook

The industry leader in standards based grading and assessment management, the Pinnacle gradebook truly delivers on the promise of transforming traditional classroom grading into a 21st century three-dimensional view of student progress. From the ultra-traditional to the leading edge of reform, this gradebook proves that transition is possible when the power of student performance data is allowed to drive the learning process.

Pinnacle Supplemental Education

Learning has always been real-time, all the time, and yet school is only sometimes, 7 hours during the weekday. Bring real-time and learning back together again with education delivered completely online by your own staff, with your own curriculum, to all your students in need of a little extra help.

Pinnacle Suite

The Pinnacle Suite supports school improvement with a single end-to-end solution that implements standards-based learning by aligning curriculum and assessments with transformative instructional practices for digital-age educators and learners. Through a fully integrated suite of products, processes and services, Pinnacle provides schools and districts a framework for systemic, sustainable change.

  • Academic Leaders have the information they need to equitably manage standards-based curriculum, instruction and assessments.
  • Teachers have the information they need to differentiate instruction for each student in order to improve learning outcomes and increase student achievement.
  • Students and Parents are empowered participants in the education cycle


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The dollar amounts shown on each page of ARRAfunding.com are based on data provided by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Congressional Research Service (CRS), or for specific states, that state’s education agency. In some cases the posted data are estimates, which may vary significantly from the actual amounts available. GlobalScholar is not responsible for the accuracy of the data shown and makes no representations or warranties about the availability to any entity of the funds described.