1. Letters of Commitment

3.  I need a letter of commitment yesterday…  We aren’t sure of what we will submit, but wanted to know if you are on board…  No problem, we’ll take care of all the details…  The teachers will love having paid work all summer and on weekends and holidays during the school year…

4.  We’ve made all the plans for you and your district’s staff and you don’t need to worry about a thing….  We’ll do our work behind the scenes and the principals and teachers won’t bother us at all…  We will let your research contact/IRB know about the research plans after we find out if the grant is funded…  We’ll pay the teachers

5.  We need to have the superintendent sign the sub-recipient agreement today. We begin the project tomorrow.  By the way, are all the teachers recruited?  We held the training and the teachers said they haven’t been paid…  Who will produce the monthly, quarterly, semester and annual reports on data that you don’t already collect?

6.  Share policies and procedures with partners  Complete a Decision Matrix with key information  Track the status of letters of commitment  Include key information in every letter

7.  The lead applicant and partners  Name of the grant competition  Name of the grant proposal, if available  The purpose of the initiative  Specific OCPS commitments  How the initiative aligns with OCPS strategic planning (why we support the proposal)

10. Jeannie Floyd, MA, GPC Acting Director, Grant Services & Data Projects Orange County Pubic Schools Jean.Floyd@ocps.net 407-317-3200, Ext. 2325