1. Project SUCCESS in Language and Literacy Instruction
A Title III National Professional Development Program

2. Project Partners Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Dr. Georgeanne Warnock
Associate Superintendent
Olivia Perez
Director, Bilingual and ESL
Dr. Patty Parker
Director, Assessment & Accountability
Susan Kelly
Director, Elementary Language Arts
Dr. Shirley Wright
Director, Language Arts Research & Assessment

3. Project Partners The Latino Family Literacy Project
Region 10 Education Service Center
Osborne Education Services
Enrique Jolay
Consultant
Independent Consultant
Katherine del Campo
Consultant
Dawn Osborne
Consultant
IDRA
IDRA
Anna De Leon
Consultant
David Hinojosa
Consultant
Paula Johnson
Consultant

4. Project UNT Faculty and Students

5. GRANT AWARD
Project SUCCESS won a competitive award of $2,709,123 from September 1, to August 31, 2022 from the Office of English Acquisition of the USDOE. The amounts will be released for availability on a yearly basis based on progress made:
Year 1: $526, 607 available for spending now until August 31, 2018
• Year 2: 549,881
• Year 3: 549,844
• Year 4: 548,917
• Year 5: 533,884
As fiscal agent, UNT will operate the grant from the Bilingual/ESL Teacher Education Office in Denton under the direction of Dr. Rossana Boyd. Her office staff will coordinate activities with partner representatives and with the two full time employees that UNT will hire to work in Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD.

6. Overall Five Year Impact
20 CFBISD schools will participate:
Blair, Blanton, Carrollton, Central, Davis, Farmers Branch, Furneaux, Good, Kent, Landry, Las Colinas, McWorther, Rainwater, Riverchase, Sheffield, Stark, McLaughlin/Strickland and Thompson.
290 teachers will receive professional development:
75, PK-2 regular classroom teachers (15 schools, 3 each each)
50, 5th and 6th grade dual language teachers
50, 5th and 6th grade science and social studies content teachers 40, 3rd grade literacy teachers
75, UNT Bilingual and ESL pre-service teachers

7. Priorities of Project SUCCESS
Improve instruction for English Learners.
Improve English learners’ parent, family, and community engagement.
Research English Learners’ academic outcomes after participating in small group instruction. Quasi experimental study.

8. Goals and Objectives of the Project
Goal 1: Prepare bilingual and English as a second language teachers to meet the needs of English learners in grades EC-6.
Objective 1. Each year of the project, 15 pre-service teachers will be prepared at the University of North Texas as EC-6 bilingual or English as a second language teachers with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to serve English learners.

9. Goals and Objectives of the Project
Goal 2: Improve literacy instruction and family engagement skills of in-service teachers serving English learners in grades PK to 6th in Carrolton Farmers Branch Independent School District.
Objective 1. Each year of the project, 15 teachers of English learners in grades PK to 2 will participate in professional development on how to engage Latino families in literacy activities with their children.

10. Goals and Objectives of the Project
Goal 2: Improve literacy instruction and family engagement skills of in-service teachers serving English learners in grades PK to 6th in Carrolton Farmers Branch Independent School District.
Objective 2. Each year 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the project, 10 3rd grade in-service teachers will participate in a treatment group of a quasi-experimental research study.

11. Goals and Objectives of the Project
Goal 2: Improve literacy instruction and family engagement skills of in-service teachers serving English learners in grades PK to 6th in Carrolton Farmers Branch Independent School District.
Objective 3. Each year of the project, 20, 5th and 6th grade in-service teachers of ELs will participate in professional development to improve their instruction.

12. Contact Information
UNT Project SUCCESS Contacts
Dr. Rossana Boyd
Project Director
1155 Union Circle #
Denton, TX
Anita Peña Deschner
Project Coordinator
UNT Project SUCCESS in CFBISD Contacts
Esperanza Hilts
Project Facilitator
1820 Pearl Street
Carrollton, TX 75006
Teresa Anaya Troncoso
Family and Community Liaison