1. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Striving Reader Review Room Technical Assistance Sessions The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant funding is intended to improve reading performance of students from birth through grade twelve.

2. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org What is Review Room? Review room is an online data management system that will allow us to do all of our grant development and management in one location. It allows us to set up work flow so that you will upload and manage your grant development and then we will manage the review. 2

3. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Review Room Link The URL is: gastrivingreader12.myreviewroom.com/gastrivingreader12.myreviewroom.com/ 3

4. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Create your Log-in You will need to create a log-in for your district If you do not have an account, click on the Need an Account? link and follow the on screen prompts You will use your district email and create a password before creating school profiles. 4

5. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Microsoft Outlook Systems using MO have encountered issues receiving the emails from Review Room Make sure your network servers are not blocking emails ending with @myreviewroom.com Add the @myreviewroom.com to your white list 5

6. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Create your district profile As the district administrator, you will develop the district profile. You will use the access code to begin development of this. The District Access code is: (it is case sensitive) SRCL2012GAdistrict 6

7. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Need an Account? 7 Fill out the sections and then click on “Category” to choose either District or School

8. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org 8 Once you have filled out the sections and filled in the appropriate access code, click on Register to begin filling out district and/or school profiles

9. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org 9 Once the registration process is complete you will be prompted to check your email to find the link to take you to your account

10. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org 10

11. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org 11 Fill out the name of the District or School here Choose category here Click here to move on

12. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org 12 You will be prompted once again to enter the district or school access code

13. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org You made it! 13 Click here to begin filling out the district profile All supplemental files can be found here in the Resources tab

14. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org After the district profile is created You will send the school access code to a school/center contact that will begin development of the school profile. Each school will develop their own profile, but as the district contact you must pre-populate the school or center that will develop a grant. 14

15. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Create your school profile You will need the School Access code SRCL2012School (case sensitive) 15

16. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org What’s Next? Once all of your district and school profiles are created you will automatically gain access to the full application, conflict of interest and disclosure policy, and grant assurances** Begin working on the application being sure to submit it by December 14, 2012. 16

17. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Technical Assistance Contact Joshua Todd or Julie Morrill Also, as part of our agreement with Review Room, you have 24/7 access to technical assistance from them as well You can reach them at support@myreviewroom.com support@myreviewroom.com 17

18. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org IMPORTANT! Once you move from the District and School profile stages into the Full Application, you cannot return to the District and School profiles Once you move into the Full Application, DOE staff can no longer assist you with technical issues within the full application (uploading documents, typing in text boxes, etc.) to avoid conflict of interest issues 18

19. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Full Application All supplemental files can be found here in the Resources tab Application progress You may also click on these links to access the required document 19

20. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org 20 Click on Browse command to upload files Clicking on Next will take you to the second page of the application Be sure to SAVE regularly!

21. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Upload or Fill out 21 For each section you will be given the option to either Upload the section or Fill it out

22. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Upload 22 Should you click on the upload command a Browse box will drop down and you can submit your documents there The instructions under each heading can also be located in the General Application Information document

23. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Fill it out 23 Should you click on the fill it out command a text box will drop down and you can type your response there Notice the word counter located at the bottom of each text box.

24. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Miscellaneous You cannot cut/paste graphs and charts into the text boxes. While you can revisit a previously filled out section of the application to make edits to text boxes or uploads, you cannot go forward to a subsequent page without completing the current page on which you are working 24

25. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Next Steps Begin working on Needs Assessment/Literacy Plan for your district Begin working on the application in your schools and districts Try to complete the grant prior to December 14 th so we can take care of any submission snafus before the last minute deadline 25

26. Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” www.gadoe.org Striving Reader Team Julie Morrill- Program Manager – jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us jmorrill@doe.k12.ga.us 404-425-2975 404-657-8318 Beverly Cox- Program Specialist – bcox@doe.k12.ga.us bcox@doe.k12.ga.us Joshua Todd- Program Specialist – jtodd@doe.k12.ga.us jtodd@doe.k12.ga.us Joyce Kelley- Accounting/Support – jkelley@doe.k12.ga.us jkelley@doe.k12.ga.us – 404-656-2093 26