FY2023 Competition Pre-application webinar #1 – May 17, 2023 Review the PDF of the PowerPoint Presentation View additional information and resources on the How to Apply page.

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FY2020 Competition (ended) The Office of Indian Education hosted two Pre-Application Training Webinars for the State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) Grants to Tribal Educational Agencies Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for fiscal year (FY) 2020.

• Webinar #1:  Friday, June 12, 2020      Listen HERE.
• Webinar #2:  Wednesday, June 17, 2020    Listen HERE.

These trainings are for potential applicants interested in applying for grant funding under the STEP program. The first webinar is intended to provide potential applicants with background on the STEP Grant Program as well as an overview of the grant competition. During the webinar OIE will review the following topics: Application Requirements & Eligibility, Absolute Priorities, Competitive Preference Priority, Application Instructions, Federal Grant Application Systems, and Review of Resources. The second webinar highlights the relationship between selection criteria, program requirements and application requirements. The intent is to highlight the connection between key components when building a project narrative. A brief overview of the first webinar will also be included.

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IMPORTANT ONLINE LINKS FY2020 (ended):

• STEP NIA: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-06-01/pdf/2020-11729 (PDF)
• APPLICATION PACKAGE: https://www.grants.gov
• OIE WEBSITE: https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-indian-education/
• COMMON INSTRUCTIONS: Common Instructions for ED Discretionary Grants. (PDF)

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STEP Talking Circle – May 2023 In this Talking Circle APRs and budget revisions were discussed, providing grantees and opportunity to review their recently submitted APRs. Grantees also had an opportunity to share program activities with other grantees and discuss what the plan to do next.

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STEP Annual Performance Reporting (APR) Webinar 2023 This webinar provides guidance, tools, and resources for completing annual performance reporting for STEP grantees.

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STEP Talking Circle – January 2023 This Talking Circle allowed grantees to share any implementation challenges and connect with their peers.

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For prior event recordings please visit the STEP Playlist.

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STEP Talking Circle – October 2022 This STEP Talking Circle focused on APR updates and budget revisions and discussed work-based learning.

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STEP Talking Circle – September 2022 This STEP Talking Circle focused on APR Feedback, reporting and budget reminders, and work-based learning.

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Distance Learning Session 12: Virtual Share Fair – June 2021 This distance learning session provided an opportunity for grantee’s virtual learning programs to be highlighted and best practices and challenges to be shared. This session culminated the distance learning series for this year.

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Distance Learning Session 11: Student Engagement – May 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for increasing online student engagement through effective interactions and student choice featuring Google Keep, Edublogs, Book Creator, Spreaker, and Google Sites.

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Distance Learning Session 10: Games and More! – May 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating virtual games featuring Doozy, Flippity, Tiny Tap, Oodlü, and Goosechase.

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Distance Learning Session 9: Virtual Field Trips – April 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating and engaging students in online field trips featuring a multitude of resources for ready made field trips and custom created by you field trips.

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Distance Learning Session 8: Small Group Engagement – April 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for engaging students in small groups focusing on social, logistical, and motivational considerations.

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Distance Learning Session 7: Virtual Assessment – March 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for assessing learning virtually featuring Kahoot, Flipgrid, and Formative.

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Distance Learning Session 6: Audio and Video Recording – March 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating audio and video recordings featuring Vocaroo, Screencastify, Screencast-o-matic, Animoto, and Zoom.

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Distance Learning Session 5: Collaborating Online – February 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for collaborating virtually with students and staff featuring Edmodo and Google Classroom.

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Distance Learning Session 4: Engaging Students Offline – February 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for engaging students offline featuring the Yukon Koyukuk School District.

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Distance Learning Session 3: Communicating With Students and Families – January 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for effective virtual communication with families and students featuring Bloomz, ClassDojo, and Remind.

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Distance Learning Session 2: Surveys and Forms – January 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating and using surveys and forms featuring Google Forms and Survey Monkey.

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Distance Learning Session 1: Platforms – December 2020 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for using online learning platforms featuring Zoom and Google Meet.

Data Sharing Agreements – October 2021 This webinar walked through important considerations for developing collaborative partnerships and developing data sharing agreements including a general data sharing agreement template.

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Day 3: Data-Driven Decision Making – June 2021 The third session introduced the concept of data-driven decision making, how to integrate this into program planning and implementation, and how it works with logic models and evaluation.

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Day 2: Logic Models – June 2021 The second session in this three part series provided an opportunity to work through creating a logic model and how the logic model fits into program evaluation.

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Day 1: Logic Models – June 2021 The first session in this three part series provided an introduction to logic models, walks through how to create one, and provides a number of models and templates.

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: Part 1 An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. This is Part 1 of a two-part series.

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Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: Part 2 An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. This is Part 2 of a two-part series.