1. Instructional Resources
Specialists:
Hector Arancibia
José A. Jarquín

2. Budget Handbook Page A-39
Supplemental Instructional Materials (SIM) … Supplement the instructional program (ELA, mathematics, history/social science, science) and are not required by the core curriculum. SIM are specific to the classroom, delivery of instruction, and intervention. Examples include
Classroom library books
Supplemental publisher workbooks
Realia such as visuals (maps, charts)
Manipulatives
Science kits (labs)
Instructional CDs, Videos, DVDs (not blank)
Flashcards
Periodicals
Initial Software License fees
Educational Apps
Leveled Readers
Classroom set of novels not on the District required reading list

3. Budget Handbook Page A-36
Software Licenses Maintenance … funds to pay for maintaining internet-based publications and materials that supplement the core instructional program and are specific only to the classroom, delivery of instruction, and intervention, as well as periodic costs of licensing, support, or maintenance agreements for non-equipment items, such as software.
First time purchase of new software and/or operating systems for instructional or dedicated Title I purposes will need to be purchased in the Supplemental Instructional Material expenditure line (SIM). New software and/or operating systems are not allowable with federal funds for non-instructional purposes.

4. Budget Handbook Page A-39
General Supplies … Expenditures for General Supplies are restricted to items of equipment with a total final cost of less than $500 (including tax, shipping and other ancillary charges) when funded with Title I resources. These items may be used in the classrooms and parent centers. Examples include laptops, iPads, iPods, netbooks, LCD projectors, printers, graphing calculators, Chromebooks, keyboards, document cameras, e-readers, etc.
All other general supplies expenditures remain unallowable when funded with Title I resources.

5. Budget Handbook Page A-40
Items appearing in the District’s Supplies and Equipment Catalog are general supplies and, therefore, cannot be funded with Title I resources.
Exception
Allowable Instructional Tools from the General Stores Warehouse Under SIM (Commitment Code ) 

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Activity
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Allowed in Title I (SIM)
Not allowed in Title I

7. 1
The Pedestal fan and ergonomics chair guarantee to keep our Title I coordinator happy and comfortable during the Single Plan for Student Achievement and budget development processes.

8. 2
Lexia Reading is a technology-based program that will increase reading proficiency. ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. The school will buy both programs for the first time and they are described in the school’s single plan.

9. 3
To comply with parental involvement activities and build capacity with our parent groups, our school will generate parent communiques in English and the family’s primary language in the form of newsletters, flyers, and brochures. Title I mandated meetings include: School Site Council training and monthly meetings, Annual Title I Meeting, Math and Science Nights, and Parents in Control workshop.

10. 4
To comply with California Education Code Section §32286(a), our school prepared a school safety plan. Our School Safety Plan states that every classroom must have an emergency backpack to treat at-risk students in case of an emergency. The rug not only prevents potential injuries during our emergency drills, but provides learning opportunities to our at-risk math students.

11. 5
Our school will use Title I funds to purchase classroom library sets and calculators to supplement English Language Arts and math instruction of our low-achieving students as stated in our Single Plan for Student Achievement.

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Lego Mindstorms and protractors.
The Robotics course is an elective course offered three periods a day to our school population that targets the at-risk students by giving them a more hands on approach to learning math and science. Our at-risk percentage is over 70% of our school population. The courses are designed to give the at-risk students access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

13. 7
Our needs assessment and analysis of data demonstrates that our most at-risk students need graphing calculators (30) and laptops (30) to use with ALEKS and Lexia Reading. The School Site Council approved the Single Plan for Student Achievement Update, so our office manager used Supplemental Instructional Materials to purchase these items (Commitment Code ).