February 19, 2008
An SIIA Webcast

Speaker:
Braden Goetz, Group Leader, High School Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education

Learn how to translate current federal High School policies and programs into a market opportunity for your products and services. Please join USED and Capitol Hill veteran Braden Goetz as he shares lessons learned from the U.S. Department of Education's high school reform efforts, and discusses upcoming projects. Learn what funding is available, what criteria are used to select grantees, and what makes for a winning grant application. Programs under Mr. Goetz's direction include the Advanced Placement Incentive program, the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Initiative, the Smaller Learning Communities program, the Striving Readers Program, and the School Dropout Prevention Program. This webcast will provide an introduction for a related High School Reform session at the SIIA Ed Tech Government Forum, March 12-13 in Washington, DC.