Common use of BACKGROUND AND GOALS Clause in Contracts

BACKGROUND AND GOALS. The Oregon Open Learning Hub (“the Hub”) was launched May 2020, during emergency school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hub is intended to encourage collaboration and resource sharing among educators in Oregon, both during the pandemic and beyond. This grant project has been designed to leverage OER and the Hub to better serve Oregon’s students. By analyzing traditional data (i.e., state assessment) and incorporating anecdotes and experience, we know that students who are emergent bilingual are largely underserved throughout the state. This project aims to provide equitable access to high quality materials for educators, school staff, and other education partners. We believe this is an opportunity to provide professional learning and begin building partnerships that lead to the development of sharable, high quality materials that center students who are emergent bilingual. Using the Hub and OER to share the products of this work means that the reach will spread beyond the educators who participate in this grant project. Resources identified as high quality through this process will be shared and highlighted on the Hub for all educators across the state to access and use with their students. Resources can also easily be shared across the nation, allowing Oregon to share with and benefit from national workgroups. The 2021-22 OER Development Grant: Supporting Students who are Emergent Bilingual (“the OER Development Grant Project”) is an eight-month long project which will include three (3) Phases. In Phase One of this Project, participants will learn about OER, the Oregon Open Learning Hub (“the Hub”), Oregon’s collaboration space and repository for K-12 OER, and strategies that support students who are emergent bilingual and how these strategies can be included in OER. Additionally, they will select an OER lesson or lessons to revise to include strategies that support students who are emergent bilingual. Phase Two of this Project will focus on piloting the resources with students, and Phase Three will include a final evaluation of the resources revised throughout this process.