I got my grant from WERA!

Back in early January I applied for a grant from the Washington Educational Research Association, aka WERA, to fund an idea I have to study how Response to Intervention is implemented in my school.

Just getting the darned thing turned in was an adventure. I was working on two different computers at the time, wrote what I thought was a really good application, put it on my thumb drive, took it home to work on it some more....and it wasn't there. Stupidly, I had saved it to the thumb drive proper instead of the hard drive, so when it corrupted I was left with one crap file and an ulcer.

So I tried to recreate what I had done the first time around, all the while thinking that there was no way to get it done the right way. I finished what I was able to, proofread, decided it had to be good enough, and mailed it in just under the deadline.

Lo and behold, I got the grant anyways! The letter came in the mail today letting me know I had won, and man is it ever a good feeling. Right now we're creating a ton of data; this grant will give me the time to actually sit down with the data from every grade level, develop interventions, and make sure they're meaningful. I think it's got a real chance to put us on the right track for years to come, if I do it right, and that's a neat thing.

Slowly but surely, I'm morphing into Jenny D or Ken. It's a new challenge, and I think it'll be a lot of fun.