Request for Proposal (RFP): ARP EANS: Professional Development

The Approved Mississippi Regional Education Services Agencies (RESA) administering the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools (EANS) hereby invites qualified and experienced providers to submit proposals for professional development that includes coaching services for teachers, leaders, and other instructional staff, curriculum and assessment training in English Language Arts, Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, STEM, or standardized assessment such as ACT to participating non-public schools for the 2024-2025 school year and 2025-2026 school year until January 30, 2026

Approved RESA

• East Mississippi Center for Education Development
• Gulf Coast Education Initiative Consortium
• North Mississippi Education Consortium
• Southern Regional Educational Service Agency

The Scope of services shall include but not limited to:

• Provide training in job-embedded professional development for instructional staff in instruction inclusion students for all subjects within all grades, including but not limited to instructional coaching, data coaching, assessment coaching, lesson planning, lesson modeling, differentiated instruction, scaffolding and utilizing and identification of resources.
• Provide professional development through job-embedded coaching and workshops to include, but not limited to collaboration, research-based reading strategies and classroom management.
• Build the capacity of teachers with model analysis and use of data to prepare and guide instruction at the grade and student levels.
• Assist instructional staff with differentiation of classroom instruction based on the grade as a whole and individual student performance.
• Provide overall leadership support to the administrators and school officials.
• Provide any other professional development as identified by non-public school to improve academic outcomes for students and address learning loss.

The following non-public schools may select professional development services.

These services shall be provided to the non-public schools during the 2024-2025 school year. Upon satisfactory evaluation of the provided services, additional services may be extended to the 2025-2026 school term until January 30, 2026.

• Applicants must have consulted with educators for a minimum of three (3) years of experience providing educational consulting, training services, and materials.
• Applicants must comply with all applicable licensing and certification requirements specific for the proposed services.
• Evidence of previous work with high performing school and/or significant growth of school where tutoring services have been performed services.

• RESA is requesting that each interested vendor prepare a response to this proposal individually by eligible non-public schools. For example, the vendor must provide five (5) separate proposals to serve five (5) of the non-public schools. Each response must include the following:
  • Proposal Cover Page
  • Assurances and Signature Form
  • Independent Contractor Debarment Verification Form

The Evaluation Committee will consist of 5 members from the selected non-public school. It shall review all documents submitted. It may also, at its discretion, conduct in-person interviews with the Proposers submitting the highest-scoring proposal(s). The RESA reserves the right to select from proposals alone.

The following scoring will be used to evaluate the proposals (100 points maximum)

1. Relevant Mississippi experience with school facility projects. (30 pts)
2. Experience with providing instructional consulting and improving academic outcomes. (15 pts)
3. Experience in working with administrators, teachers, and students. (10 pts)
4. References from previous projects. (15 pts)
5. Ability to work within the compact time period. (10 pts)
6. Fee structure (20pts)

After consideration of the proposals by the Evaluation Committee and approval by the RESA, the contract award offer will be made to the Proposer.

Any questions, comments, or request for clarification pertaining to this RFP should be emailed to Mrs. Susan Scott at sscott@olemiss.edu no later than August 2nd by 11:59 p.m. Emails will not be responded to, rather, all questions and answers will be posted below for public viewing no later than August 6, 2024 by 10 a.m.

The RESA reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to determine appropriate and adequate responses to these written comments, questions, and requests for clarification.