Project Grant 11BIHTN001

Best Buddies International Inc. received a two-year, $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program (CFDA 84.215) to support the BEST BUDDIES IN MARYLAND 03 INCLUSION PROJECT. The project focuses on providing school-based programs in Miami, Florida that promote inclusion, leadership development, and friendship for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Innovative Approaches to Literacy program aims to...

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded $331,000 to Best Buddies International, Inc. under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy federal grant program (CFDA 84.215) to support the Best Buddies in Maine Inclusion Project. The two-year project grant, effective August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024, will fund school-based programs in Miami, Florida that promote inclusion, leadership development, and friendship for students with intellectual and...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded $215,000 to Best Buddies International, Inc. under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy federal grant program (CFDA 84.215) to support the Best Buddies in Delaware Inclusion Project. The two-year project grant, awarded August 1, 2022 and set to be completed by July 31, 2024, will fund school-based programs in Miami, Florida that promote inclusion, leadership development, and friendship for students with...

The federal Project Grant award of $6,461,560.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program (CFDA 84.411) supports the "Bouncy Ready to Learn Program" delivered by the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The grant, awarded on January 1, 2025, will fund the creation, development, implementation, replication, and scaling of...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,942 in funding to Learn Collaborate Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an AI-powered collaborative project-based learning (CPBL) software platform. The platform is designed to address the workforce skills gap by enabling project-based learning activities that seamlessly integrate real-world projects with academic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $212,983 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop and disseminate self-contained interactive exercises using web-based programming environments. These exercises aim to introduce formal methods concepts from computer science to students across various STEM disciplines, including computer science, bioinformatics, computer...

This $599,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to explore the cognitive processes and educational experiences that shape human capacity for tool innovation. The research project aims to deepen the understanding of how innovation develops and how it can be nurtured, particularly in the context of advancing technology. The investigators will use...

This $393,616 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of the Experiments as a Service Infrastructure (EASI) by Carnegie Learning Inc. The EASI enables randomized experiments comparing alternative digital learning experiences and analyzing resulting data to improve future student experiences. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the five-year award beginning August 1, 2022 will support three complementary research areas. First,...

The School Board of Broward County, Florida received a $525,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to implement the "ART & TECH: CREATING 3-DIMESION ZONES (3DZ)" program. This grant, funded through the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (CFDA 84.215) program, supports the development and improvement of literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12th grade in high-need local educational agencies and...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $9,398,638 Education Innovation and Research (CFDA 84.411) project grant to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to scale and sustain a professional learning program that supports positive acceleration for early-career teachers. The project aims to refine, scale, test, and sustain a teacher professional learning program based on Teachstone's MyTeachingPartner-Secondary...