Project Grant 90NB0017

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Office under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032). The grant will fund the Ojibwe Language Education and Apprenticeship Project to preserve the Ojibwe language and cultural practices. KBIC will train and mentor a tribal member to become a fluent Ojibwe language instructor through an apprenticeship with their current...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $368,295 Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program grant titled "CAREER: SUPPORTING TEACHERS TO LEVERAGE STUDENTS' LANGUAGES IN MATHEMATICS" to North Carolina State University (NC State). This project partners with a public middle school to co-design, analyze, and improve teachers' "translanguaging pedagogies" - instructional approaches that draw on students' full linguistic repertoires as resources for mathematics...

The Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to conduct the "Koo At Latouwx Has Naxsatee, Let Them Be Teachers" project from June 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The primary goal of the project is to increase the Tlingit language proficiency of 10 Tlingit language teachers through 116 total...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $122,654 to the University of California, Irvine to document the home and community storytelling practices of Mexican-American bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The research aims to (1) provide documentation of storytelling practices and styles for...

The federal Project Grant award of $900,000 from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs' Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) will support the Hoopa Valley Tribe's efforts to develop family-based Hupa language activities, create a website to archive language materials and share lessons, provide Hupa language teacher training and credentialing, and establish a Hupa language immersion nest for children aged 18 months to 5 years. The project, titled "Bringing Hupa...

The Kagman Elementary School Immersion Language Project received a $311,939 Formula Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2024 through the Promote the Survival and Continuing Vitality of Native American Languages program (CFDA 93.587). The CNMI Public School System will deliver language immersion and preservation services to promote the survival...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will use a $164,792 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to continue and expand an Umatilla language immersion preschool program and develop curriculum and teaching materials. The program aims to revitalize the critically endangered Umatilla language, of which only three fluent speakers remain. Services include a four-hour preschool with 50%...

The Cultural Heritage Improves Learning and Development (CHILD) Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education through the Alaska Native Educational Programs grant program (CFDA 84.356), aims to prepare Alaska Native preschool students in partnership schools to be kindergarten ready. The $3.042 million project grant was awarded to the Bristol Bay Borough School District on September 30, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on September 29,...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $298,825 Project Grant under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to The Klamath Tribes in Chiloquin, Oregon. The three-year grant will fund a language immersion program focused on the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Paiute languages. The program will serve approximately 300 students in Klamath County, Oregon using the Total Physical Response learning model to support language acquisition and cultural engagement...