Project Grant ARC20C20161

This federal Project Grant award of $354,105.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Teacher Quality Partnership (CFDA 84.336) Grants program. The grant, titled "TEACHING FOR RESILIENCE VIA UNDERSTANDING, SUPPORT, AND TRAUMA-INFORMED EDUCATION: PROJECT TRUSTED", will be implemented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The project aims to improve student...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,999,680 Project Grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop an "Intelligent, Adaptive Program with Just-in-Time Feedback for Preservice Teachers." This program aims to improve preservice teachers' evidence-based teaching practices, mathematical content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and teaching skills related to ratios and proportional relationships...

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of training modules in virtual reality to help teachers recognize and reduce bias in their classroom behaviors. Working with students and teachers at Cornell University and the University of North Texas as a sub-awardee, the grant recipients will prototype virtual reality environments that track teacher movements and compare actual...

The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education has awarded a $408,240 Project Grant to Texas State University under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence-Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428). The grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, aims to strengthen teacher preparation pipelines in underserved educational environments by developing, recruiting, preparing, supporting, placing, and retaining teachers for high-need local...

This Project Grant award of $550,089.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) supports the development and deployment of fully automated virtual-reality-based training modules for special education teachers. Over the 4-year program, the principal investigator at Vanderbilt University will collaborate with research teams at Mississippi State University and Utah State University to design,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant of $632,122 aims to develop curricular packages for teaching about teaching college mathematics and build understanding of the knowledge, skills, and communities that faculty who provide teaching-focused professional development (TPD) need to grow as provider-scholars and leaders. The project will assemble lessons from a library of TPD activities, create assessments of learning about teaching, and train new TPD...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program supports the development of the Tutor Engagement Assistant (TEA) system by The Washington University. The TEA system aims to improve the quality of teaching assistant-student interactions in computing courses through $400,722 in funding from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. Specifically, the TEA system will help undergraduate teaching assistants quickly debug student code and construct personalized problem...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,005,306 Project Grant to the Cal Poly Corporation, doing business as Cal Poly Partners, for the "CAL POLY INSPIRE: INNOVATIVE SUPPORT AND PREPARATION OF INCLUSIVE AND RESILIENT EDUCATORS" program. This grant, funded through the Teacher Quality Partnership (CFDA 84.336) program, aims to improve student achievement by enhancing the quality of prospective and new teachers through innovative...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $1,549,821 to the University of Delaware will develop and test the "Orienting Positive Emotions in New Educators for Mathematics (OPEN for Math)" professional learning program. The program aims to help beginning elementary teachers create equitable and positive mathematics classroom environments by supporting their ability to leverage the emotions they and their students experience when...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $706,588 project grant under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence—Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428) to College Unbound, a private non-profit university in Providence, Rhode Island. The grant will support the establishment of the Transformative Educator Pathways' Center of Excellence (TEP-CE), which aims to create a center of excellence for delivering equitable teacher preparation...