Project Grant H982301510241

The Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs awarded $207,978.02 to America-Mideast Educational And Training Services, Inc. (Amideast) through the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa federal grant program to conduct the RUN THE PCELT English Language Teacher Professional Certification Training Program. Under this Project Grant awarded on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of June 30, 2023, Amideast will provide professional certification training for four...

The University of Arizona, through its Arizona Board of Regents, received a $364,852 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education to support the Center for Arabic Study Abroad's advanced Arabic language and culture training program at the Qasid Institute in Jordan. The two-year project, funded through the Overseas Programs - Group Projects Abroad federal grant program (CFDA #84.021), will contribute to improved Arabic language instruction and area...

The York County School Division will receive $2 million through the Department of Defense Education Activity's Competitive Grants: Promoting K-12 Student Achievement at Military-Connected Schools program (CFDA 12.556) to implement a Technology Enhanced Language Learning program from September 2022 to May 2027. The program will leverage virtual reality technology to provide immersive language learning experiences for middle and high school students, including virtual simulations, culturally...

The Share Your Light Foundation Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs on September 1, 2021 to run a STEAM education program in the United Arab Emirates. The program will promote linkages between art and STEM education among UAE-based coding and dance students by creating an original dance and technology performance from August 2021 through March 2022. This award is funded through the Department of State's Investing in People in...

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Competitive Grants: Promoting K-12 Student Achievement at Military-Connected Schools (CFDA 12.556) program to Wayne County Public Schools in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The award, with a performance period from September 30, 2024, to May 31, 2029, will fund the World Language Advancement Readiness Program (WLARP) to address the academic, social, and emotional needs of the district's highly mobile...

The purpose of this $400,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (DOS/ECA) to Creative Associates International Inc. under the parent Educational Exchange, American Studies Institute federal grant program was to implement a United States-Algeria School Linkages Program in Algeria from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008. The US-Algeria School Linkages Program was a virtual exchange program that aimed to establish partnerships...

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...

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...

The Camden County Board of Education in Kingsland, Georgia was awarded a $3 million Project Grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity under the Competitive Grants: Promoting K-12 Student Achievement at Military-Connected Schools program. The grant will support the Camden County Schools' Passport World Language program, which aims to provide age-appropriate, proficiency-based instruction in multiple languages to approximately 9,123 students across 10 target schools in rural...