Project Grant P031A230016

This Project Grant award of $1,150,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Comprehensive Centers Program (CFDA 84.283) to Loyola Marymount University. The funding will support the establishment of the Center on English Learners and Multilingualism, which will provide capacity-building services, training, professional development, and technical assistance to state, regional, and local educational agencies to improve...

The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded Technical Learning Centers Inc. a $404,091 Formula Grant under the Education Stabilization Fund (CFDA 84.425) program. The grant period runs from March 4, 2021 through March 3, 2022. As part of the Education Stabilization Fund program, which aims to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, Technical Learning Centers Inc. will utilize this Formula Grant funding to support related products and...

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses on developing an innovative approach called TEEM (Teaching to Empower) to engage students in learning analytics. The $305,953 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will integrate data science and data literacy education at the undergraduate level. Key activities include: Design-based research on active-learning analytics activities in data science courses to...

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 (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $344,869 to Tufts University to develop and implement professional development for Learning Assistants (LAs) to improve their facilitation of student learning in active learning STEM courses. The key objectives are to design and implement a new LA pedagogy course sequence based on recent research (Goal 1) and investigate how this pedagogy sequence impacts LA facilitation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) IUSE: EHR (CFDA #47.076) Project Grant award of $164,956 to Chico State Enterprises aims to quantify the relationship between teaching methods, student learning, and student attitudes in introductory geoscience courses. The project will design a series of lessons classified as teacher-centered, transitional, and student-centered based on classroom observation protocols. These lessons will be implemented at four institutions over multiple semesters, with...

This National Science Foundation STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award in the amount of $111,193 aims to improve teaching and learning in large introductory physics courses through the use of Learning Assistants (LAs). The project, which involves investigators at Seattle Pacific University, University of Washington Bothell, and Western Washington University, will develop a model for training LAs to effectively elicit and build on students' diverse science ideas. This approach,...

The 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. This grant will fund 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 through...

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...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $354,105 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on October 1, 2024 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", aims to improve student achievement through comprehensive teacher preparation and professional development initiatives....