Project Grant P031R210002

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to infuse indigenous knowledge and perspectives into engineering education. The $399,930 project, awarded to Montana State University, will develop culturally responsive educational approaches and materials focused on the use of indigenous tipis to teach students about heat and fluid flow control. The project will analyze airflow through tipis from both Western and indigenous...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $173,044 to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to lead a 2-week residential institute for secondary social studies educators. The "Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" institute aims to expose teachers to new historical scholarship, primary sources, and instructional strategies for incorporating Native...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a conference that aims to address the persistent lack of integration of local ecological knowledge with Western STEM education. The $100,000 award, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024, will enable WestEd, a non-profit education research and service agency, to convene a group of Indigenous academic, community, and education leaders. Over three phases, the...

This $275,803 federal project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports the development of a digital curriculum that integrates indigenous knowledge into science education for Latinx students in dual language immersion middle school programs. The project, led by the University of Texas at San Antonio, will engage 11 teachers and 2,500 students across the southern United States. The digital curriculum and instructional...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports the "INDIGITIZE COMPUTER SCIENCE COALITION" project. The $300,000 award will be provided to the Tides Center, a nonprofit organization, to address disparities in computer science (CS) education for American Indian/Alaska Native (Indigenous) middle school students. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Culturally adapt existing CS content to create a...

The Oglala Lakota College received a $744,056 Project Grant award from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Indian Education -- Special Programs for Indian Children federal grant program (CFDA 84.299). The grant will support the delivery of preservice training and professional development services for educators from August 3, 2021 to August 2, 2023. The Indian Education -- Special Programs for Indian Children program aims to fund demonstration grants...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Navajo Preparatory School, Inc. 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). The grant, titled "Navajo Preparatory School Classroom Without Walls Leadership Program," supports the school's efforts...

The California State University, Channel Islands was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant program. The grant will support the development of an Indigenous Studies curriculum at CSU Channel Islands from September 2022 through August 2024. FIPSE aims to support innovative strategies to improve postsecondary instruction and expand educational...

This one-year, $199,995 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program will support a conference series that brings together teachers, researchers, education leaders, and instructional material designers to investigate how to best integrate the use of high-quality instructional materials with the benefits of localizing these materials to address students' contexts and backgrounds. The project aims to build knowledge about inclusive,...